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 [...]

NVIDIA Introduces Fastest GeForce Platforms Ever—Optimized For Gaming PCs

New GeForce 9-Series GPUs, NVIDIA nForce 790i-Series MCPs, and NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Technology Reinvigorate the PC Market with Best Performance, Power, and Price
SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 10, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) continues to address the global demand for better visual experiences on the PC with the recent market introduction of a series of new powerful graphics [...]

World Of Visual Computing To Converge At NVISION 08

SANTA CLARA, CA—MARCH 31, 2008—NVIDIA today announced NVISION 08, a three-day mega-event created specifically for the millions of professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about visual computing. NVISION 08 will bring together engineers, designers, developers, researchers, artists, enthusiasts, gamers, film makers, business professionals, and consumers from every field of the visual computing universe. The event [...]

Microsoft Releases New Version of Web Design Tools

Microsoft Thursday unveiled a version of its toolset for Web and multimedia designers that includes the first native support for its Silverlight technology across all of the products in the suite.
Expression Studio 2 includes five products: Expression Web for Web design; Expression Blend for multimedia and 3D design; Expression Design for graphic design; Expression Media [...]