Apple Shows off New Flagship Boston Store

Apple has big plans for its latest retail store and its first in downtown Boston–literally. The new brick-and-mortar outlet, opening Thursday on Boston’s tony Boylston Street, will be the largest Apple Store in the United States with three floors of retail space.
“Apple has exploded in growth,” said Apple senior vice president of retail Ron Johnson [...]

Microsoft boosts XP on budget PCs

Microsoft is cutting the cost of putting Windows XP on low cost laptops.
The price cuts will only be available for ultra-portable laptops that meet a strict set of specifications.
The move is widely seen as an attempt by Microsoft to bolster its market share in one of the PC industry sectors showing growth.
Low-powered laptops, such as [...]

Future directions in computing

Silicon electronics are a staple of the computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other techniques to deliver powerful computers.
A quantum computer is a theoretical device that would make use of the properties of quantum mechanics, the realm of physics that deals with energy and matter at atomic scales.
In a quantum computer data is not [...]

Pupils reveal mobile snapshot

How big is your mobile phone bill? Have you ever felt uncomfortable about some of the text messages you receive?
And what’s the attitude of those in authority to the use of mobile phones when we should be working?
All of these questions have probably been asked in offices across the country – but they were also [...]

The mobile future is calling

Developers are being asked to devise applications for mobile devices so users can “access it, mix it up, save it, and store it”.

The plea to harness the creativity of the internet and apply it on mobile phones was made by Mitchell Baker the chair of Firefox developer Mozilla.
All of this functionality “should be the same [...]

Windows Mobile to get pumped up on Nvidia

Watch out, Nvidia is stalking the iPhone. The maker of fast graphics processors will apply its chip know-how to juice up the mobile internet device market and the Windows Mobile interface.

Nvidia APX 2500-based Windows Mobile device has flick-and-roll interface
As reported back in February, after a decade of pumping up PC performance, Nvidia is betting a [...]

EIC Squared: SAP, Sun, AMD and Microhoo

In this week’s EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I discuss the latest news from SAP, Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, and Microhoo. At SAP’s Sapphire conference this week, company executives explained the delayed rollout of the new on-demand enterprise suite, Business ByDesign. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said that the total cost of ownership [...]

Top How-to Tech Videos That Won’t Cost You a Dime

These days, most companies refer you to a Web site or include online help. Still, you may need a little extra help with complex subjects.
That’s where these instructional videos come in. They can guide you visually — sometimes with a little comic flair thrown in. Here are some of the best how-to videos on the [...]

Ultraportable Laptops That Perform

Ultraportable laptops are the latest trend, but buying decisions could be a struggle when choosing between low-cost and better-performing models. Low-cost ultraportables under 3 pounds, like Everex’s CloudBook and Asus’ Eee PC, have limited processing power and storage, but they’re good enough to surf the Internet and edit Word documents. The expensive ultraportables, like Lenovo’s [...]

Military Computer Contractor Convicted on ID Theft Charges

A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Randall Craig, 41, of Houston, pleaded guilty Friday to both counts of an indictment returned in [...]