Railway technology that is 118 years old and responsible for adding 45 minutes to a trip from Brisbane to Sydney has been updated, Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says.
German conglomerate Siemens is looking to end its participation in its joint venture with Japanese giant Fujitsu, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
It's not easy to get hardware designers and software developers in sync when it comes to developing a new computer architecture, according to Dave Patterson, one of the pioneers of the original RISC architecture.
Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost.
In a discouraging sign for the information technology industry, shipments of computers and related products dropped 10.5 percent from July to August, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday.
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In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.
Since Mac and Windows OSes now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?
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915 and 925 Express chips from Intel to debut in desktop PCs.
The Dell Optiplex 755 boasts strong performance for office demands in an attractive and convenient package.
It doesn't have many bells and whistles, but a powerful dual-core AMD processor lends the Dell Dimension E521 unexpected performance and strong bang for the buck.
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