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.
SA MAY soon have stock theft and supply chain savings buttoned up with the widespread introduction of radio frequency identification (RFID) labels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The number of personal computers in use worldwide will top one billion by the end of 2008.
Software giant is to launch a huge programme to recycle computers
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).
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.
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.
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.
AMID the clutter in the tech gadget market, much of the iPod’s success can be attributed to its marketing.
Computer microchip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has set up an office in South Africa to strengthen its footprint in the country.