Wireless tagging on its way to a shelf near you
SA MAY soon have stock theft and supply chain savings buttoned up with the widespread introduction of radio frequency identification (RFID) labels.
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One laptop per child starting pilots in South Africa and Nigeria
One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) is using a limited number of trial machines to run pilots to gain experience of how it will work in the local context.
Machines battle at robo-olympics
Robots from around the world will compete for supremacy in soccer, combat, sumo wrestling and other arenas beginning Friday at a machine version of the Olympics in San Francisco.
Android receptionist for hire
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. says that it had started renting out its “wakamaru” robots to work at the front desk of offices, hospitals and other places in need of the humanoid touch.
HP push PCs to the limit
They get electrocuted, stuck into freezing rooms, baked in desert-like heat, and thrown off trucks — and that is only some of the torture that computer giant Hewlett Packard puts its products through to test their limits.
PCs worldwide to top 1 billion by 2008
The number of personal computers in use worldwide will top one billion by the end of 2008.
Microsoft to send recycled computers to Africa
Software giant is to launch a huge programme to recycle computers
AMD demonstrates ‘Barcelona’
AMD has announced that three vendors attending Computex Taipei have unveiling server platforms demonstrating a native x86 quad-core solution, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors (codenamed Barcelona).
The chips are down
IF YOU WERE in the market for a personal computer just a few years ago you could have spent many sleepless nights agonising over exactly which one you should buy.
User interface
EVERY COMPUTER user has a different relationship with his PC: for some it’s simply a tool that must be tolerated, while others develop a genuine fondness for one system over another.
Wireless power: no batteries, no cables
MIT researchers say they will soon be able to charge a computer or cell-phone battery from across a room, perhaps making the annoyance of wires or dead batteries a thing of the past.
The iPod secret: Make sure people talk about you
AMID the clutter in the tech gadget market, much of the iPod’s success can be attributed to its marketing.
AMD opens SA office to help build up connectivity
Computer microchip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has set up an office in South Africa to strengthen its footprint in the country.