IT

Information society technologies (IST)

Objective

The activities carried out in this area, pursuant to the conclusions of the Lisbon European Council and the objectives of the e-Europe initiative, are intended to stimulate the development in Europe of both hardware and software technologies and applications at the heart of the creation of the information society in order to increase the competitiveness of European industry and allow European citizens in all Union regions the possibility of benefiting fully from the development of the knowledge-based society. Concentration on the future generation of IST will bring IST applications and services to everyone and enable the development of the next generation of technologies to be more user-centered.

Justification of the effort and European added value

At the dawn of the 21st century, information and communication technologies are revolutionising the functioning of the economy and society, and are generating new ways of producing, trading and communicating.

This has become the Union's second most important sector of the economy, with an annual market of EUR 2000 billion and employing more than 2 million persons in Europe, a number that is steadily rising.

Europe is well positionedto lead and shape the future development not only of technologies but also of their impact on our life and work. The future competitiveness of all European industry and the living standards of Europe's citizens depend largely on future efforts in IST research in order to prepare the future generation of products, processes and services.

Industrial and commercial successes of the kind that Europe has achieved in mobile communications as a result of the global system for mobile communication (GSM) standard will not be repeated unless a concerted effort is made to invest a critical mass of research resources in this area, by integrating public and private sector efforts on a European scale.

With a viewto exerting maximum impact in economic and social terms, effort should focus on the future generation of those technologies in which computers, interfaces and networks will be more integrated into the everyday environment and will render accessible, through easy and "natural" interactions, a multitude of services and applications. This vision of "ambient intelligence" (interactive intelligent environment) seeks to place the user, the human being, at the centre of the future development of the knowledge-based society.

Community actions will concentrate on the technological priorities that will make it possible to realise this vision. They will aim at mobilising the community of researchers around targeted initiatives, such as the development of the next generations of mobile communication systems, so as to achieve medium and long-term objectives while being able to react to the new needs and demands of markets as well as those of public policy and citizens.

Actions envisaged 

The actions undertaken will therefore address the following technological priorities:

Integrating research into technological areas of priorityinterest for citizens and businesses

Completing and building on progress expected in the development of basic technologies, research aimed at finding solutions for major societal and economic challenges, faced by an emerging knowledge-based society including the consequences for work and the workplace environment, and, accordingly, focusing on:

(a) research on technologies addressing the key security challenges posed by the "all-digital" world and the need to secure the rights and privacy of citizens;

(b) "ambient intelligence" systems offering access to the information society for all, regardless of age and situation (such as disability or other individual circumstances), as well as interactive and intelligent systems for health, mobility, security, leisure, tourism, access to and preservation of the cultural heritage, and environment;

(c) electronic and mobile commerce, as well as technologies for secure transactions and infrastructures, new tools and new methods of work, technologies for learning (such as e-learning) and systems for corporate knowledge management, for integrated business management and for e-government taking account of user needs;

(d) large-scale distributed systems and platforms, including global resource information database (GRID) based systems that provide effective solutions to complex problems in areas such as the environment, energy, health, transport and industrial design.

Communication and computing infrastructures

Mobile, wireless, optical and broadband communication infrastructures and computing and software technologies that are reliable, of wide application and can be adapted to meet the growing needs of applications and services. Work will focus on:

(a) the new generations of wireless and mobile communications systems and networks; satellite communications systems; all-optical technologies; integration and management of communication networks, including interoperable network solutions; capacity-enhancing technologies necessary for the development of systems, infrastructures and services, in particular for audio-visual applications. Work will also lead to the development of next Internet generation;

(b) software technologies architectures, distributed and embedded systems supporting the development of multifunctional and complex services that involve multiple actors engineering and control of complex and large-scale systems to ensure reliability and robustness.

Components and microsystems

Miniaturised and low-cost components based on new materials and integrating extended functionalities, with the effort focusing on:

(a) the design and production of nano-, micro-, and opto-electronic and photonic components, including those used for information storage, pushing the limits of miniaturisation and minimising the costs and power consumption of micro-electronic and micro-system components, and taking account of the environmental impact of IST systems;

(b) nano-electronics, micro-technologies, displays and micro-systems, and multi-disciplinary research into new materials and quantum devices; new computing models and concepts.

Information management and interfaces

Research into information management tools and interfaces, with a view to enabling easier interaction everywhere and at all times with knowledge-based services and applications, addressing:

(a) knowledge representation and management systems based on context and semantics, including cognitive systems, as well as tools for creating, organising, navigating, retrieving, sharing, preserving and disseminating digital content;

(b) multi-sensorial interfaces capable of understanding and interpreting the natural expression of human beings through words, gestures and the various senses, virtual environments, as well as multilinguistic and multicultural systems indispensable to the establishment of the knowledge-based society on a European scale.

 European IST Research 2005-06, Building on Assets, Seizing Opportunities. click here (pdf)

Links

FP6 - Information Society Cordis - IST Europa - Information Society Information Society Technologies Programme

News 

Information Technology   

30 June 2009:  Building a crash-proof internet. A series of catastrophic failures seems to suggest that the internet is rather more vulnerable to accidents. Read more
 
29 June 2009:  A team of researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer. Read more
 
29 June 2009:  Private stock exchanges are emerging to fight what venture capitalists call a liquidity crisis. These exchanges give stakeholders an alternative way to trade their shares in hot startups like Facebook for cold, hard cash - without having to wait years for an IPO. Read more
 
29 June 2009:  From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. European researchers are making the access to limited grid resources easier. Read more
 
26 June 2009:  Computer systems that dynamically create, monitor, manage or suspend online contractual agreements are being developed to deliver greater reliability and security to service-oriented e-business applications. Read more
 
26 June 2009:  A mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption. Now, a breakthrough called "privacy homomorphism," or "fully homomorphic encryption," makes possible the deep and unlimited analysis of encrypted information. Read more
 
26 June 2009:  Researchers are beginning to collaborate with computer scientists to help uncover biological forms of deception, known as molecular mimicry. Read more
 
25 June 2009:  Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers. Read more
 
25 June 2009:  Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities. The gaming-with-gaze software - a first version of which has been made publicly available for free - is one of several applications to emerge from COGAIN, an EU-funded network of excellence. Read more
 
25 June 2009:  Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used on any old PC. Read more
 
24 June 2009:  To achieve energy-aware computing, a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer is to be built, that will directly repurpose excess heat. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year. Read more
 
23 June 2009:  Living safely with robots, beyond Asimov's Laws. A framework is proposed for a legal system focused on Next Generation Robot safety issues. Read more
 
23 June 2009:  Computer scientists are using the power of storytelling to draw younger students into programming. An animation program called "Alice" allows student programmers of all ages to create their own worlds without realizing they're actually writing code. Read more
 
23 June 2009:  An Austrian project has made the leap from research bench to shop shelf. A digital audio system has been made possible by a computer algorithm that is the first to enable the automatic creation of customised playlists directly in a hi-fi. Read more
 
23 June 2009:  Email logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That's the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees. Read more
 
22 June 2009:  While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical reactions -- "infochemistry." Read more
 
19 June 2009:  Revolutionize evolutionary biology. SATé -- an automated computing method -- can analyze molecular data from thousands of organisms and computing their evolutionary relatedness. Read more
 
19 June 2009:  The protocol GridFTP has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the network, providing a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate large-scale, collaborative science endeavors. Read more
 
19 June 2009:  Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times the speed of earlier methods. Read more
 
18 June 2009:  Working out a timescale for quantum operations. One of the issues affecting quantum systems is coherence. Understanding coherence and how it breaks down (decoherence) is one of the keys to putting together a powerful quantum computer. Read more
 
18 June 2009:  Researchers develops Java programming tools employing human-centered design techniques. Read more
 
18 June 2009:  Computer scientists have developed a framework for studying the arrangement of tissue networks created by cell division across a diverse set of organisms, including fruit flies, tadpoles, and plants. Read more
 
18 June 2009:  You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer. Read more
 
17 June 2009:  In a groundbreaking study, scientists have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). Read more
 
16 June 2009:  A new type of reconfigurable robot can perform diverse tasks by changing its configuration, such as lengthening and twisting its “arms,” in a much simpler and more compact way than previous reconfigurable robots. Read more
 
16 June 2009:  A 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can one day be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage. Read more
 
16 June 2009:  Could an entirely new approach to online security, based on distributed sanctions, help prevent cybercrime, fraud and identity theft? Read more
 
16 June 2009:  The inside story of the Conficker worm. Read more
 
15 June 2009:  A website offers clues to the role DNA plays in aging and disease by helping scientists make sense of the vast jumble of information emerging from genetics research. Read more
 
15 June 2009:  A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. Read more
 
12 June 2009:  Risk of mobile phone virus attacks: Traditional cell phones have been immune to viruses because they lack standardized operating systems. Read more
 
12 June 2009:  A new and novel computer modeling platform developed through intensive, multidisciplinary collaboration can help hospitals and cities to be more prepared for catastrophic public health scenarios. Read more
 
11 June 2009:  ‘Refactoring’ -- 'Anti-aging' technique for computer software systems. Read more
 
8 June 2009:  Scientists are on the trail of a phenomenon called the “colossal magnetoresistance effect” (CMR) which is up to a thousand times more powerful than existing “giant magnetoresistance effect,” and could trigger another revolution in computing technology. Read more
 
8 June 2009:  A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. Read more
 
8 June 2009:  European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural. Read more
 
5 June 2009:  Google launches search tool 'Google Squared' which presents information derived from a query in a spreadsheet-like grid called a "square." Users can then build, modify and refine their "square" through further Web searches. Read more
 
5 June 2009:  A unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years -- a crystalline iron nanoparticle shuttle enclosed within the hollow of a multiwalled carbon nanotube. Read more
 
4 June 2009:  Vibrating ions get entangled. Quantum entanglement of mechanical vibrations brings 'quantum computing' another step nearer. Read more
 
4 June 2009:  New ultracold scheme for scalable quantum information processing. In a recent study, a new system that uses ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice to generate entanglement may be a promising method for realizing a scalable quantum computer due to the high degree of control it offers. Read more
 
4 June 2009:  Physicists have demonstrated entanglement in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world where quantum behavior can be observed. Read more
 
4 June 2009:  MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. Read more
 
3 June 2009:  Flexible memristor: Memory with a twist. Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist. Read more
 
3 June 2009:  Interactive data eyeglasses. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes it possible for a pair of eyeglasses to know what the wearer is looking for. Read more
 
3 June 2009:  The most popular Web sites in the US all share data with their corporate affiliates and allow third parties to collect information directly by using tracking beacons known as "Web bugs" - despite the sites' claims that they don't share user data with third parties. Read more
 
2 June 2009:  Computer scientists have developed a new way of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate with others. Read more
 
2 June 2009:  French physicists had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry. Read more
 
2 June 2009:  Cutting-edge computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument to be recreated - allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the first time in nearly 300 years. Read more
 
2 June 2009:  A group of researchers  in Spain has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using Artificial Intelligence techniques, the program means that original, copyright-free and emotion-inspiring music can be played continuously. Read more
 
29 May 2009:  Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with thoughts alone. Read more
 
29 May 2009:  Using your mood to operate a computer game. Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. Read more
 
29 May 2009:  A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity. Read more
 
28 May 2009:  Computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. There are energy conservation benefits of using reconfigurable hardware. Read more
 
27 May 2009:  Google vs. the Real-time Web .  Twitter and Facebook are emerging as an alternative to the traditional engine, which presents a big challenge to Google’s core business. Real-time discovery engines use a more dynamic kind of democracy. Read more
 
27 May 2009:  A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs -- the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -- was unveiled in Germany. Read more
 
26 May 2009:  Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless. In Quantum computing, the way systems are entangled - correlated - can help scientists perform powerful computational tasks. Read more
 
26 May 2009:  European researchers believe they have achieved what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world: powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly and intuitively. Read more
 
26 May 2009:  A group of researchers in Spain has developed a Web 2.0 application that filters the programming schedules of hundreds of television channels to recommend programmes that viewers are interested in. Read more
 
25 May 2009:  Computer scientist try to peer inside papyrus scrolls buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD by using digital technology. The scrolls were literally turned to carbon by the volcanic heat. Read more
 
25 May 2009:  Computers have been used for years to facilitate learning at a distance. A new European research programme shows that computers can also enhance collaborative, face-to-face learning and problem solving. Read more
 
25 May 2009:  Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices. Read more
 
22 May 2009:  A search engine for songs and music. Take the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the band Queen as an example, it is so internally varied that machine learning algorithms at the heart of their experimental music search engine have trouble labeling the song. Read more
 
22 May 2009:  New evolutionary computing developments optimize complex problem solving. Evolutionary algorithms are a family of algorithms within the artificial intelligence (AI) world. Read more
 
22 May 2009:  There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes computer circuits possible. Read more
 
21 May 2009:  A US watchdog agency has warned that the GPS system could start failing in 2010 and beyond. Due to delays in launching replacement satellites and other circumstances. Read more
 
21 May 2009:  The psychological reasons consumers may fall victim to mass marketed scams are revealed today in a groundbreaking research in UK. Read more
 
21 May 2009:  A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of intelligent search engines. Read more
 
21 May 2009: An article “How to find bugs in giant software programs” in the arXiv blog -- a statistical study of program sizes and bug distributions in a dataset of Java programs. Read more

20 May 2009:  Dutch national supercomputer Huygens defeated 2 human Go professionals in an official match. This is the second victory of Huygens and it sets new world record. Read more
 
18 May 2009:  Project LifeLike aims to create visualizations of people, or avatars, that are as realistic as possible. Read more
 
15 May 2009:  The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a specific personality is encoded. Read more
 
15 May 2009:  Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size. 2 decades ago, data size of 10 trillion bytes is "ridiculous," while today it isn’t. But the ability to monitor and process the data has not kept up with the ability to create it. Read more
 
14 May 2009:  By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction modeled after commodity and financial securities markets. Read more
 
13 May 2009:  Ion trap quantum computing – to speed up the time scale of solving certain important problems such as factoring and data search, and outperform classical computing on large scale problems. Read more
 
12 May 2009:  Tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will, and creates tiny flexible laser on a chip. Read more
 
12 May 2009:  Software to track our emotional outbursts by trying to understand the emotional content of what we write. These "sentiment analysis" tools are a branch of a wider area of computer science that is trying to teach computers to understand the feelings expressed in text just as well as humans do. Read more
 
11 May 2009:  A cloud computing infrastructure project developed at Argonne National Lab, called Nimbus, is demonstrating that cloud computing's potential is being realized now. Read more
 
8 May 2009:  RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments) – a low cost, dexterous robotic hand operated by compressed air, that can firmly hold a can of food or an egg, or gesture for sign language. Read more
 
8 May 2009:  The first of 2 basic types of semiconductors using graphene -- one-atom-thick material -- could lead to faster, smaller and more versatile computer chips. Read more
 
7 May 2009:  “Prosumer”: professional media and content consumers. European researchers in the Citizen Media project want to exploit the power of technology and networked multimedia for the benefit of citizens. Read more
 
7 May 2009:  Wolfram Alpha: the world's first answer engine. Read more
 
6 May 2009:  Constantly “re-rolling the dice”, combining and selecting: “Evolutionary algorithms” mimic natural evolution in silico and lead to innovative solutions for complex problems. Read more
 
6 May 2009:  The Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine (ACQUINE) is the first publicly available tool for automatically determining the aesthetic quality of digital images. Read more
 
6 May 2009:  Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days. Read more
 
6 May 2009:  Mathematical engineers have discovered for the first time a rigid structure which exists within the centre of turbulence, leading to hope that its chaotic movement could be controlled in the future. Read more
 
5 May 2009:  The most advanced supercomputers require programming skills that all too few U.S. researchers possess. At the same time, affordable computers and committed national programs are available elsewhere. Read more
 
5 May 2009:  A new approach to analyzing social networks could identify the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attacks. Read more
 
5 May 2009:  Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. Read more
 
5 May 2009:  The EU-funded MOMOCS project has just released a prototype of a software engineering platform that could help companies save time, money and energy as they scramble to upgrade complex IT systems. Read more
 
4 May 2009:  Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites. Read more
 
1 May 2009:  Bionic penguins learn how to swim backwards and take flight. Read more
 
1 May 2009:  Ultrafast, light-sensitive video cameras are needed for observing high-speed events such as shockwaves, communication between living cells. Now, the world's fastest camera can take 6 million frames per second. Read more
 
1 May 2009:  Conficker worm has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries. Read more
 
1 May 2009:  Making quantum cryptography practical. Quantum cryptography is a completely secure means of communication. Researchers have developed high speed detectors to receive more information faster. Read more
 
30 April 2009:  Electrofluidic Display Technology (EFD), the first to electrically switch the appearance of pigments in a manner that provides visual brilliance equal to conventional printed media. Read more
 
30 April 2009:  The latest supersonic combustion ramjets -- called scramjets -- burn air for fuel. When such a jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can pilot it. Read more
 
30 April 2009:  New computer program promises to be 'Rosetta Stone' for chemical names, translating complex chemical names from one language into another. Read more
 
30 April 2009:  Quantum computers get commercial – and hackable. Read more
 
29 April 2009:  Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books. Based on nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe. Read more 
 
29 April 2009:  Officially established as an electronic data collection standard by the World Health Organization, EpiSurveyor is now the most widely adopted open source mobile health software in the world, reinventing health care in developing countries. Read more
 
27 April 2009:  There are new advances in researching a new kind of memory, called 'racetrack' memory, which could become the standard method of storing information on home computers. Read more
 
27 April 2009:  Quantum entangled systems can be easily ‘disturbed’ by their environment. This is turned into an advantage which promises quantum sensors that are fundamentally more sensitive. Read more
 
24 April 2009:  To shorten the 'transpiration phase' -- repetitive and uninspiring work – in design and to create more room for real inspiration, a software tool is developed to swiftly provide a designer with hundreds of alternatives on which to make an informed decision. Read more 
 
23 April 2009:  A technique for efficiently suppressing errors in quantum computers. The advance could eventually make it much easier to build useful versions of these potentially powerful but highly fragile machines. Read more
 
23 April 2009:  A new, extremely energy-efficient 167-processor chip -- dubbed AsAP – would provide breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks. The chip is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable. Read more
 
23 April 2009:  Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult, and often arbitrary. European researchers believe they have developed a solution -- one which the system functions are all combined within in a single user-configurable interface. Read more
 
23 April 2009:  Lip-reading computers can detect different languages. Read more
 
23 April 2009:  The Blue Brain project launched in Europe in 2005 has been the most ambitious brain simulation effort ever undertaken. A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains. Read more
 
22 April 2009:  A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible. Read more
 
22 April 2009:  Computer engineers are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. Read more
 
22 April 2009:  Humanity's earliest written works go online. National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World. Read more
 
21 April 2009:  Computer scientists have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in cyber-physical systems (CPS): such as aircraft collision avoidance systems, high-speed train controls and other complex, computer-controlled devices. Read more
 
21 April 2009:  The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches on 21 April 2009 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Read more
 
20 April 2009:  The first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing is found with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s. Read more
 
20 April 2009:  Computers are used to automatically analyze aggression and courtship in fruit flies, opening the way for researchers to perform large-scale, high-throughput screens for genes that control these innate behaviors. Read more
 
20 April 2009:  European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. It is fascinating work, and the real-world applications are even more compelling. Read more
 
17 April 2009:  Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory. A special state called ferroelectric - a result that could prove key to next-generation memory devices. Read more
 
17 April 2009:  Cloud computing has the potential to bring about irreversible changes in the way computers are used around the world. Read more
 
16 April 2009:  The development in silicon, a principal constituent of natural stone, glass, concrete and cement, could lead to applications in monitoring the signal quality of internet connections. Read more
 
16 April 2009:  Diamonds could revolutionize the field of quantum mechanics in computing by leading to ultra-secure communication, lightning-fast database searches, and code-cracking ability. Read more
 
16 April 2009:  Scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet. Read more
 
15 April 2009:  A Canadian engineering research team has developed the world's first flying microrobot capable of manipulating objects for microscale applications. Read more
 
15 April 2009:  Our faces contain natural ‘barcodes’ of information which help us recognise people and may have implications for improving face recognition software. Read more
 
14 April 2009:  A new technology was developed capable of reducing data leakage from integrated circuits during electronic transactions by up to 95% in comparison with conventional logic circuits. Read more
 
14 April 2009:  European researchers have created a new software abstraction called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs) which will enable ecosystems for service networks, and make the future ‘internet of things’ a reality. Read more
 
14 April 2009:  Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light. Read more
 
9 April 2009:  Researchers have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use in creating computer memory and writing information. Read more
 
9 April 2009:  Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors, the software that  employs far more complex and resource-intensive solutions to ensure the devices function effectively. Read more
 
9 April 2009:  An open source software that restores privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems works by masking a user's real download activity to disrupt classification privacy. Read more
 
9 April 2009:  Rogue security software referred to as "scareware" pretends to check computers for viruses, and then claims to find dangerous infections that the program will fix for a fee. It is a growing threat, according to Microsoft. Read more
 
9 April 2009:  A new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool, is 10 million times cooler than in prior similar trips. It is a step toward scaling up trap technology to build a large-scale quantum computer using ions (electrically charged atoms. Read more
 
8 April 2009:  Digital album recording every drooling smile and flailing attempt to crawl of children can allow parents to monitor their child's health and developmental progress. Read more
 
7 April 2009:  Tactile User Interfaces (TUIs). To interact with computers and other devices by moving around and handling real physical objects. In short, by doing what comes naturally Read more
 
7 April 2009:  What’s faster than the speediest supercomputer? A high-speed grid linking 12 world-class supercomputers to catalyse European science. Read more
 
7 April 2009:  2 new technologies evaluate an author's feelings based on text data in order to automatically generate entertaining blog content. Read more
 
7 April 2009: The new technology overcomes a barrier in chip cooling by improving the application of a paste that binds chips to their cooling systems. It will allow for faster computer chips to be cooled more efficiently. Read more
 
7 April 2009: The explosive growth of mobile phones in the developing world has sidelined tens of millions of people. Without a mobile, it seems the people are cut off socially and economically. Read more
 
6 April 2009:  Researcher finds optimal fix-free codes 50 years after Huffman coding, an entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression in computer science and information theory. Read more
 
6 April 2009:  Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands. Nimbus is an open source cloud computing infrastructure that provides tools allowing users to deploy virtual machines on resources. Read more
 
6 April 2009:  Researchers have developed and tested a technology that can alert the medical community about public health crises in seamlessly and instantly pushing out information critical to patient care. Read more
 
6 April 2009:  Quantum mathematics could improve web searches. A mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. Read more

3 April 2009:  Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data. Read more
 
3 April 2009:  A Robot Scientist, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. It is believed to be the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. Read more
 
3 April 2009:  Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth? Read more
 
3 April 2009:  Engineer explores underwater wireless communications. Read more
 
1 April 2009:  The intrinsic rotation of electrons – the "spin" – is a promising property for future electronics devices. It may be a new step towards quantum computers. Read more 

1 April 2009:  New robot 'steered by thought,' thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine. Read more
 
1 April 2009:  Engineers are developing a technique for mass producing fast computer chips made from the same material found in pencils. Read more
 
1 April 2009:  A humanoid robot will lead to a deeper understanding of human intelligence. Read more
 
1 April 2009:  Researchers bring new brain mapping capabilities to desktops of scientists worldwide. Technical advances have reduced the time to process high-speed "color" ultrastructure mapping of brain regions down to a few months. Read more
 
31 March 2009:  A team used folded film to create an actuator muscle. Artificial muscles used in robotics… Read more
 
31 March 2009:  The Cancer Genomics Browser provides a new tool to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic roots of the disease. Read more
 
31 March 2009:  Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008. Read more
 
30 March 2009:  A new software program simulates assembly paths and also factors in the pliability of components. Read more
 
30 March 2009:  Global spyware network detected in computers. A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world. Read more
 
30 March 2009:  Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programmes. Read more
 
27 March 2009:  Networking out of natural disasters. Open-source software could transform response to disease outbreaks and natural disasters. Read more
 
27 March 2009:  The growing amount of "digital breadcrumbs" -- the traces left behind when people  phone or surf the Internet -- were of enormous social and scientific value, and were  increasingly exposed to misuse and violation of privacy as "reality mining," allowing companies and governments to piece them together. Read more
 
27 March 2009:  Denmark and Sweden are better than the United States in their ability to exploit information and communications technology, according to a survey. Read more
 
26 March 2009:  New metasearch engine deals with the deep web, and leaves Google, Yahoo crawling with the surface web. Read more
 
26 March 2009:  A new way for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's internal body parts and biometrics, such as knees. Read more
 
25 March 2009:  Rise of the Robots--The Future of Artificial Intelligence. By 2050 robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence. Read more
 
25 March 2009:  A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." Read more
 
25 March 2009:  Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA, performed the world's first successful minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy using the ViKY® system's revolutionary robotic, compact laparoscope holder. The technology is developed in France and tested on thousands of patients in Europe. Read more
 
25 March 2009:  Silver surfers: New social networking Web site Genkvetch geared to seniors. Read more
 
24 March 2009:  Synthetic biology: transforming cells into microscopic biological computers. Read more
 
24 March 2009:  Smart Grid Technology: vulnerable to hackers. Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems. A hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout. Read more
 
23 March 2009:  Making quantum information processing scalable is an important part of the efforts involved with regard to practical quantum computing. Read more 
 
23 March 2009:  The Internet could be used as an early warning system for potential ecological changes and disasters. Read more
 
23 March 2009:  TLS is the main protocol used today to secure exchanges over the Internet. The protocol has been subject to attacks in recent years, resulting in identity theft and data tampering. 2 new extensions to the TLS protocol are developed. Read more
 
20 March 2009:  New material could lead to faster chips. Graphene may solve communications speed limit. Read more
 
20 March 2009:  Latest 3D TV technology offers interactive control, allowing viewers to adjust viewing parameters such as cropping a scene and reproducing an appropriate amount of depth. Read more
 
19 March 2009:  A new approach is to sort the data of images and music, according to moods. Read more
 
19 March 2009:  Information warfare in the 21st century: Ideas are sometimes stronger than bombs. Read more
 
18 March 2009:  Ultra-thin chip embedding for wearable electronics,  with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer. Read more
 
18 March 2009:  The memristor is a computer component that offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips and computers. Read more
 
18 March 2009:  Study on free-space optical communication shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect -- "scavenging," where the composition of fog changes with respect to Quantum cascade laser (QCL). Read more
 
17 March 2009:  Europe must raise its game to become world leader in ICTs. The global ICT market is worth some EUR 2,000 billion and is growing at 4% per year. Within Europe, ICTs account for 6% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Read more
 
17 March 2009:  An EU-funded project addressing the challenges of designing and maintaining long-lived and trustworthy software systems has just got underway. The HATS ('Highly adaptable and trustworthy software using formal models') project has been funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).  Read more
 
17 March 2009:  2 new highly sophisticated methods for monitoring keyhole surgery and detecting disease: state-of-the-art computer science to help surgeons pinpoint the exact position of a diseased cell and a computer-monitored capsule that can travel through the body searching for signs of illness. Read more
 
17 March 2009:  Brain on a chip? How does the human brain run itself without any software? Read more
 
17 March 2009:  By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built. Read more
 
16 March 2009:  Web founder, Tim Berners-Lee, warns against website snooping. Read more
 
16 March 2009:  New organic material may speed Internet access. Read more
 
16 March 2009:  Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet. Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do. Read more
 
16 March 2009:  'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing. Researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits. Read more
 
13 March 2009:  The computer industry is in hot pursuit of innovative, state-of-the-art systems that can meet its needs for prototyping embedded systems. The INTERESTED ('Interoperable embedded systems: tool-chain for enhanced rapid design, prototyping and code generation') project is supported under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more
 
13 March 2009:  Unlike today’s biggest and most realistic LCD and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in mid-air beyond the screen. Read more
 
13 March 2009:  Random network connectivity can be delayed, but with explosive results. As connections are added, there comes a critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly with each new link. Read more
 
13 March 2009:  Web 2.0 for the real world. European researchers work on a mobile platform that brings forth some of the most powerful and compelling Web 2.0 services. Read more
 
13 March 2009:  Networking and blogging sites account for almost ten percent of time spent on the internet -- more than on email. Read more
 
12 March 2009:  First responders could boost their radio communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just 4 extra transmitters in a random arrangement to significantly increase the signal power at the receiver. Read more
 
12 March 2009:  Can a robot follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments — indoors as well as outside? Read more
 
11 March 2009:  Web usage data outline map of knowledge. Analysis offers fresh perspective on role of humanities and social sciences. Read more
 
11 March 2009:  Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes. Read more
 
11 March 2009:  Hologram seminar probes past and future of 3-D imaging. Read more
 
11 March 2009:  Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award. ACM cites 'foundational innovations' in programming language design. Read more
 
10 March 2009:  Wolfram Alpha could answer questions that Google can't. It could make searching the Internet more intelligent by computing its own answers rather than looking them up in a large database. Read more
 
10 March 2009:  Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology. Single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation of ultra-compact data storage technologies based on individual molecules. Read more
 
10 March 2009:  Quantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at will: 'fast computing & slow glass'. Read more
 
10 March 2009:  Handsets, laptops, cars and even clothes: they are all part of the ‘network of things’, an incarnation of the future internet, and European researchers are working hard to create that future now. Read more
 
9 March 2009:  Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft not to censor their Web search engines on the World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Read more
 
6 March 2009:  Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system. Read more
 
 6 March 2009:  Breakthrough for post-4G communications. European researchers are working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s. Read more
 
5 March 2009:  Researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for experimentation and observed some of the 'spooky action at a distance' of quantum mechanics directly. Read more
 
5 March 2009:  NZ ranks 16th in a telco survey of phone, computer and internet technology developments. Read more
 
5 March 2009:  IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds -- Sametime 3D. In virtual worlds, people are represented by versions of themselves, called avatars. Read more
 
5 March 2009:  The improved use and exploitation of digital knowledge - that is the aim of the THESEUS Project. In the future semantic technologies will be able to recognise the meaning of information content. Read more
 
4 March 2009:  ITEA2 ('Information Technology for European Advancement'), the pan-European programme that promotes collaborative research in the field of software-intensive systems and services, has released the third edition of its Roadmap for Software-Intensive Systems & Services. Read more 
 
4 March 2009:  Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques. Metaphors cannot be taught. But a computer scientist and literary historian say Aristotle is  wrong. Read more
 
4 March 2009:  An artificial intelligence expert announced that he has identified a key component of how humans develop mathematical talent. If he's right, a robot mathematician can be as good as us at mathematics, and possibly better. Read more
 
3 March 2009:  North European countries and South Korea have the fastest and most widespread telecoms and computer growth in the world, the UN's telecomunications agency said. Read more
 
3 March 2009:  Six in ten people around the world now have cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a U.N. report. Read more
 
3 March 2009:  Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy. Such defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play a key role in the development of both quantum computing and quantum cryptography. Read more
 
3 March 2009:  We are entering into the era of user-generated services that converge internet and telecom technologies - a sort of Telco 2.0. Read more
 
2 March 2009:  Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves. They can hasten the advent of faster all-optical telecommunication networks, in which light signals transmit and route data without needing to be converted to electrical signals and back. Read more
 
27 February 2009:  Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law. A new circuit element is a memory resistor (or “memristor”) which is a 2-terminal device that changes its resistance to current flowing through it. Read more
 
27 February 2009:  European researchers usher in Telco 2.0 -- the era of converged internet and telecom services. A platform that allows users with no special expertise to generate telecom plus internet services. Read more
 
26 February 2009:  European researchers work diligently to develop and improve technology. Case in point is the EU-funded IQ ('Inductive queries for mining patterns and models') project, which has succeeded in generating new methods to analyse complex data from databases. Read more
 
26 February 2009:  By using light to “dress up” neutral atoms, researchers have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a startling transformation. It can lead to exotic computing. Read more
 
26 February 2009:  Computer scientist has unified the hardware and software worlds into one environment, such that hardware is software. To design electronic systems as collections of small programmable computer… Read more
 
25 February 2009:  'Quantum data buffering' scheme demonstrated; Potentially useful for quantum computers. Read more
 
25 February 2009:  Most powerful ever quantum chip undergoing tests. Read more
 
24 February 2009:  Exploring a 'Deep Web' that Google can't grasp. New ways to uncover the vast data volume stored in databases. Read more
 
24 February 2009:  Biometrics for identification or authentication still has a way to go. Fingerprint security and facial recognition technology are not safe. Read more
 
24 February 2009:  Social patents: Using online social networks to handle patent applications. Read more
 
23 February 2009:  Automated speech recognition has its limitations. The EU-funded LUNA project, funded under the Sixth Framework Programme, is raising the level of intelligence of automatic systems up to 'Spoken Language Understanding' (SLU). Read more
 
23 February 2009:  American scientists unveiled an interactive Google Earth map showing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels across the United States. Read more
 
23 February 2009:  The laser light glowed brilliant red, forming a moving line as it bounced information from a skeletal bird dodo’s bones back into the high-tech scanner… Read more
 
20 February 2009:  Nanoscale elements assemble themselves over large surfaces --  it could open doors to dramatic improvements in the data storage capacity of electronic media -- contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a quarter (US coin). Read more
 
20 February 2009:  Online collaboration identifies bacteria. A new website, a portal for electronic bacterial taxonomy, has been launched which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the identification of bacterial strains. Read more
 
19 February 2009:  San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster. Extremely large data sets hosted on massive, Internet-based commercial computer clusters – “clouds”… Read more
 
18 February 2009:  Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map' – a  navigation technique to find the shortest paths between nodes using only local information, without knowledge of the network’s global topology. Read more
 
18 February 2009:  The superior computing power of the Cray XT3 system allow astronomers to input the extensive calculations necessary to incorporate black hole physics into a cosmological simulation. In fact, such computing power has enabled the most detailed and accurate recreation of the evolution of the universe to date. Read more
 
17 February 2009:  LG Electronics and Intel Corporation today announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel's next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed "Moorestown," and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform. Read more
 
17 February 2009:  Computer scientists and biochemists have developed and laboratory-tested a computer program that can show experimentalists how to change the machinery that bacteria use to make natural antibiotics. Read more
 
16 February 2009:  How do you build a synthetic brain? Nanocarbon modeling may be the next step toward emulating human brain function. Read more
 
16 February 2009:  'Brain gyms' a new industry. From video games that claim to sharpen concentration to brain gyms offering mental circuit training, consumers are jumping on the "use it or lose it" notion of brain health in an effort to stave off the effects of aging. Read more
 
16 February 2009:  Internet emerges as social research tool. The Web is moving to a virtual world where social interaction and communities can inform social science and its applications in the real world. Read more
 
16 February 2009:  Nanotechnology and plasmonics may lead to faster computers. Read more
 
13 February 2009:  Technology advances at lightning speed and while the industry may relish the developments that emerge, researchers are concerned about preserving access to digital material and protecting our cultural heritage. The KEEP ('Keeping emulation environments portable') project is funded under Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more
 
13 February 2009:  Researchers Demonstrate 'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme. Read more
 
13 February 2009:  Software that can be used to play almost any computer game in history is to be developed as part of a European attempt to preserve digital cultural heritage. Read more
 
12 February 2009:  A new kind of counting: Scientists develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problems. Read more
 
12 February 2009:  Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are smaller than optically-based systems. Read more
 
12 February 2009:  New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless. New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier. Read more
 
12 February 2009:  Compete.com has crowned Facebook the most popular social networking website, saying it racked-up nearly 1.2 billion visits in January 2009. Read more
 
12 February 2009:  A technique called "feature frequency profiles" (FFP) makes it possible to compare, classify, index and catalog just about any type of linear information that can be electronically stored. Read more
 
11 February 2009:  The European Union has signed a pact with 17 social networking providers including Facebook, MySpace and Google to improve safeguards against the bullying of teenagers online. Read more
 
11 February 2009:  Today's advanced mobile robots explore complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty traversing sand and other granular media like dirt, rubble or slippery piles of leaves. Read more
 
10 February 2009:  High-frequency wireless communication is growing and a team of EU-funded researchers is combining radio and optics technologies to develop millimetre-wave photonic components and integrated functions. The IPHOBAC project is funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Read more

10 February 2009:  Google is making its vast online library of books available for mobile phones. Read more
 
10 February 2009:  IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS. Read more
 
10 February 2009:  Semantic web technology promises a smarter electricity grid. Read more
 
10 February 2009:  Scientists develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy while running seven times faster than today's best technology. Read more
 
9 February 2009:  Fingerprints and faces can be faked, but not brain patterns. Read more
 
9 February 2009:  Future for electronics opened up with domain walls that conduct electricity. Read more
 
9 February 2009:  US researchers have created a portable "sixth sense" device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines. Read more
 
5 February 2009:  Open source research platform: wireless at WARP speed. Read more
 
5 February 2009:  Google launches phone track service. The Latitude service is available free in the UK, US and 24 other countries. It plots a user's location - marked by a personal picture on Google's map - by relying on mobile phone masts, global positioning systems or a wi-fi connection to deduce their location. Read more
 
5 February 2009:  IBM building 20-petaflop machine to secure nuclear stockpile. One thousand trillion calculations per second. Read more
 
5 February 2009:  Semantic science search engine knows the difference. Noesis, a new web search engine helps scientists who study the environment to retrieve relevant research data. Read more
 
5 February 2009:  Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve. Read more
 
4 February 2009:  The frequency of words in texts, the size of companies and the linking together of components in Linux software distributions show approximately the same mathematical distribution: they obey Zipf’s law. Read more
 
4 February 2009:  A unique laboratory combines psychology with technology to focus on the interaction between humans and complex systems. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  Computer network structure alone can affect outcomes, relationships and behavior. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage. At the nanoscale, closely coiled magnetic vortices hold the promise of a new generation of computers. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  Scientists develop first chip-scale thermoelectric cooler. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  After Google Earth comes Google Ocean. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  Census of Marine Life and ocean in Google Earth bring ocean information to life. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  Scientists have developed a computer game called “Gorge” - designed to help children understand artificial intelligence through play, and even to change it. It can also improve the children’s social interaction skills. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  The robot, Eve, uses advanced artificial intelligence combined with innovative data mining and knowledge discovery techniques to analyse the results of pharmacological experiments it conducts itself. Read more
 
3 February 2009:  De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second (Gbps, or billion bits per second). Read more
 
3 February 2009:  Researchers develop technique for quick detection of Salmonella. Read more
 
2 February 2009:  The threat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read more
 
2 February 2009:  What are the Chances? Probability Solves an Evolutionary Puzzle. Read more
 
2 February 2009:  PanCGH: a genotype-calling algorithm for pangenome CGH data. Read more
 
2 February 2009:  Precision and recall estimates for two-hybrid screens. Yeast two-hybrid screens are an important method to map pairwise protein interactions. Read more
 
30 January 2009:  Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media. Read more
 
30 January 2009:  Organic computing takes a step closer. Computer processors may soon have one fundamental aspect in common with their owners – a structure composed largely of carbon, rather than silicon. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  Computer applications require huge amounts of storage space for the information and data that they gather and use. The services of specialised computer analysts to help interpret this stored information are crucial. Enter the EU-funded VisMaster project, which aims to tackle this problem through the use of visual analytics. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure. It was demonstrated in 81 separate experiments that network structure alone can affect outcomes, relationships and behavior. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  Two years ago, the European research programme UNITE took on the challenge of creating a virtual testbed that IT developers across Europe could use easily and effectively to fine-tune new devices and services. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  How to avoid fast-moving computer worm. Since early January, a worm whose names includes "Downadup," "Kido" and "Conficker," has been infecting millions of computers around the world. It exploits a previously discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  Working artificial nerve networks. Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain. The first step in this direction is taken by creating circuits and logic gates made of live nerves grown in the lab. Read more
 
29 January 2009:  New computational technique allows comparison of whole genomes as easily as whole books. Read more
 
28 January 2009:  New wireless standard promises ultra-fast media applications. A CMOS chip capable of transmitting 60 GHz digital RF signals. Read more
 
28 January 2009:  Electrical engineers have achieved world-record speeds for real-time signal processing, the first Terabit-scale technology for optical processing. Read more
 
27 January 2009:  Europe's nuclear fusion researchers have been granted access to the network of Europe's most powerful supercomputers. The hope is that access to DEISA ('Distributed European infrastructure for supercomputing applications') will enable scientists to carry out complex simulations of the processes taking place inside a fusion reactor. Read more
 
27 January 2009:  Researchers have used the tendency of electron to bounce probabilistically between different quantum states  to create holograms that pack information into subatomic spaces. Read more
 
27 January 2009:  Can networked human computation solve computer language comprehension? Read more
 
26 January 2009:  Worm infects millions of computers worldwide. A new digital plague has hit the Internet. The world's leading computer security experts do not yet know who programmed the infection, or what the next stage will be. It may be the worst infection since the Slammer worm in 2003. Read more
 
26 January 2009:  Internet use tops one billion worldwide, with China accounting for the largest population of Web surfers, digital research firm comScore reported. Read more
 
23 January 2009:  To increase the speed of computers and telecommunication networks, researchers are looking to replace electrical currents with beams of light that would originate from small semiconductor lasers. Read more
 
23 January 2009:  A "Spore" computer game that lets people play God by designing life forms is evolving to offer versions tailored for children, space hunters, and fans of Wii consoles. Read more
 
23 January 2009:  Holographic discs set to smash storage records. Improved materials promise discs that could store over 1000 gigabytes of data within 3D holograms. Read more
 
22 January 2009:  EU researchers have taken speech recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can understand spontaneous language. Read more
 
21 January 2009:  Scientist receives massive computing project award to develop magnetic fusion energy. Read more
 
20 January 2009:  Quantum communication through synergy. When people think of quantum communication, they think in terms of private communication channels…  quantum cryptography. Read more
 
20 January 2009:  The Raging Windows Worm, known as Conficker or Kido, has attacked over 8.9 Million Computers. Once a USB memory stick is infected, there is no Microsoft patch to remove the worm. Read more
 
20 January 2009:  By seeing how far the quantum property extends into the classical realm, researchers can investigate the implications of entanglement in the macroscopic world, such as our assumptions of “realism” and “locality” - that objects cannot communicate with each other faster than the speed of light. Read more
 
20 January 2009:  Wireless carriers appear poised to deliver on what the mobile industry has long seen as its holy grail -- location-based services. Read more
 
16 January 2009:  Measureing quantum information without destroying it. A recent  advancement in building quantum computer is demonstration of a quantum non-demolition sum gate at the University of Tokyo. Read more
 
16 January 2009:  A flood of data is emerging from genome research. To help science keep pace with this flow of knowledge, advanced computer technologies is being developed to tackle data like  those of three-dimensional structure of proteins. Read more
 
16 January 2009:  New wireless 60GHz standard promises ultra-fast applications. Read more
 
15 January 2009:  Researchers from China have discovered that Moore’s Law can also describe the growth of the Internet. It is predicted that the Internet will double in size every 5.32 years. Read more
 
15 January 2009:  Quantum physicists have shown that Hardy’s paradox can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform. Read more
 
15 January 2009:  More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulations show. Read more
 
 15 January 2009:  Thanks to an ingenious new strategy, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against computer worms. Read more
 
15 January 2009:  Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface, a wearable robotic “exoskeleton” that could enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort. Read more
 
14 January 2009:  Fourteen masterpieces from Spain's Prado museum went on display in microscopic detail on Google Earth, in what was hailed as a first for a major international museum. Read more
 
14 January 2009:  Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems. Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the world's toughest problems. Read more
 
13 January 2009:  Digital Communication Technology Helps Clear Path to Personalized Therapies. Read more
 
13 January 2009:  Rice University researchers have created a sophisticated new computer program that rapidly scans large databases of news reports to determine which terrorists groups might be responsible for new attacks. Read more
 
13 January 2009:  European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team organisation a snap. It is the service-oriented ‘pervasive collaboration service architecture’ (PCSA), come out from the inContext project funded by the ICT strand of the Sixth Framework Programme for research. Read more
 
13 January 2009:  Researchers are nearing completion of their first prototype of “SurgiCam,” a tiny surgical camera that can be inserted through a 1.5 cm incision in the abdomen during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Read more
 
13 January 2009:  Why the Mediterranean is the Achilles' heel of the web. Read more
 
12 January 2009:  Shortcovers expects to be turning iPhones into electronic books with the release of a mini-application that lets people read books on Apple-made smart phones in response to electronic book devices sold by Amazon and Sony. Read more
 
9 January 2009:  P2P Traffic Control: Wireless Technology. Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? Read more
 
9 January 2009:  A powerful computing tool - a set of algorithms - that allows scientists to extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed. The tool is compact enough to run on computers with two gigabytes of memory. Read more
 
9 January 2009:  Microsoft Corp. has secured an agreement to become the default provider of Internet search service to mobile phone customers of Verizon Wireless, a Verizon executive. Read more
 
8 January 2009:  A team of University of Toronto physicists have demonstrated a new technique to squeeze light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications for high-precision measurement, next-generation atomic clocks, novel quantum computing. Read more
 
8 January 2009:  Reality Gets Hyperlinked. European researchers can now attach hyperlinks to pictures you take using your mobile phone. It offers the prospect of new ways to discover, engage and navigate your surroundings. Read more
 
8 January 2009:   Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data by maintaining temperature instead of voltage. Read more
 
8 January 2009:   Using diamond to make micro circuits that channel light, not electricity, could help realise the elusive promise of quantum computing. Read more
 
8 January 2009:   'Interplanetary internet' passes first test. The new networking commands could one day be used to automatically relay information between Earth, spacecraft, and astronauts, without the need for humans to schedule transmissions at each point.. Read more
 
7 January 2009:  Femtocells boost cell phone reception indoors. A femtocell is a toaster-size plastic box that plugs into a regular broadband Internet connection. Read more
 
7 January 2009:  Unlocking the dynamic web. Open Knowledge. Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that unlocks and links the web’s hidden resources. Read more
 
7 January 2009:  Fock states could hold clues to quantum memory components…toward developing a quantum computer. Read more
 
6 January 2009:  The future of telecommunications has come one step closer thanks to the ROCKET project, funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project aims to provide a wireless solution that will increase bandwidth availability for consumers and increase efficiency. Read more
 
6 January 2009:  The remarkable ability of insects to look in all directions at once has been emulated by a team of international scientists who have built an artificial 'eye' with an unobstructed all-round view. Read more
 
6 January 2009:  Teaching intangibles with technology. A new system developed by European researchers will help students to learn critical thinking, social interaction, discourse, rhetoric and self-expression. Read more
 
6 January 2009:  Desktop atom smashers could replace LHC. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  The EU-funded project CASAGRAS ('Coordination and support action for global RFID-related activities and standardisation') aims to provide a framework of foundation studies to assist the European Commission and the global community in defining and accommodating international issues and developments concerning radio frequency identification (RFID), with particular reference to the emerging 'Internet of Things'. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  Ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing? Read more
 
5 January 2009:  European researchers have designed an innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors. Now the partners are mapping the best route to market. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  Crystallographers Use Computers To Find New Superconductor. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  Weakness In Internet Security Uncovered. In the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all commonly used web browsers. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  European researchers are pushing online culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in other fields. Read more
 
5 January 2009:  Cloud computing looms larger on corporate horizon. Genentech Inc. decided to rent business software from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier from Google Inc. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  Dream of quantum computing closer to reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough. The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  Grid computing technology has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  'Seeing' The Quantum World: How A Quantum Computer Would Work. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  The fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced techniques to magnetic semiconductors. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  The plastic fantastic future of newspapers. Flexible “e-paper” screens emerging from the labs will soon find their way into portable, lightweight, electronic readers the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Read more
 
22 December 2008:  Scientists develop Species Distribution Grids which offers online maps showing which species live where, across the globe. Read more
 
19 December 2008:  A new generation of lighting devices based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will supplant the common light bulb in coming years. In addition to the environmental and cost benefits of LEDs, the technology is expected to enable a wide range of advances in areas as diverse as healthcare, transportation systems, digital displays, and computer networking. Read more
 
19 December 2008:  Gesture recognition. A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. Read more
 
18 December 2008:  Scientists Write Guide to Build Supercomputer from Sony Playstation 3. Read more
 
18 December 2008:  Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience. The brain of a mammal is a supercomputer that can decode the human genome, play chess and calculate prime numbers out to 13 million digits. Read more
 
18 December 2008:  Toshiba, IBM, AMD Develop World's Smallest FinFET SRAM Cell with High-k/Metal Gate. Read more
 
18 December 2008:  Gas memory could send spooky messages the full distance. Extending the attention span of a kind of quantum computer memory could send secure messages over a 1000 kilometres . Read more

17 December 2008:  Computer Scientists Launching Indoor Navigation System. With its Galileo navigation system, the European Union intends to become independent of America’s GPS (Global Positioning System). Read more
 
17 December 2008:  The year the Web changed politics. The White House campaign of Barack Obama has ensured that things will never be the same again. Read more
 
17 December 2008:  Researchers develop computational tool to untangle complex data such as the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of legislators over their careers, second-by-second activity of the stock market, or levels of oxygenated blood flow in the brain. Read more
 
17 December 2008:  About 90 percent of all email is spam: Cisco. Armies of hijacked computers are flooding the world with spam as hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people's machines. Read more
 
17 December 2008:  Fujitsu Develops Power-Saving CMOS Technology for 32nm-Generation and Beyond. Read more
 
16 December 2008:  Being able to control a computer with the mind was the ultimate goal of human-machine interaction. It's now going to be available from next year. An Australian company plans to release… Read more
 
16 December 2008:  Users of all current versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software. Read more
 
15 December 2008:  Migrating to cloud computing? Don't forget DNS. "As cloud computing takes off… traffic management is going to be a very big deal for people running dynamic Web apps.” Read more
 
15 December 2008:  Talent scout software boosts search for stars. The program is claimed to be able to spot upcoming pop artists weeks or months before they hit the big time by watching people share music on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Semantic Desktop Paves Way For Semantic Web. European researchers have developed innovative software to make finding information on your computer and sharing it with others considerably easier. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Collective Solution To Accessing The Internet Via Satellite. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Google announced on Tuesday that it had begun adding magazines to its online archive of books in a partnership with publishers. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Sevenfold Accuracy Improvement for 3-D 'Virtual Reality' Labs. Software that improves the accuracy of the tracking devices in its immersive, or virtual, research environment by at least 700 percent. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Social networking sites concern cyber-security experts. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  The Open Handset Alliance said Tuesday that 14 more technology firms have joined the army of businesses backing "Google phones" based on an open-source Android platform. Read more
 
11 December 2008:  Cranial Computing: Practical Brain-to-Cyber Interfaces Closer to Reality.  Read more
 
10 December 2008:  A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear -- called transparent resistive random access memory (TRRAM), the first of its kind. Read more
 
10 December 2008:  High Energy Physics Team Sets New Data-Transfer World Records A bidirectional peak throughput of 114 gigabits per second (Gbps) and…Read more
 
10 December 2008:  The fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced techniques to magnetic semiconductors. Read more
 
10 December 2008:  Toward 4G Phones: LG Develops World's First LTE Handset Modem Chip. The modem chip can theoretically support wireless download speeds of 100Mbps (megabits per second) and upload speeds of 50Mbps. Read more
 
10 December 2008:  Hitachi announced today that it released 'GazoPa book' a new Facebook application that enables users to search for images both inside Facebook and on the web similar to their profile photo and photos at their albums. Read more
 
9 December 2008:  Robotics Integrated With Human Body In Near Future? Technology Gulf Between 'Have' And 'Have Nots' Predicted By 2020. Read more
 
9 December 2008:  Intel researchers have made the next advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that could lower costs and improve performance. Read more
 
9 December 2008:  The on-board entertainment and internet access enjoyed by train passengers could soon be transformed by new technology developed at the University of York. Read more
 
8 December 2008:  People are dependent on wireless communication. This is particularly evident in the number of radios, mobile phones, GPS systems and network hotspots used worldwide. But with every wireless communication channel that emerges, pressure grows for people to develop technology to meet market demands. The EU project ICESTARS ('Integrated circuit/electromagnetic simulation and design technologies for advanced radio systems-on-chip'), supported with EUR 2.8 million in funding, will deliver new methodologies and prototype tools to meet these challenges. Read more
 
8 December 2008:  Mobile Phones Affect Memory In Laboratory Animals, Swedish Study Finds. Read more
 
8 December 2008:  Both Facebook and Google announced an extension to their services known as “connect” – this means taking your online identity with you all over the web. Read more
 
8 December 2008:  Physicists have taken a significant step toward creation of quantum networks by establishing a new record for the length of time that quantum information can be stored in and retrieved from an ensemble of very cold atoms. Read more
 
8 December 2008:  Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary. It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement. Read more
 
4 December 2008:  A handful of sand contains countless grains, which interact with each other via friction and impact forces as they slip through your fingers. When a handful becomes a load in an excavator bucket, those interactions multiply exponentially.Using parallel computers to analyze granular material motion is much faster. Read more
 
4 December 2008:  First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution. A layer of free electrons called an electron gas. At 0.3 kelvin - just above absolute zero - these electrons flow without resistance and so create a superconductor. Read more
 
3 December 2008:  New approach eliminates software deadlocks using discrete control theory. Software deadlocks are the Catch-22s of the computer world. Read more
 
3 December 2008:  A more human approach to processing raw data could change the way that computers deal with information. 'Granular computing' — a computer paradigm that looks at groups or sets of information, called information granules, rather than the high level of detail at which data is currently processed. Read more
 
3 December 2008:  Scientist urges new look at government 'Web-tapping'. The technology of government surveillance has changed dramatically, and the rules governing surveillance should be changed accordingly. Read more
 
3 December 2008:  The United States is embracing social networks and other Web 2.0 tools to win the "war of ideas" with Islamic militants and other extremist groups, a top US policy-maker said. Read more
 
3 December 2008:  Powerful online tool for protein analysis provided pro bono by Stanford geneticist. Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function. Read more
 
2 December 2008:  Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon. Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. Read more
 
2 December 2008:  Unravelling the mystery of mechatronics. Futuristic projects such as a glamorous desktop personal assistant called Nicole, who can help with tasks around the office, will come under the spotlight at a conference at the Massey University this week. Read more
 
2 December 2008:  Revolutionary new software which harnesses the power of networked computers to analyse data at high speeds is being developed by new start-up company Manjrasoft Pty Ltd and researchers within the University of Melbourne, Australia. Read more
 
1 December 2008:  The world of artificial cognitive systems and machine learning is moving at a fast pace and is becoming a major international research challenge. New techniques are being developed in this field that will transform many aspects of our day-to-day lives and work. The SIMBAD project (' Beyond features: Similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition'), backed by the EU with EUR 1.65 million in financing, is looking at some of the ways that this research may be put to use. Read more
 
1 December 2008:  Highly efficient lithium batteries could greatly extend battery life of laptop computers. Scientists have developed a new material for anodes, which could clear a path for a new generation of rechargeable batteries. Read more
 
1 December 2008:  Spinning into the future of data storage. Thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'. Read more
 
28 November 2008:  Photon force harnessed to do some light work. You can't feel it, but light can exert forces. And one has now been used to drive a tiny mechanical resonator, in a proof of principle that opens the door to a new way of powering nanoscale machinery. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  RFID chips: a privacy and security Pandora’s Box? Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything…However, the threats posed to personal privacy should be taken into account at the design phase of the applications. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  CHRISTOPH BENDA'S first novel Senghor on the Rocks seems to be the first which combines text with an embedded map mash-up from Google Maps. The book is in German. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  Creating a memory device out of paper. As technology continues to shrink, and as memory needs become more demanding, the industry dealing with microelectronics requires devices that are cost-efficient and lightweight. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  A computer can pick out speech even amid cacophony. Using a recent development in speech recognition, it is possible to search through television news programmes provided the recognition system has been trained beforehand. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  Call it Cable 2.0: You get many of the same TV shows and movies, often with fewer commercials. Better yet, you get to watch what you want on your schedule, not the cable network's. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  In many rural areas, getting on the internet means putting up with sluggish dial-up connections or, at best, erratic mobile services. A new satellite-based solution developed by European researchers promises to change that. Read more
 
27 November 2008:  Alkaline earth atoms lend themselves to quantum computing. Researchers in Austria and the US have developed a new scheme for quantum computing using alkaline earth atoms and other species containing two valence electrons. Read more
 
26 November 2008:  In the past, the idea of crime would bring to mind the image of a burglar breaking into your house or stealing your car. Nowadays, criminals use computers to commit crimes. Whether someone is across the street or 500 km away, state-of-the-art technology has made it easier for criminals to invade your privacy. Read more
 
26 November 2008:  The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure of materials. Read more
 
26 November 2008:  Semantic desktop paves the way for the semantic web. European researchers have developed innovative software to make finding information on your computer and sharing it with others considerably easier. Read more
 
26 November 2008:  Bioinformatics lecturers enlist undergrads to tackle DNA annotation challenge. Annotathon – an innovative bioinformatics teaching approach that appeals to undergraduate biology students. With an increasing interest in metagenomics – the decoding of not just a single genome, but of an entire microbial ecosystem – the amount of data produced is more than a biologist can keep up with. Read more
 
25 November 2008:  Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn have been instrumental in building social and professional networks all over the world. But do they work in the scientific world? A group of experts tackled this question by kicking off an innovative networking platform where researchers can connect with the click of a mouse. Being the first Web 3.0 Community available to the public, ResearchGATE is now taking the scientific world by storm. Read more
 
25 November 2008:  Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers. Read more
 
25 November 2008:  Spinning into the future of data storage. Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'. Read more
 
25 November 2008:  Developing a neighborhood watch for the Internet. But since the Internet has no built-in monitoring system, network problems often go unnoticed…the Network Early Warning System. "You can think of it as crowd sourcing network monitoring," Read more
 
24 November 2008:  A new generation of ultra-low-power computers may soon be a reality, courtesy microchips that process information without moving electrons. Read more
 
24 November 2008:  Now a new method that uses lasers to produce streams of truly random numbers faster than ever before could help improve security at a time when digital traffic and cybercrime are both growing. Read more
 
21 November 2008:  IBM wants to build a computer based on the brain. BIGGISH BLUE boffins and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems to simulate and emulate the brain. The big idea is to get a machine that can sense, perceive, interact and be cognitive. Read more
 
21 November 2008:  How time-traveling could affect quantum computing. The type of space-time that enables time traveling involves “closed time-like curves” (CTCs), and, besides personal fates, CTCs can also provide insights into quantum information and computing. In a recent study, computer scientists Scott Aaronson of MIT and John Watrous of the University of Waterloo have discovered that, if closed time-like curves exist, then quantum computers would be no more powerful than classical computers. Read more
 
21 November 2008:  Quantum computers would likely outperform conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Haverford College. Such improved ability to model and predict complex chemical reactions could revolutionize drug design and materials science, among other fields. Read more
 
21 November 2008:  Foundations for the World Wide Grid. The dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step closer thanks to European researchers. Read more
 
21 November 2008:  Quantum computing advances a qubit closer to reality. Quantum computers are a sort of holy grail of information science. Their inherent computational advantage comes from their fundamental computational unit, the quantum bit ("qubit"). Read more
 
20 November 2008:  The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure of materials. Read more
 
20 November 2008:  As part of its belief that robotics is an important emerging technology, Microsoft has released Robotics Developer Studio 2008, a software program that enables users to create applications for robots. Read more
 
20 November 2008:  In the last 10 years, e-mail has gone from a novelty to a necessity. What was once a pastime is now an essential form of communication, with many people opening their inboxes to find dozens of e-mails waiting. Read more
 
20 November 2008:  As part of an international team of researchers, Northwestern University has officially released the first online game in which human players partner with artificial intelligence (AI) software –- in this case with the goal of solving a treasure hunt in a virtual world. Read more
 
20 November 2008:  Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers. Read more
 
19 November 2008:  Nanotechnology: quantum computer may be closer with extended quantum lifetime of electrons. Physicists in the USA and at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have found a way to extend the quantum lifetime of electrons by more than 5,000 per cent, as reported recently in Physical Review Letters. Read more
 
19 November 2008:  As the global population continues to grow exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively small, as if we're all protagonists in the Kevin Bacon game inspired by "Six Degrees of Separation," …The underlying success of this phenomenon called the "small-world paradigm," discovered in the 1960s by sociologist Stanley Milgram, recently provided a source of inspiration for researchers studying the Internet as a global complex network. Read more
 
19 November 2008:  The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed Hyperion. Read more
 
19 November 2008:  The latest list of the TOP500 computers in the world has been announced at the SC08 supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, and continued to place the Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory as fastest in the world running the LINPACK benchmark -- the industry standard for measuring sustained performance. Read more
 
19 November 2008:  Experts believe Personal Networks will run to a thousand devices by 2017, which presents an enormous networking challenge. European researchers are developing some very clever technology to create a Smart Personal Network that can cope with all those devices. Read more
 
18 November 2008:  Still can't figure out how to work your computer or your cell phone? You're certainly not alone. A survey released Sunday by the nonprofit Pew Research Center shows that 48 percent of adults who use the Internet or have a cell phone or computer say they usually need someone else to set up their device or show them how to use it. Read more
 
18 November 2008:  The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole -- many pages change rapidly or disappear completely, and the old data gets lost forever. Read more
 
18 November 2008:  The Network of Everything. Wireless experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players, games, sensors and other technology…European researchers believe that they are moving towards the solution. Read more
 
14 November 2008:  CSC's Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most powerful academic supercomputer in the Nordic countries and one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe. Read more
 
14 November 2008:  US wireless technology titan Qualcomm on Wednesday said it is unleashing technology that will let people in poor countries connect to the Internet without personal computers. Read more
 
14 November 2008:  Google on Wednesday resurrected ancient Rome online, opening a three-dimensional virtual version of the city for cyber-explorers interested in trips back through time. Read more
 
14 November 2008:  Voice recognition software reads your brain waves. Mind-reading software developed in the Netherlands can decipher the sounds being spoken to a person, and even who is saying them, from scans of the listener's brain. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  Increased use of computers to create predictive models of human disease is likely following a workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which urged for a collaborative effort between specialists in the field. Human disease research produces an enormous amount of data from different sources such as animal models, high throughput genetic screening of human tissue, and in vitro laboratory experiments. This data operates at different levels and scales including genes, molecules, cells, tissues and whole organs, embodying a huge amount of potentially valuable insight that current computer modelling approaches often fail to exploit properly. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered over ordinary power lines. The technology has been around for decades, but most efforts to implement the idea on a broad scale have failed to live up to expectations. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  Light-speed computer connection will slash genetic data transfer time between TGen-ASU. Hot on the heels of a new supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona State University could slash the time is takes to transfer genetic information. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  Improved spectrometer based on nonlinear optics. Scientists at Stanford University and Japan's National Institute of Informatics have created a new highly sensitive infrared spectrometer. The device converts light from the infrared part of the spectrum to the visible part, where the availability of superior optical detectors results in strongly improved sensing capabilities. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  DNA strands become fibre optic cables. Thanks to a new technique, DNA strands can be easily converted into tiny fibre optic cables that guide light along their length. Optical fibres made this way could be important in optical computers, which use light rather then electricity to perform calculations, or in artificial photosynthesis systems that may replace today's solar panels. Read more
 
13 November 2008:  Jacking into the brain – is the brain the ultimate computer interface?  How far can science advance brain-machine interface technology? Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive? Read more
 
12 November 2008:  VMWare has extended its virtualization mojo to mobile phones. Today, the software abstracter told the world it's now offering handset makers something it likes to call the VMWare mobile virtualization platform. MVP, for short. Read more
 
12 November 2008:  A world-wide expert on wireless communications, Professor Jri Lee of the National Taiwan University (NTU) and UCLA PhD conferred has created a system on a chip (SOC) with transmission speeds 100 times faster than WiFi and 350 times faster than 3.5G cell phones. Professor Jri Lee's team broke the speed record with the SoC design which is about 1/10th the size and cost of existing chips. Preliminary figures indicate the SoC chip can be massed-produced for less than $1 per unit. Read more

12 November 2008:  With universities storing ever more teaching resources online, how do students and tutors find what they need? European researchers have devised novel ways to classify and locate teaching materials – and in eight different languages. Read more
 
12 November 2008:  Computers are getting smaller and smaller. And as hand-held devices — from mobile phones and cameras to music players and laptops — get more powerful, the race is on to develop memory formats that can satisfy the ever-growing demand for information storage on tiny formats. Read more
 
11 November 2008:  A computer model that can predict how people will complete a controlled task and how the knowledge needed to complete that task develops over time is the product of a group of researchers, led by a professor from Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology. Read more
 
11 November 2008:  Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm. Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally challenging, since they often require tiny, fragile systems that are difficult to handle. Read more
 
11 November 2008:  The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 "petaflops," or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, making Jaguar the world's first petaflop system dedicated to open research. Scientists have already used the newly upgraded Jaguar to complete an unprecedented superconductivity calculation that achieved a sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops. Read more
 
10 November 2008:  Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs. The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done. Read more
 
10 November 2008:  Anarchy may be the bane of political conservatives, but on the Internet it is the essence of the information superhighway. Read more
 
10 November 2008:  Wireless networks that use a popular form of security known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) are vulnerable to an attack that could compromise certain communications in less than 15 minutes, Read more
 
7 November 2008:  Yahoo’s Hadoop transforming how data is analyzed. Behind Yahoo's push to open up Web search and advertising is software powerful enough to sort through the entire Library of Congress in less than half a minute. The software, called Hadoop, is part of Yahoo's massive computing grid and is transforming the way that Yahoo and corporate giants like IBM extract meaning from enormous streams of data. Universities are also using the code - an open-source version of software Google relies on for daily operation - to train a new generation of computer scientists and engineers. Read more
 
6 November 2008:  Federal regulators have approved a plan to use currently unlicensed parts of the US TV airwaves, known as white spaces, to deliver broadband services. For more than two years this proposal has pitted new media against old. Companies, including Google, HP and Microsoft, say opening up the spectrum would improve internet access for Americans, especially in rural areas. Read more
 
6 November 2008:  In chaotic computing, anarchy rules OK. William Ditto, a physicist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Along with a team of colleagues in India and the US, Ditto has spent more than 10 years conjuring up the electronic equivalent of chaotic weather systems and harnessing them to build the next generation of computer processors. Read more
 
4 November 2008:  The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done. Two years ago, researchers in the European-funded project RINGRID – Remote Instrumentation in Next-generation Grids – took on the challenge of mapping out how scientists round the world can efficiently carry out remote research using the ‘grid’. Read more
 
3 November 2008:  When complex, computerised control systems encounter a malfunction in any part of the process they control, the whole operation often grinds to a halt while the problem is diagnosed and fixed. Software developed by European researchers overcomes that problem by decentralisation. Read more
 
3 November 2008:  Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the quantum computer - the predicted superpowerful computer of the future. Read more
 
3 November 2008:  Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showing strong growth in the uptake of broadband in New Zealand…The OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry surveys broadband use across the organisation's 30 member countries every six months. Its latest findings reveal New Zealand had the world's sixth-fastest growth in broadband penetration over the year to June. Read more
 
31 October 2008:  New supercomputer can do 50 trillion operations per second. In less time than the blink of an eye, the Translational Genomics Research Institute's new supercomputer at Arizona State University can do operations equal to every dollar in the recent Wall Street bailout. Read more
 
31 October 2008:  Women who're not comfortable revealing their age should stay miles away from University of Illinois-developed computer software that reveals a person's age just like humans do-by looking at his or her face. The software, developed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, could analyse an image of your face to verify your identity. Read more
 
31 October 2008:  Intel and the Taiwan government plan to open a development center to further the Linux-based Moblin OS for devices such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), they jointly announced on Thursday. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, created Moblin to use with devices that run on Intel Atom microprocessors. The open source software includes a Linux kernel, a user interface, a browser, developer tools. Read more
 
30 October 2008:  There have been several revolutions during the 60 year history of electronic computation, such as high level programming languages and client/server separation, but one key challenge has yet to be fully resolved. This is to break down large complex processes into small more manageable components that can then be reused in different applications. Read more
 
30 October 2008:  What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer’s hard drive? Read more
 
30 October 2008:  Nokia hopes giving away the Symbian technology used in its high-end mobile phones will encourage Internet developers to build innovative applications on the platform, helping it win back market share. Read more
 
30 October 2008:  European researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the internet from the looming threat of network security bottlenecks. Read more
 
29 October 2008:  Scientists at Clemson University for the first time have been able to make a practical optical fiber with a silicon core, according to a new paper published in the current issue of the Optical Society's open-access journal, Optics Express. Read more
 
28 October 2008:  The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order. Read more
 
28 October 2008:  Microsoft’s Ozzie unveils ‘cloud computing’ play. The man who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp.'s top technical thinker said Monday that Microsoft will compete with Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp. and other rivals in selling information storage space and computing power "in the cloud," distributed across massive data centers worldwide. Read more
 
28 October 2008:  Good code, bad computations: a computer security gray area. If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. Read more
 
28 October 2008:  Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- especially if the signals from lots of them are compared, in order to filter out more mundane sources of laptop vibrations, such as typing. Read more
 
28 October 2008:  Another step towards quantum computing – the Holy Grail of data processing and storage – was achieved when an international team of scientists that included researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were able to successfully store and retrieve information using the nucleus of an atom. Read more
 
24 October 2008:  Conservationists working with Google Inc. have unveiled a tool that lets people view protected marine areas with the click of a mouse - a bid to harness the Internet's top search engine to raise awareness of endangered ocean habitats. Read more
 
24 October 2008:  For all its sophistication and power, your brain is built from unreliable components – one neuron can successfully provoke a signal in another only 40% of the time. This lack of efficiency frustrates neuroengineers trying to build networks of brain cells to interface with electronics or repair damaged nervous systems. Read more
 
23 October 2008:  An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology. Read more
 
23 October 2008:  Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing. By combining metal lenses that focus light through the excitation of electrons - or plasmons - on the lens' surface with a "flying head" that resembles the stylus on the arm of an old-fashioned LP turntable and is similar to those used in hard disk drives, the researchers were able to create line patterns only 80 nanometers wide at speeds up to 12 meters per second, with the potential for higher resolution detail in the near future. Read more
 
22 October 2008:  Google on Tuesday released the open-source code which powers its Android mobile operating system and invited outside programmers to tinker with the software to develop their own features. Read more

22 October 2008:  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. Read more
 
21 October 2008:  The way we use and interact with machines is undergoing a profound change as computers are programmed to learn from experience and see more how we see. European research into machine learning is pushing back the boundaries of computer capabilities. Read more
 
21 October 2008:  Theoretical proof of stable and measurable states extending over two quantum dots and creating offspring has now been provided for the first time. This supports the notion of what is known as Quantum Darwinism, which makes the selection and reproduction of quantum mechanical states responsible for the way in which our reality is perceived. These results of an Austrian Science Fund FWF project were recently published in Physical Review Letters and will play a part in the future development of quantum information technology. Read more
 
17 October 2008:  New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to grid resources. It is a big deal. Read more
 
17 October 2008:  Future models of the living computer, made from the DNA-like molecule RNA, could be used to run calculations in vivo – that is, inside human cells – to release drugs or prime the immune system at the first hint of illness. Read more
 
16 October 2008:  A team of European physicists has developed an integrated circuit that can build itself. The work, appearing in this week's Nature, is an important step towards its ultimate goal — a self-assembling computer. Read more
 
16 October 2008:  A navigation system able to provide emergency services with the quickest route while at the same time taking stress into account; this is an example of a new type of dialogue system developed by PhD candidate Trung Bui of the University of Twente. His dialogue system recognizes the user’s emotions and is able to react to them. Read more
 
16 October 2008:  Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” amplifier. By significantly reducing the uncertainty in delicate measurements of microwave signals, the new amplifier could boost the speed and precision of quantum computing and communications systems. Read more

15 October 2008:  Browsing the internet is better than reading books for boosting the brain power of middle-aged and older adults, new research has found. Read more
 
15 October 2008:  A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine. Read more
 
15 October 2008:  Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna. Read more
 
15 October 2008:  As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their human interrogators that they were in fact communicating with a human rather than a machine. Read more
 
29 September 2008:  The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC rules dictate that it becomes one every European should be able to enjoy. Read more

25 September 2008:  The race is on to develop the next generation of computer technologies, and Europe is leading the pack. Recent experiments in magnetic memories have broken all past speed records and have reached the fastest possible speed that magnetic memories can reach. What this means for the average European is that new faster computers are just around the corner. Read more

22 September 2008:  A new EU-funded project to boost the capacity and efficiency of the next generation of optical networks has just got underway. The PHASORS ('Phase sensitive amplifier systems and optical regenerators and their applications') initiative is funded under the 'Information and communication technology' (ICT) Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 3.9 million. Read more

17 September 2008:  The European commission will today propose updating a 12-year-old global IT trading pact to take account of the explosive growth in hi-tech products and to produce further price-cuts. Read more

11 September 2008:  Making use of all the knowledge online is a huge challenge that may be solved by cloud computing, which researchers say is the next logical step for the Internet.Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are working with colleagues at Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo, as well as researchers in Europe and Asia, to build a global test bed for exploring system designs for the future. Read more

10 September 2008:  Google Inc. said Tuesday it will further cut the amount of time it stores data about users' search requests, to meet European privacy demands.
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy adviser, said the company will reduce the time it stores search information from 18 months to nine. Read more

9 September 2008:  HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge. As measured by an industry-standard benchmark, the new HP EliteBook 6930p configured with an optional ultra-capacity battery delivered up to 24 hours of battery runtime. Read more

8 September 2008:  Urgent action is needed to cut red tape and create a more risk-tolerant environment for high-tech research in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector, the European Commission has said. Read more

4 September 2008:  A new software package, developed by researchers, helps hospital or emergency staff anticipate the rush of patients hour by hour for the day or the next week, even on holidays with varying dates, such as Easter. Read more

3 September 2008:  Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. Read more

2 September 2008:  Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. Read more

21 August 2008:  Intel has unveiled the processors that will form the core of its product line from 2009 onwards. Details about Nehalem, now officially called Core i7, were given at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. Read more

20 August 2008:  Nokia and travel information company Lonely Planet said Tuesday they are joining forces to sell maps and city guides that can be accessed on mobile phones. The world's largest handset maker said users of Nokia Maps can now download information about more than 100 popular tourist locations provided by Lonely Planet, and that more destinations were planned. Each download costs 7.99 euros ($11.75). Read more

19 August 2008:  IBM is teaming with the University of Toronto to build what they say will be the most powerful supercomputer in Canada. In a statement, IBM said the computer will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. It is expected to be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world when complete. Read more

18 August 2008:  A legal ruling on a student project in the United States has thrown the computer science community into a battle over the line between legitimate research and illegal hacking. The disagreement turns on the principle of "responsible disclosure", which governs decisions by computer security researchers over when and how to make public weaknesses in commercial systems. Read more

13 August 2008:  Drexel University students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only their mind. Read more

12 August 2008:  The annual Tech.Ed SEA conference is one of the biggest initiatives by Microsoft Corp that reflects the software giant’s continued commitment to growing the Malaysian software economy. Saw Ken Wye, vice-president of Microsoft Asia-Pacific, said the event is part of RM26mil in investments that it makes yearly in programmes that foster innovation in the local software ecosystem. Read more

11 August 2008:  Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener. Dell said Wednesday its facilities worldwide are now carbon neutral, a goal the Round Rock, Texas-based company had set to achieve by the end of 2008. Read more

11 August 2008:  Google is giving everyone a chance to peek deeper into its database of search requests and discover the things that preoccupy individuals and, in aggregate, entire cities, regions or nations, at any one time. The company was to introduce Wednesday a free service called Insights for Search. Read more

7 august 2008:  Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. Cloud computing refers to applications and services provided seamlessly on the Internet. Read more

4 August 2008:  The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has just received a new supercomputer prototype. Armed with this prototype it now has the means to investigate supercomputing of the future in a manner it has not been able to achieve before. Read more

31 July 2008:  Europeans have a strong foothold in information technology research. Not only has their research fuelled growth for the sector and industry, but consumers have also been feeling the positive effects of the technologies that have emerged over the years. Adding to this remarkable development is the MUSE (Multi Service Access Everywhere) project. Backed by the EU with €15.5 million in funding, MUSE contributed to the strategic objective 'Broadband for All' of Information Society Technologies. Read more

31 July 2008:  Justin Seitz will make you feel scared, vulnerable and invaded. It's his job. The Saskatoon-based computer genius is a security researcher, or in more familiar terms, a hacker. He gets inside the brain of a system, rewires it, makes it crash, steals its information. Read more

31 July 2008:  A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969. Read more

30 July 2008:  It has been difficult to make robots that can truly learn and adapt to unexpected situations and capable of smooth movement. A conference organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), brought together young researchers actively working in the fields of cognitive science and robotics to tackle such issues. Read more

30 July 2008:  The European conference on technology enhanced learning (ECTEL 08) will take place from 16 to 19 September in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The event will be composed of keynote speeches, workshops, tutorials, meetings and an exhibition. Read more

30 July 2008:  Yahoo and technology giants Intel and Hewlett Packard today announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software. Read more

29 July 2008:  Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale. Read more

24 July 2008:  The steady march of the crowdsourcing movement has reached molecular biology in force. Earlier this week, bioinformatics experts announced the creation of a Wikipedia-style database that allows anyone to create and amend a repository of complex biochemical pathways. Read more

24 July 2008:  Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government-backed drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films, it was revealed today. Read more

23 July 2008:  More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity. Read more

23 July 2008:  The inclusion of a touchscreen keypad in place of a physical keyboard on the iPhone has enabled the manufacturer to incorporate a larger screen which means a better display of videos, web pages and games. However, without being able to feel when a button is selected users often experience a high level of errors, particularly when inputting text. Now researchers are using tiny vibrations to imitate the feel of a button when a user touches the keypad. Read more

22 July 2008:  Facebook is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials have announced. Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking down on applications that violate privacy or user-control guidelines. Read more

22 July 2008:  The world's first thought-controlled computer game could be launched by the end of the year. A new headset being developed by an Australian company may soon replace joysticks and Wii handles. Read more

22 July 2008:  Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used on London's transport network can be published, a Dutch judge has ruled. The ruling overturns an injunction to suppress the information won by NXP - makers of the travel smartcards used in London and many other cities. Read more

17 July 2008:  In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom Inc. won't be told the identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular video-sharing site YouTube. Read more

17 July 2008:  There is a clear sense of anticipation building at the Mozilla Foundation's headquarters in Mountain View, California where engineers have been working for the past 34-36 months perfecting Firefox 3.0. Read more

17 July 2008:  Purdue University scientists have taken a page from air conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool down ever-more powerful computer chips. Read more

17 July 2008:  A Michigan State University researcher has created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify suspects and victims. Read more

15 July 2008:  NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT ) Research Centre of Excellence, has secured a place in the European Commission's prestigious 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (FP7 ).  "This is a significant achievement for NICTA and Australian ICT research on the international stage, and the first time the organisation has been included in the 7th Framework program," said NICTA's Networked Systems Research Group Manager, Dr Max Ott.  Read more

1 July 2008:  Researchers are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers.  Read more

1 July 2008:  Scientists may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus.  Read more

1 July 2008:  The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.  Read more

30 June 2008: Orbiting robots could repair satellites on the fly. Read more

27 June 2008: The WINSOC project, supported by the EU with EUR 2.44 million in funding, is developing innovative sensor networks that mimic biological systems. Read more

27 June 2008: IST research in Europe: good, but could do better. Read more

27 June 2008: Food inspection technology could kill waiter jokes. Read more

27 June 2008: Laser headband brings Alzheimer's out of the shadows. Read more

27 June 2008: Device blocking stomach nerve signals shows promise in obesity. Read more

26 June 2008: 'Time reversal' allows wireless broadband under the sea. Read more

26 June 2008: Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images. Read more

26 June 2008: Managing fisheries with semantic technologies. Read more

26 June 2008: Supercomputers join cancer fight. Read more  

26 June 2008: EU funding for information society technologies (IST) research under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) has helped make Europe a world leader in a number of key areas, including high-speed networking and nano-electronics. Read more

25 June 2008: Radio ID tags can play havoc with hospital devices. Read more

25 June 2008: A new and more accurate method of assessing people at risk from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is set to improve national diagnosis rates and identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups. Read more

25 June 2008: Ministers give green light to EUROSTARS and assisted living programmes. Read more

24 June 2008: Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries through grid computing project. Read more  

24 June 2008: Automated microfluidic device reduces time to screen small organisms for genetic studies. Read more

24 June 2008: Nasal spray using body's immune system provides hope of cure for common cold. Read more

24 June 2008: Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches. Read more

24 June 2008: UBC physicists develop 'impossible' technique to study and develop superconductors. Read more

24 June 2008: Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new generations of microchips. Read more

23 June 2008: Fastest-ever flashgun captures image of light wave. Read more

23 June 2008: How to store a picture in a cloud of gas. Read more

20 June 2008: Canada-India RFID project looks to improve traffic flow, reduce pollution. Read more

20 June 2008: Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals. Read more  

20 June 2008: Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers. Read more

20 June 2008: In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes—previously considered bit players by most neuroscientists—make noninvasive brain scans possible. Read more

20 June 2008: Budapest wins race for EIT seat. Read more

20 June 2008: Car insurance companies and people in charge of analysing satellite mission quality are just two of the beneficiaries of the EU-funded OntoGrid project, which came to an end recently. Read more

20 June 2008: Multicore technology, which combines two or more processor cores on a single silicon chip, allows computers handle separate tasks at the same time, thereby increasing their performance. Read more

19 June 2008: Scientists discover way to color MRI scans. Read more

19 June 2008: A kind of virtual colonic irrigation could help to reduce the occurrence of colorectal cancer. Read more

19 June 2008: Surgeons may get Minority Report-style display. Read more

18 June 2008: Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules. Read more

18 June 2008: Discovery will assist treatment and research into fatal brain disorder. Read more

18 June 2008: OSU's Transparent Electronics Key to Solar Energy Breakthrough. Read more

17 June 2008: Lighting up polymer LEDs through nanotechnology. Read more

17 June 2008: PET imaging detects early, 'silent heart' stage of disease in asymptomatic diabetic patients. Read more

17 June 2008: UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research. Read more

16 June 2008: Untangled Quantum Quirk Is Significant Step Toward Quantum Computing. Read more

13 June 2008: Ontario is investing $18 million into nanotechnology and quantum computing research. Read more

13 June 2008: A way to close of diseased blood vessels with unprecedented accuracy using a zap of laser light has been tested in mice. Read more

13 June 2008: 'Electron turbine' could print designer molecules. Read more

13 June 2008: Carbon Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source. Read more

13 June 2008: The silky skills of Europe’s top footballers will not be the only eye catcher this summer as the movement of the fans themselves fall under the watchful gaze of state-of-the-art video surveillance. Read more

13 June 2008: Samsung Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC. Read more

13 June 2008: Computer models show major climate shift as a result of closing ozone hole. Read more

12 June 2008: Study Finds New Properties in Non-Magnetic Materials. Read more

12 June 2008: 'N-variant' microchips could protect intellectual property, enable new services. Read more

12 June 2008: Researchers untangle quantum quirk. Read more

12 June 2008: Microwave Synthesis Connects With the (Quantum) Dots. Read more

12 June 2008: Measuring The Footprint Of Cells For Health And Competitive Sports. Read more

12 June 2008: European researchers have developed solutions to help weld a mishmash of different technologies, protocols and system architectures, making it easier to run research and education networks. Read more

12 June 2008: The European Commission has announced that it will double its investment in European robotics research between 2007 and 2010. Read more

11 June 2008: Real time video to help fight forest fires. The scientists are currently looking at how their system could be adapted for use in unmanned airborne vehicles, as part of the EU-funded AWARE project. Read more

11 June 2008: New Wireless Sensor Network Keeps Tabs On The Environment. Read more

11 June 2008: Managing symptoms by mobile phone may revolutionize cancer care for young people. Read more

11 June 2008: CT lung cancer screening no cure-all for smokers. Read more

11 June 2008: The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology. Read more

11 June 2008: Industrial dye holds the key to advancing spintronics. Read more

10 June 2008: Open Patent Alliance Formed to Advance WiMAX 4G Technology. Read more

9 June 2008: Researchers develop new PET scanning probe that will allowing monitoring of the immune system. Read more

9 June 2008: For the first time, a team of Dutch, German and South Korean scientists have shown how light can squeeze through any hole regardless of its size using Terahertz (THz) radiation. Read more

6 June 2008: New MRI to debut in African nation of Malawi; will save lives, advance malaria research. Read more

5 June 2008: Nanotech: Hot Technology Gets a Cool Down. Read more

5 June 2008: Tongue stimulator can boost ailing senses. Read more

5 June 2008: Public funding impacts progress of human embryonic stem cell research. Read more

5 June 2008: New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment. Read more

5 June 2008: A new software solution developed as part of the EU-funded SIMDAT ('Data grids for process and product development using numerical simulation and knowledge discovery') now gives aerospace engineers access to more computing power. Read more

4 June 2008: EU sees security threats lurking in printers. Read more

3 June 2008: Latest Competitiveness Council brings progress for research. Read more

30 May 2008: Commission sets target for IPv6 deployment. Read more

28 May 2008: Computer scientists devise a 'P4P' system for efficient Internet usage. Read more

28 May 2008: Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips. Read more

27 May 2008: Transforming buses into mobile sensing platforms. Read more

27 May 2008: Nanotechnology could offer jolt to memory chips. Read more

27 May 2008: CT May Better Predict Those At Higher Risk For Heart Disease. Read more

23 May 2008: Access to next-gen Internet may be uneven. Read more

22 May 2008: Chip-Based Device Measures Drug Resistance in Tumor Cells. Read more

22 May 2008: Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles. Read more 

22 May 2008: Targeting A Pathological Area Using MRI. Read more

21 May 2008: Scripps Research Institute awarded patent for remarkable chemical technology. Read more

20 May 2008: Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing. Read more

19 May 2008: New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-domain Genes Developed. Read more

19 May 2008: Military European Land-Robot Trial, Hammelburg, Germany. Read more

16 May 2008: Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors. Read more

16 May 2008: ICT to the rescue of Europe's carbon footprint. Read more

16 May 2008: Europe sees BRIGHTER future with laser diode technology. Read more

14 May 2008: Adding ultrasound to mammography may improve breast cancer detection in high-risk women. Read more

14 May 2008: Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip. Read more

13 May 2008: New MRI technique developed at UT Southwestern detects subtle but serious brain injury. Read more

13 May 2008: Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop. Read more

13 May 2008: New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products. Read more  

12 May 2008: Improving Anxiety Treatment Through The Help Of Brain Imaging: A Potential Future Treatment Strategy. Read more

9 May 2008: Warming up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Read more

9 May 2008: Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier. Read more

9 May 2008: NCAR installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate change, severe weather. Read more

8 May 2008: Ultrasound first, not CT, for diagnosing suspected acute appendicitis. Read more

8 May 2008: Vienna and Bratislava present joint candidature for EIT headquarters. Read more

6 May 2008: Delaying data could cut net's carbon footprint. Read more

6 May 2008: Data protection authority to monitor EU research policy and projects. Read more

5 May 2008: Smarter electric grid could be key to saving power. Read more

5 May 2008: IT gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia. Read more

2 May 2008: 'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers. Read more

1 May 2008: Engineers find 'missing link' of electronics. Read more

18 April 2008: A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward. Read more

18 April 2008: Nanotech to slash gadget power consumption. Read more

18 April 2008: Tiny robotic hand has the gentlest touch. Read more   

17 April 2008: From cartilage to fruit-fly wings, physicist studies 'squishiness' in everyday things. Read more

17 April 2008: New technique yields more detailed picture of chromatin structure. Read more

17 April 2008: The idea that girls are not interested in science and technology is a popular misconception. For the past five years, school girls have been working with robots in "Roberta courses". Read more

17 April 2008: Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously. Read more

17 April 2008: Researchers discover chromium's hidden magnetic talents. Read more

16 April 2008: University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity: Read more

16 April 2008: EU-funded scientists have developed a platform which allows users to stroll freely through virtual worlds. Read more

15 April 2008: Folks below the 'digital divide' would use the Internet more if they had it, research suggests. Read more

14 April 2008: The "Bernstein Award" is equipped with up to 1.25 Mio Euros in the form of a grant over a period of five years. It will be awarded to a highly qualified young researcher, considering the candidates' verifiable research profile in the field of Computational Neuroscience and the scientific concept for a future young research group. Read more

11 April 2008: Sweet nanotech batteries: Nanotechnology could solve lithium battery charging problems. Read more

11 April 2008: Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity. Read more

10 April 2008: EU Report Urges Search Data Deletion. Read more

9 April 2008: Nanophysicists have made a discovery that can change the way we store data on our computers. Read more

9 April 2008: Habit Plays Major Role in Continued Use of Information Technology, Study Finds. Read more

9 April 2008: Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers. Read more

9 April 2008: Team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer. Read more

9 April 2008: IBM Turns on the Water for Energy-Efficient Supercomputer. Read more

9 April 2008: Needle-size device created to track tumors, radiation dose. Read more  

8 April 2008: Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design. Read more

8 April 2008: New EU project to boost online security. Read more

8 April 2008: The not-so-digital future of digital signal processing. Read more  

8 April 2008: Robot-assisted minimally-invasive CABG surgery. Read more

8 April 2008: Data-handling technique finds genes to be team players in curbing brain cancer cell growth. Read more

3 April 2008: Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms. Read more

2 April 2008: Euro-India ICT information day, Bangalore, India. Read more

2 April 2008: Data storage using ultra-small needles. Read more  

2 April 2008: Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers. Read more  

31 March 2008: Communicating your way to a healthy heart. Read more

31 March 2008: Real-time Imaging Device May Improve Surgery For Congenital Colon Disease. Read more

31 March 2008: Future Of Computing: Carbon Nanotubes And Superconductors To Replace The Silicon Chip. Read more

28 March 2008: Astrotechnology Brings Nanoparticle Probes Into Sharper Focus. Read more

28 March 2008: Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible. Read more

28 March 2008: SUNY researcher issued patent for virtual telemicroscope. Read more

28 March 2008: Basis created for directing and filming blood vessels. Read more

27 March 2008: Researchers hoping to use carbon nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single electron would represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches, according to new Cornell research. Read more

27 March 2008: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) falsely detects breast cancer in five out of every six positive scans according to new research into the use of MRI for women with a high, inherited risk of developing the disease. Read more

27 March 2008: PET confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging tool. Read more

26 March 2008: A new study from Tufts University shows that while the "digital divide" may be narrowing in terms of access to the Internet, a significant "digital skills divide" is emerging. Read more

25 March 2008: MRI: A window to genetic properties of brain tumors. Read more

20 March 2008: Microsoft Corp. has announced the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund and Request for Proposals. The $3 million initiative is designed to empower providers with targeted funding to stimulate the research and development of online tools that improve health. Read more

20 March 2008: Chemical 'Keypad Lock' for Biomolecular Computers. Read more

20 March 2008: More than 50,000 European homes and offices added a high-speed broadband Internet connection every day last year, according to the European Commission. Read more

20 March 2008: Researchers Prove Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible. Read more

20 March 2008: Team Finds 'Metafilms' Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices. Read more

19 March 2008: IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair. Read more

19 March 2008: Better Graphene Transistors. Read more

19 March 2008: A machine that churns out three-dimensional artificial tumours could help improve anti-cancer drug testing, Read more

19 March 2008: Doctors may one day be able to detect early stages of colon cancer without a biopsy, using a new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Read more

19 March 2008: Computational tools could become a vital resource for detecting rogue genetically engineered bacteria in environmental samples. Read more

19 March 2008: UCLA researchers have developed a feedback control scheme that can search for the most effective drug combinations to treat a variety of conditions, including cancers and infections. Read more

19 March 2008: The 2008 DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) symposium will take place on 28 and 29 April in Edinburgh, UK. Read more

14 March 2008: Physicists discover how fundamental particles lose track of quantum mechanical properties. Read more

14 March 2008: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will open for business by the summer following the European Parliament's approval of the Council's common position on its establishment. Read more

14 March 2008: For accuracy's sake, medical professionals should use the same software for comparing and analyzing diagnostic heart images taken from different time periods and laboratories, a team of researchers has concluded. Read more

14 March 2008: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Toda Kogyo Corp. (Toda) of Japan have reached a world-wide licensing agreement for the commercial production and sales of Argonne’s patented composite cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, which result in longer-lasting, safer batteries for hybrid-electric vehicles, cell phones, laptop computers and other applications. Read more

13 March 2008: In response to the electronics industry’s rallying cry of “smaller and faster,” the next breakthroughs in the electronics size barrier are likely to come from microchips and data storage devices created out of novel materials such as organic molecules and polymers. Read more

13 March 2008: An MIT materials scientist's research on sea snails has helped transform battery technology and may end the era when cell phones die if they're dropped and PDAs must be replaced if they get dunked in the tub. Read more

13 March 2008: Researchers Hack Defibrillators. Read more

13 March 2008: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will open for business by the summer following the European Parliament's approval of the Council's common position on its establishment. Read more

12 March 2008: A team of researchers has developed a device which promises 100 times faster broadband speeds and 75% cheaper costs. Read more

12 March 2008: A researcher at the National University at San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. Read more

11 March 2008: The European Commission's Directorate General for Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders for a feasibility study on the interconnection of south and eastern African research networks to GÉANT. Read more

11 March 2008: An information day on the ARTEMIS (embedded computer systems) and ENIAC (nano-electronics) JTIs (Joint Technology Initiatives) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 4 April. Read more

11 March 2008: Team achieves nuclear fuel performance milestone. Read more

11 March 2008: New detector can 'see' single neutrons over broad range. Read more

11 March 2008: Mind over body: new hope for quadriplegics. Read more

11 March 2008: Researchers develop more computer-aided drug design. Read more

11 March 2008: A new blood test could enable doctors to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection within days rather than weeks, according to a new study. Read more

10 March 2008: A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved. Read more

10 March 2008: For the first time, researchers have created solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to a specific wavelength of light. By arranging these quantum dots in an ordered pattern, the scientists hope that they can one day fabricate “rainbow” solar cells, which can efficiently harvest a large part of the useful spectrum of sunlight. Read more

10 March 2008: Capitalizing on a cell’s ability to roll along a surface, MIT researchers have developed a simple, inexpensive system to sort different kinds of cells — a process that could result in low-cost tools to test for diseases such as cancer, even in remote locations. Read more

7 March 2008: A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Read more

6 March 2008: Unique locks on microchips could reduce hardware piracy. Read more

6 March 2008: A summer school on technology enhanced learning (TEL) will be held in Ohrid, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on 15 to 21 June. Read more

6 March 2008: SENIOR project initiates ethical debate on ICT for the elderly. Read more

5 March 2008: AMD is announcing the availability of the AMD 780G chipset, designed to deliver the ultimate mainstream computing experience. Read more

5 March 2008: Pentagon worried by China in space and cyberspace. Read more

5 March 2008: New project to deliver next generation electronic chips. Read more

5 March 2008: A conference and exhibition on 'infocommunication in the service of everyday life' called eVITA 2008 will be held in Budapest, Hungary on 3 to 5 April. Read more

5 March 2008: A conference entitled 'Security research: technology solutions to enhance systems interoperability' will take place in Ankara, Turkey, on 17 to 18 April. Read more

4 March 2008: Coming soon to Japan: remote control with a wink. Read more

4 March 2008: A marathon contest longer and more complex than any race at the Olympic Games is unfolding behind the windowless facade of Digital Beijing. Read more

3 March 2008: With efforts to fight climate change growing apace around the world, the IT industry is also doing its bit, as the world's largest technology fair starting next week in Germany aims to show. Read more

3 March 2008: The world's highest-speed computer network, Europe's GEANT, is linking up with others worldwide to create a global research network, the European Commission announced. Read more

29 February 2008: The Valencian Regional Government offers sixty Santiago Grisolia grants for foreign fellow investigators interested in participating in specific research programmes in a range of subjects. Read more

29 February 2008: Academia and industry join forces to make technology more resilient. Read more

29 February 2008: Google Inc is offering a simple Web site publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team collaboration sites. Read more

29 February 2008: IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype. Read more

29 February 2008: Japanese cell phones to turn into 'robot' buddies. Read more

29 February 2008: The European Commission is to spend €3bn (£2.3bn) on nanoelectronics research and €2.5bn (£1.9bn) on embedded computer systems over the next 10 years. Read more

28 February 2008: EU-funded project develops microchip specification language. Read more

28 February 2008: Microsoft Corp has released the latest version of its Windows operating system for powerful servers, thrusting itself into the red-hot market for virtualization technology that allows one computer to act like many machines. Read more

27 February 2008: Google Inc has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents. Read more

27 February 2008: IBM is set to launch the latest update of its powerful mainframe computer, a more energy-efficient machine that it hopes will compete with high-end computers from rivals. Read more

27 February 2008: Analogue logic for quantum computing. Read more

26 February 2008: An international conference on Computational Cell Biology will be held in Hinxton, UK, from 26^th – 29^th March. It is the second in a series of conferences dedicated to this research field. Read more

26 February 2008: An official ceremony on 22^nd February marked the inauguration of the fastest civil supercomputer JUGENE in the world at the moment. Read more

26 February 2008: Criminal investigations will benefit if a straightforward modification is made to computer operating systems, say engineers. Read more

26 February 2008: A team of researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of "secure" memory systems, particularly in laptops. Read more

26 February 2008: STOP terrorism software. Read more

26 February 2008: The European Commission has launched two new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) designed to boost Europe's competitiveness in the fields of nanoelectronics and embedded computer systems. Read more

25 February 2008: Giving e-networks a boost. Read more

25 February 2008: Intel to produce chip for low-cost computer market. Read more

25 February 2008: Computers the size of blood cells will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033, leading inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted. Read more

25 February 2008: Large companies are vulnerable to hackers when they network their computers for cost-saving live virtual machine migration, researchers say. Read more

25 February 2008: Flawless data reception for internet and other fibre-based telecommunications. Read more

25 February 2008: A high-tech "virtual fence" on part of the U.S. border with Mexico is finally ready for service and the technology can fight illegal crossings all along the frontier. Read more

22 February 2008: No directions required - Software smartens mobile robots. Read more

22 February 2008: Advanced engineered substrates boost chip performance. Read more

22 February 2008: Giving e-networks a boost. Read more

22 February 2008: Launch event of new project on ICTs and ageing. Read more

22 February 2008: Japanese firm harnesses the power of human touch. Read more

21 February 2008: Harnessing the web for genomics. Read more

21 February 2008: European research project to shape next generation Internet TV. Read more

21 February 2008: Fibre-optic booster on a chip. Read more

20 February 2008: Breaking the performance barrier of 22-nm CMOS technology. Read more

20 February 2008: Intel delivers 'hard-core' eight-core platform for PC performance aficionados. Read more

20 February 2008: CSIRO has developed a prototype portable device that will allow people to do business across the internet on any computer in a trusted manner. Read more

20 February 2008: Microsoft Corp unveiled a new initiative on Monday that will give college and high school students around the world free access to technology tools used to develop and design software. Read more

20 February 2008: Sony to spend $200 million on advanced panel technology. Read more

20 February 2008: Crystal filter clears up fibre optic communications. Read more

20 February 2008: Hacker's firm doubleTwist enables copying of iTunes. Read more

19 February 2008: Fast-learning computer translates from four languages. Read more

19 February 2008: Looming end to DVD war cheers consumers. Read more

19 February 2008: New knowledge base for European Grid Initiatives online. Read more

18 February 2008: Microchip processing technology is being updated at faster and faster rates in our age of silicon chip wizardry. By the time you unpack your smart new laptop or digital camera, the technology that went into making it is already becoming outdated. But a solution to the problem is now at hand. Read more 

18 February 2008: A high-speed wireless technology that is still in development promises to make mobile Web surfing about four times faster, but its impact on the embattled network equipment industry will be much less dramatic, according to industry executives. Read more

18 February 2008: Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted. Read more 

18 February 2008: Computer models give an edge for spotting winners. Read more

18 February 2008: New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier. Read more

18 February 2008: Touch but don't look: EU project to advance touch technology. Read more

15 February 2008: Security systems can now block the first computer viruses attack on cell phones, but the mobile industry sees new risks stemming from upcoming open software platforms such as Google's Android. Read more

15 February 2008: After replacing paper maps for millions of drivers, GPS technology is now being put into mobile phones and was one of the most-hyped developments at this week's Mobile World Congress. Read more

14 February 2008: Researchers are cannibalising the Sony PlayStation 3 console and other gaming hardware, turning them into low-cost supercomputers to model pharmaceutical molecules and black holes, the weekly New Scientist says. Read more

14 February 2008: Users of social network sites like Facebook will soon be sharing their exact whereabouts with their friends in real-time, owing to new technology that uses the mobile phone as a tracking device, experts say. Read more

14 February 2008: Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks. Read more

14 February 2008: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has joined forces with Vodafone to work on a standard telecommunications system for aid agencies around the world to improve logistics and response times to disasters. Read more

14 February 2008: The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) will be held from 29 March to 6 April in Budapest, Hungary, where internationally renowned researchers will talk about current issues in software science. Read more

14 February 2008: An EU-funded researcher at the French national centre for scientific research (CNRS) has been selected as one of three winners of the prestigious Turing award. Dr Josef Sifakis is the first French citizen to be awarded the prize that is often described as the Nobel Prize for computing since its creation in 1966. Read more

14 February 2008: Gliding to gold -- world-beating software could boost British swimming. Read more

12 February 2008: Demand for video reshaping internet. Read more

12 February 2008: Researchers design copper connections for high-speed computing. Read more

12 February 2008: New technology allowing a group of vehicles to exchange data automatically with each other and with traffic control centres could pave the way for a more efficient and safer European road network. Read more

12 February 2008: Move over, compact discs, DVDs, and hard drives. Researchers in Japan report progress toward developing a new protein-based memory device that could provide an alternative to conventional magnetic and optical storage systems, which are quickly approaching their memory storage capacities. Read more

12 February 2008: Netflix Inc., the online movie rental company, said Monday it is switching exclusively to the Blu-ray format for high-definition DVDs, following four major movie studios in selecting the Sony technology over one pushed by Toshiba Corp. Read more

12 February 2008: The first mobile phones fitted with Google's Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a milestone for the Internet giant as it looks to dominate the wireless world. Read more

12 February 2008: Sony Ericsson on Sunday announced a new premium handset aimed at capturing the Web convergence market, blending multimedia with mobile Web communication in its first product using Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. Read more

12 February 2008: 'T-ray' breakthrough signals next generation of security sensors. Read more

12 February 2008: Russia has become a "superpower" of spam e-mail, becoming the second most prolific country after the United States in producing junk emails, a computer security firm said Monday. Read more

11 February 2008: The popular wireless technology known as Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by taking advantage of Wi-Fi technology already built into many gadgets. Read more

11 February 2008: New research project captures traffic data using GPS-enabled cell phones. Read more

11 February 2008: Taxi! Novel location-based services hailed. Read more

11 February 2008: With a special kick-off meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) has now been launched. The network will coordinate nine research clusters that will look into on-chip multi-cores technology and customisation, leading to heterogeneous multi-core systems. Read more

11 February 2008: The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for the mobile phone industry. Read more

11 February 2008: The EU-funded TEAM research project will be holding a workshop entitled 'Agile Knowledge Sharing for Distributed Software Teams' as part of the Software Engineering 08 conference on 19 February in Munich, Germany. Read more

8 February 2008: A new energy-capturing knee brace can generate enough electricity from walking to operate a portable GPS locator, a cell phone, a motorized prosthetic joint or an implanted neurotransmitter, research involving the University of Michigan shows. Read more

8 February 2008: Three years ago a team from Bell Labs took on a very daunting challenge – put an optical networking system on a commercially manufactured silicon chip, load it with a smorgasbord of sophisticated opto-electronic devices in a combination that’s never been done before, and make it easy to mass produce. Read more

8 February 2008: Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ to the way humans do it. Read more

8 February 2008: A new detector combines a laser with a mass spectrometer to provide on-the-spot analysis that researchers hope will have applications ranging from evaluating a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting explosives in luggage. Read more

8 February 2008: Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49 simultaneous ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned beam reflections. Read more

8 February 2008: The wheels of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) were set in motion this week. Read more

8 February 2008: Stakeholders will discuss 'The future of the internet - perspectives emerging from R&D [research and development] in Europe' from 31 March to 1 April in Bled, Slovenia. Read more

7 February 2008: Drapers’ Company Junior Research Fellowships are given for research in the sciences, and will be offered this year for research in the fields of engineering science, materials science and Earth sciences. Read more  

7 February 2008: A new version of video chat software ooVoo released this week allows users to record chats, perhaps to post them to video-sharing sites like YouTube or just to keep them for posterity. Read more 

7 February 2008: Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has realized the world's fastest circuit technology for embedded DRAM for System LSI, achieving a speed of 833MHz at 32Mb density. The technology will be applied to graphic processing LSI. The technology was today introduced at the ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), held at San Francisco CA from February 3rd. Read more

7 February 2008: SanDisk Corporation today announced the introduction of Multi-Level (MLC) NAND flash memory using 43 nanometer process technology co-developed with Toshiba Corporation in Japan. Read more

7 February 2008: A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue robots and components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could hamper the use of life-saving robots in major disasters. Read more

5 February 2008: A comprehensive, clinical nomogram tool, the Sunnybrook Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator – the first to use all known risk factors for prostate cancer – is available online to help men determine individual prostate cancer risk in consultation with their primary care physician. Read more

5 February 2008: Mood disorders could be caused by a loss of our inherent, reflexive avoidance of aversive events, according to a new study. Researchers from UCL in London and Columbia University in New York used computational modeling techniques to integrate what appeared to be blatant contradictions between serotonin's roles in different states of health. Read more

5 February 2008: Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. Read more

5 February 2008: Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that a strong electric field can stabilize the surface of metals and other solids that conduct electricity, inhibiting the formation of cracks caused by stress. Read more

5 February 2008: The 2008 IST (information society technologies)-Africa conference and exhibition will take place in Windhoek, Namibia, from 7 to 9 May 2008. Read more

4 February 2007: In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices. Read more

1 Feburary 2008: Integrated circuits, such as the silicon chips inside all modern electronics, are only as good as their wiring, but copper conduits are approaching physical performance limitations as they get thinner Read more

31 January 2008: A discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution has opened the door to a new generation of piezoelectric materials that can convert mechanical strain into electricity and vice versa, potentially cutting costs and boosting performance in myriad applications ranging from medical diagnostics to green energy technologies. Read more

31 January 2008: A group of computational biologists at Virginia Tech have created a mathematical model of the process that regulates cell division in a common bacterium, confirming hypotheses, providing new insights, identifying gaps in what is understood so far, and demonstrating the role of computation in biology. Read more

30 January 2008: For some women, digital mammography may be a better screening option than film mammography, according to newly published results from the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). Read more

30 January 2008: Osteoporosis, a common age-related disease, is being investigated by a group of biomechanical engineers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna). Read more

29 January 2008: A tiny, implantable device has pulled adult stem cells out of a living rat with a far greater purity than any present technique. Read more

29 January 2008: A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems, according to a new study. Read more

29 January 2008: In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, have successfully applied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the study of gas-phase reactions on the microscale. Read more

29 January 2008: While X-ray images easily show up the difference between bone and soft tissue, there's not enough contrast between the soft tissues to tell them apart. Read more

25 January 2008: A home access network capable of delivering high bandwidth services and content at transmission speeds of one gigabit per second could soon become a reality thanks to a newly launched European research project. Read more

25 January 2008: The Celtic Initiative, a EUREKA cluster, will be holding its third official event from 27 to 28 February in Helsinki, Finland. Read more

25 January 2008: Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal. Read more

24 January 2008: TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read more

23 January 2008: Researchers have developed a new way to detect protein movements inside cells, which signal a variety of cellular changes such as those in cancer cell development. The method could help diagnose cancer in the future. Read more

22 January 2008: The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. Read more

22 January 2008: Scientists have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies. Read more

22 January 2008: The EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a million sentences translated into 22 official EU languages in a bid to help the development of computer-assisted translation technologies and software. Read more

22 January 2008: European researchers have developed a way of producing extremely detailed x-ray images using conventional imaging equipment such as that found in hospitals and airports. Read more

16 January 2008: Around the world, many scientists are working on various models of a quantum computer. One of the proposed models is a quantum computer that makes use of electron spins. Read more

16 January 2008: A supercomputer that could help answer some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday. Read more

16 January 2008: An international team of scientists under the aegis of the Integrated Infrastructures Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (NMI3) has discovered a new type of interaction between a magnetic field and electrons on the inside of a superconductor. Read more

16 January 2008: The European Robotics Research Network (EURON) is organising the second European Robotics Symposium (EUROS), to take place from 26 to 27 March in Prague, the Czech Republic. Read more

14 January 2008: U.S. researchers have made a very small research tool that may one day help scientists probe the activity of genes and proteins in a single cell, they said on Thursday, opening the door to a new realm of genetic research. Read more

14 January 2008: A European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so affordable and simple that installation could be a DIY job, making faster internet technology a reality. Read more

14 January 2008: The Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) and the Romanian Office for Science and Technology (ROST) in Brussels are organising a seminar on science and technology (S&T) cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries, to take place on 17 January in Brussels, Belgium. Read more

10 January 2008: The Ames Lab senior metallurgist and Iowa State University adjunct professor of materials science and engineering is playing a major role in advancing electric drive motor technology to meet the enormous swell in consumer demand expected over the next five years. Read more

10 January 2008: A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology shows that investment in measurement science has and will continue to have a dramatic effect on innovation, productivity, growth and competitiveness in and among high technology sectors. Read more

10 January 2008: Strange-behaving Crystals Could Have Impact On Research, Technology. Read more

10 January 2008: Mathematicians at the University of Liverpool have found that it is possible to gain full control of sound waves which could lead to improved medical scans, for technology such as ultra sound machines. Read more

10 January 2008: The European Commission has released details of the first security projects to be financed under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more

9 January 2008: Atom-thick sheets of a carbon compound called graphene should smash the record for room-temperature conductivity, say UK researchers. Read more

9 January 2008: Materials that bend sound waves backwards could be used to make perfect sound proofing and sharper medical scans, say UK-based researchers. Read more

9 January 2008: The director of the International Polar Year (IPY) programme office, Dr David Carlson, has called for a comprehensive data storage facility to share the information gathered during the IPY. Read more

8 January 2008: A high-energy form of ultrasound imaging developed by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering produces pictures of liver tumors that are better than those made with traditional ultrasound, according to results of a clinical study. Read more

8 January 2008: MRI imagery is emerging as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic fibrosis. Read more

8 January 2008: Flu viruses must be able to pick a very specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells Read more

8 January 2008: Making cars and planes more energy-efficient, economical and safe is the aim of the EU-funded MERASA ('Multi-core execution of hard real-time applications supporting analysability') project. To achieve this, researchers from six countries have set out to develop embedded processors that use multi-core technology. Read more

8 January 2008: A seminar on how to boost the involvement of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in research and development (R&D) calls will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 14 January. The event will focus in particular on SMEs in the information and communication technologies (ICT) field. Read more

19 December 2007: A student has used piezo-electric technology originally developed for European satellites to power a novel wristwatch insulin pump for people with type 1 diabetes. Read more

19 December 2007: Installation of the world’s largest silicon tracking detector was today successfully completed at CERN. Read more

19 December 2007: ISIS Second Target Station -- protons on target. Read more

19 December 2007: Bypassing decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces. Read more  

19 December 2007: The European Defence Agency (EDA) has awarded €13.1 million to three research and technology projects under its newly launched Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection (JIP-FP). Read more

18 December 2007: Separating particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves pushing up the cells with a laser beam "fire hose." Read more

18 December 2007: PET/CT imaging exhibits significantly higher sensitivity, specificity and accuracy than conventional imaging when it comes to detecting malignant tumors in children.

18 December 2007: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials--how stiff or stretchy they are. Read more

18 December 2007: Pre-commercial procurement in the research and development (R&D) domain is being underutilised, according to the European Commission. A new communication published on 14 December seeks to launch a debate on how to encourage more public spending on R&D and the development of technology. Read more

17 December 2007: An ultrasound scanner that provides more detailed 3D images of the deformed blood vessels within a tumour could help doctors determine the boundary between cancerous and healthy tissue during surgery. Read more

17 December 2007: Two supercomputing networks have successfully joined forces in a distributed simulation of the effectiveness of drugs on mutant strains of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Read more

14 December 2007: Stereo image technology allows doctors to view two digital mammograms as one 3-D picture, and promises to help them spot hard-to-detect tumors. Read more

14 December 2007: The Techinnov innovation and development forum will be held in Paris, France, on 7 February. Read more

14 December 2007: A new EUREKA project is tackling the challenge of the web of the future. In the framework of the CELTIC cluster programme for telecommunications Read more

14 December 2007: Taiwan scientists and engineers have invented a nonvolatile organic memory device. The device uses gold nanoparticles mixed with a polymer that is wedged between two aluminum electrodes. Read more

13 December 2007: Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. Read more

13 December 2007: The European Parliament has given its support to the EU's first four Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), voting in favour of them by a large majority at a plenary session in Strasbourg. Read more

13 December 2007: An event promoting the French Ile-de-France region as a region of digital innovations will take place in the Committee of the Regions' building in Brussels, Belgium, on 19 December. Read more

12 December 2007: A technique for controlling the magnetic properties of a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise computer processing power, according to research published recently in Advanced Materials. Read more

12 December 2007: University of Queensland researchers are part of an international team to have made the first ever execution of a quantum calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers. Read more

12 December 2007: Early identification of adverse effects of drugs before they are tested in humans is crucial in developing new therapeutics, as unexpected effects account for a third of all drug failures during the development process. Read more

11 December 2007: Infinitely secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a hat. Read more

11 December 2007: A Memorandum of Understanding on closer collaboration has been signed by two European standardisation bodies in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) research. Read more

11 December 2007: Photonic crystal fibre’s ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology. Read more

10 December 2007: The EU-funded DILIGENT (test bed digital library infrastructure on grid enabled technology) project has enabled one of the world's largest collections of multimedia metadata to be available to all for research purposes after completing a data challenge on image feature extraction. Read more

10 December 2007: An international winter school on grid computing will take place from 6 February to 12 March. The school is organised by the ICEAGE project, funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Read more

10 December 2007: Researchers have developed a laser system to investigate soot development in diesel engines. Read more

10 December 2007: Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced today. Read more

10 December 2007: Scientists have known which genes are linked to inflammation, but now researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have organized this information to develop a powerful tool to aid investigators in studying the genetics of inflammatory diseases. Read more

7 December 2007: A newly released software program will let health authorities at the site of an infectious disease outbreak quickly analyze data, speeding the detection of new cases and the implementation of effective interventions. Read more

7 December 2007: A significant milestone for the Hubble Space Telescope successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is on course to be reached before Christmas with the testing of the verification model of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Read more

7 December 2007: Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more

7 December 2007: If the move from the typewriter to the computer was a revolution, then the next stage in evolution could see humans interacting with computers inserted into their clothes. Read more

7 December 2007: Researchers at the University of Leicester, UK, are tackling the problem of software evolution and degradation in the framework of the EU-funded project Leg2Net (From Legacy Systems to Services in the Net). Read more

7 December 2007: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Research and Business Organisations (TuR&Bo) will hold a networking reception on 11 December in Brussels, Belgium. Read more

6 December 2007: In about 20 percent of women with breast cancer who plan to undergo a lumpectomy, breast magnetic resonance imaging reveals important diagnostic information that alters their treatment plan. Read more

6 December 2007: The European Commission is set to significantly increase its funding into the development of technologies which protect the privacy of users on the internet, announced the Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini.  Read more  

5 December 2007: Detecting the presence of specific genes in a DNA sample can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Read more

5 December 2007: The EU-funded MolDiag-Paca project (Novel molecular diagnostic tools for the prevention and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer) is investigating new methods for early detection of pancreatic cancer with the help of molecular imaging. Read more

5 December 2007: The Feel of Cancer Cells - Future diagnostic tests for cancer may probe cell stiffness. Read more

5 December 2007: The world's most powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4 Tesla at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has successfully completed safety trials and may soon offer physicians a real-time view of biological processes in the human brain. Read more  

5 December 2007: Two climate change conferences are taking place this week: the United Nations forum in Bali, Indonesia and a second meeting gathering animated creatures on an island in cyberspace. Read more

5 December 2007: The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) theme of the 'Cooperation' aspect of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more

4 December 2007: Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of the solar system requires extensive planning. Read more

4 December 2007: The European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS) will be holding its annual forum from 12 to 13 December in Brussels, Belgium. Read more

3 December 2007: Treating breast cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read more

30 November 2007: Treating breast cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read more

30 November 2007: The German government on Thursday launched a secure Internet search engine to allow children to surf the Web without any risk of them finding violent or sexual content. Read more

30 November 2007: With their target completion date just a year and a half away, scientists and technicians at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) are quickening their pace to install and test the rest of NIF’s 192 lasers and prepare for a new round of preliminary experiments in 2008. Read more

30 November 2007: An EU-funded project developing an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision-support system is about to start testing two applications. Read more

29 November 2007: Millions of Americans, especially children, are needlessly getting dangerous radiation from "super X-rays" that raise the risk of cancer and are increasingly used to diagnose medical problems, a new report warns. Read more

29 November 2007: Using a novel imaging technique to study autistic children, researchers have found increased gray matter in the brain areas that govern social processing and learning by observation. Read more

29 November 2007: A new radiological diagnostic tool called stereo mammography allows clinicians to detect more lesions and could significantly reduce the number of women who are recalled for additional tests following routine screening mammography. Read more

29 November 2007: Center in Philadelphia have used PET imaging to see hyperactive cancer genes inside breast tumors in laboratory animals, marking the first time such gene activity has been observed from outside the body. Read more

29 November 2007: A colour X-ray machine that can detect the chemical make-up as well as the structure and shape of a sample has been demonstrated by UK researchers. Read more

29 November 2007: A technique for controlling the magnetic properties of a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise computer processing power, according to research published recently in Advanced Materials. Read more

29 November 2007: Fuel cells can be expensive and they typically don’t last as long as their internal combustion counterparts. Read more

28 November 2007: Scientists can only develop new cancer drugs or search for cures by testing their theories on the real thing. Read more

28 November 2007: In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. Read more

28 November 2007: Treating breast cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read more

28 November 2007: The Networked European Software and Services Initiative. NESSI, will be holding its second annual general assembly in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 and 12 December. Read more

28 November 2007: The European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) will hold a conference on the potential of new communication technologies for older and disabled people and how research can help the industry deliver this potential on 7 February in Brussels, Belgium. Read more

28 November 2007: Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the "termination shock," the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. Read more

28 November 2007: The Centenary Institute unveiled a powerful microscope unlike any other in Australia. Read more

28 November 2007: Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events. Read more

28 November 2007: A laser-driven motor has been demonstrated by Japanese researchers. Future versions could provide pinpoint mechanical control in places that electric motors cannot normally go, they say. Read more

28 November 2007: A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters. Read more

27 November 2007: Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. Read more

27 November 2007: How can we prepare for the natural hazards that will result from environmental change" How can we predict the effect of climate change on the Alps and other regions of Switzerland" How can we assess whether the use of natural resources is sustainable? By bringing the way we measure and model the environment firmly into the 21st century. Read more

27 November 2007: The Competitiveness Council of the European Union on 23 November paved the way for establishing four Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), agreeing to provide €7.6 billion in funding for the public-private partnerships. In addition, the council made further headway regarding the realisation of the European Institute of Technology (EIT). Read more

27 November 2007: A team of European scientists has published the details of its research into three-dimensional photonic crystals which they believe could revolutionise the world of telecommunications. Read more

27 November 2007: For the past several decades, virtually all electronics devices have been based on the CMOS logic system, which uses semiconductors and transistors to form digital circuits. Read more

27 November 2007: The first ever event devoted to French competition poles and Italian technology districts and parks will take place in Milan, Italy on 28 November. Read more

23 November 2007: A long-sought device able to produce a beam of 'T-rays' that could revolutionise airport security and medical scans has been created by persuading normally independent quantum junctions to work together. Read more

23 November 2007: ENIAC, the European Technology Platform on nanoelectronics, has decided to make the development of medical applications one of its main objectives. Read more

23 November 2007: A long-sought device able to produce a beam of 'T-rays' that could revolutionise airport security and medical scans has been created by persuading normally independent quantum junctions to work together. Read more

22 November 2007: EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini, has spoken of the need to use technology to protect European citizens, as well as to safeguard their privacy. Read more

22 November 2007: In an effort to find an answer to the problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California say a neutron scatter camera they are developing may be able to detect radiation from much greater distances and through more shielding than current detection instruments. Read more

22 November 2007: A team of US scientists poring over the intestines of a tropical termite have a gut feeling that a breakthrough in the quest for cleaner, renewable petrol is in store. Read more

21 November 2007: Complex living systems would benefit from being modelled as if they were computer programs. Read more

21 November 2007: Trust2008, a conference creating a scientific and networking platform covering trust in information technology (IT) systems will take place in Villach, Austria, on 11 and 12 March. Read more

21 November 2007: Twelve European knowledge-based organisations have joined forces with the goal of establishing a European infrastructure to help preserve and provide permanent access to digital scientific information. Read more

20 November 2007: Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site. Read more

20 November 2007: A conference on information and communication technologies (ICT) research collaboration will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, on 6 and 7 December. Read more

19 November 2007: The Max Planck Society invites applications from outstanding young scientists in all fields of research pursued by the Max Planck Society (biology and medicine; chemistry, physics and technology; and human sciences). Read more

19 November 2007: It's kind of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID, anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their system´s downtime to compute enzymatic reactions and ion conductivity to help an international team of biomedical researchers. Read more

19 November 2007: Positron emission tomography or PET scans can help clinicians diagnose and treat some cancers, but it is not clear yet whether the imaging technology helps people with cancer live longer and healthier lives Read more

19 November 2007: Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing. Read more

16 November 2007: DNA-based computing just got a big boost. A method of amplifying weak chemical signals in a way that can be tailored to specific molecules has brought DNA-based circuits closer to practical applications. Read more

15 November 2007: There's growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? Read more

15 November 2007: It takes only a tiny magnetic field to see clear through a person's head, a new study shows. Read more

15 November 2007: A team of researchers have developed a robot control system based on electroencephalograph (EEG) signals, which could help paralysed people regain some independence. Read more

14 November 2007: UK researchers have developed a new technology which could lead to much quicker detection times for a variety of potentially fatal contaminants. Read more

13 November 2007: Studying the sea's tiniest inhabitants is set to get a lot easier thanks to a new device developed by German scientists. Read more

13 November 2007: The European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency EACEA has issued a call for tenders for a study of indicators on information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. Read more

13 November 2007: A new pan-European supercomputing network will enter its preparatory phase on 12 November with a project presentation at the international supercomputing conference SC07 in Reno, USA. Read more

9 November 2007: The e-safety deployment workshop and awards ceremony will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 14 November 2007. Read more

8 November 2007: Most people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. Read more

8 November 2007: Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) have developed a new system to determine the age of living subjects using chest and dental x-rays. The new technique could help to judge the age of immigrant minors more reliably. Read more

7 November 2007: Some 45 research projects have been awarded 30 million hours of computing time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers by the Distributed European Infrastructure (DEISA) as part of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI). Read more

7 November 2007: Denmark and the Netherlands now have the highest broadband penetration rates, while Ireland, Germany and Sweden had the highest growth in broadband subscribers over the past year, according to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Read more

2 November 2007: A selfless act of destruction – exemplified by the way honeybees die to defend their hive – has inspired a novel way of securing computer networks against malicious hackers. Read more

2 November 2007: IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). Read more

2 November 2007: A PET scan (positron emission tomography) that measures uptake of sugar in the brain significantly improves the accuracy of diagnosing a type of dementia often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease. Read more

2 November 2007: Physicists in Arizona State University have designed a revolutionary laser technique which can destroy viruses and bacteria such as AIDS without damaging human cells and may also help reduce the spread of hospital infections such as MRSA. Read more

2 November 2007: U.S. researchers have developed a magnetic sensor smaller than a grain of rice and sensitive enough to detect a fetal heart beat. Read more

31 October 2007: UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. Read more

31 October 2007: Researchers from four European countries have joined forces to develop technologies for capturing and sharing experiences. The project ExpeShare attempts to go beyond web-based sharing of digital multimedia content, trying to create novel peer-to-peer networking solutions. Read more

30 October 2007: The third International ICT21 Forum on sustainable development, new technologies and information society will take place on 30 and 31 October in Valenciennes, France. Read more

30 October 2007: The European Commission has postponed legislation on workers' exposure to electric magnetic fields, which would have restricted the use of life-saving medical imaging devices. Read more

30 October 2007: Researchers at Purdue and Duke universities have developed a technique that uses a magnetic field to selectively separate tiny magnetic particles, representing a highly sensitive method for potentially diagnosing disease by testing samples from patients. Read more

30 October 2007: A new ultra-high resolution mammography system that detects cancerous tumors with higher-quality images, more efficient radiation exposures and lower cost has been developed by a team of U.S. and German scientists. Read more

29 October 2007: Moderate to severe chronic liver disease can be predicted with the use of diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI). Read more

29 October 2007: Combined positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) is currently widely used in the clinical diagnosis of cancer to provide functional and morphological imaging. Read more

29 October 2007: Using an advanced three-dimensional mapping technique developed by UCLA researchers, the team analyzed magnetic resonance imaging data from 24 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 25 others with mild Alzheimer’s disease. Read more

29 October 2007: Discussing the best ways to measure human feelings and emotions is the aim of a new European expert platform. Results of the platform FEEL EUROPE will help to create the basis for novel research topics, technologies, cooperation and innovations across various applications and industrial branches, believe participants in a new EU-funded project.  Read more  

29 October 2007: The European Parliament has voted to boost funding for the European Institute of Technology (EIT) and Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, at its first reading vote on the draft budget for 2008. Read more

26 October 2007: Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. Read more

26 October 2007: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use a new advanced technology network interface called "SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more efficiently and more reliably with each other. Read more

25 October 2007: ENIAC, the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council, has decided to make the energy efficiency of electronic equipment one of its main objectives. Read more  

25 October 2007: Investigating the use of near field communication (NFC) technology in everyday life is the aim of a EUREKA project headed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT). Read more

25 October 2007: Two researchers from the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), Christine Morin and Christine Azevedo-Coste, have been awarded the 'Excellencia Prize 2007'. Read more

25 October 2007: Wireless biosensors that monitor pathogens in water and measure blood pressure or cancer biomarkers in the body are shrinking to nanometer dimensions. Read more

24 October 2007: The European Science Foundation (ESF) has called for greater collaboration across Europe on research on medical imaging. Read more

24 October 2007: Blind and partially sighted people can now safely stroll along a path along the shore of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, thanks to an initiative from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the town of Laveno Mombello. Read more

24 October 2007: Applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are varied and so is its future. Incorporated into a modern, mobile, multimodal high-speed communication system, ICT will pave the way to better safety, improved health, information and entertainment accessible anywhere at any time, according to Wolfgang Wahlster, director of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Read more

24 October 2007: Arizona State University’s Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has a new take on old memory, one that promises to boost the performance, capacity and battery life of consumer electronics from digital cameras to laptops. Best of all, it is cheap, made from common materials and compatible with just about anything currently on the market. Read more

24 October 2007: Blocks of carbon nanotubes can be used to create effective and powerful pressure sensors, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Read more

23 October 2007: The societal dimension of information and communication technology (ICT) was the centre of attention at the Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA 2) Symposium 2007. Read more

23 October 2007: A virtual hospital and a home for 'assisted living' using an information and communication technology (ICT) system are just two of five pilot sites planned in the framework of a project entitled NUADU. Read more

23 October 2007: Researchers have been working on nanowires and microchips so tiny that they could be used to build supercomputers that could fit in the palm of your hand. Read more

19 October 2007: The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders for a mid-term review of the i2010 initiative.  Read more

19 October 2007: The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders for a study on privacy and trust in the ubiquitous information society. Read more

19 October 2007: The second wave of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) has been launched at a Portuguese Presidency event in Brussels, bringing the total number of ENoLL members to 51. Read more

18 October 2007: After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday. Read more

17 October 2007: Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501) [profile] and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced that they have developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive and one TB on a notebook hard drive. Read more

17 October 2007: A European network of national research portals, sharing information and working together to generate an interest in science among the public and businesses alike - this was the vision set out during a presentation of the Italian National Research Portal at the European Parliament on 15 October. Read more

15 October 2007: A new technology developed by scientists at Emory University will allow researchers to more easily discover subtle and overlooked genetic variations that may have serious consequences for health and disease. Read more

15 October 2007: A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. Read more

15 October 2007: The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing's most astonishing developments, from video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems all but limitless. Read more

11 October 2007: The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and partners from German industry have announced a €900 million investment in molecular imaging research. The so-called 'Innovation Alliance Molecular Imaging' will provide funding for joint projects involving the research and industry sectors. The aim is to develop new contrast media, devices and software. Read more

10 October 2007:One day soon, laboratories may grow synthetically engineered tissues such as muscle or cartilage needed for transplants. Read more

10 October 2007:A new nanowire-based memory device being developed by researchers at IBM could combine the best qualities of the various types of memory used today, driving down costs and improving performance. Read more

9 October 2007: University of Cincinnati (UC) radiologists have developed a new technique for capturing images of chest veins that eases diagnosis of venous diseases. Read more

8 October 2007: The Jacobs Foundation is an international charitable foundation, with a base in Switzerland, whose mission is to use science-based knowledge, understanding and education to foster the welfare, social competence and human potential of future generations of young people. Read more

5 October 2007: An international team has opened a virtual bazaar, called PAZAR, which allows biologists to share information about gene regulation through individually managed 'boutiques' (data collections). Read more

5 October 2007: Scientists at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the university’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have introduced a new material that could be to computers of the future what silicon is to the computers of today. Read more

5 October 2007: A new European news platform Imooty.com provides direct access to the latest breaking stories from around the continent, in areas such as science, politics and business. Read more

4 October 2007: The coordinator of an EU-funded project into blindness has won the 2007 Altran Foundation Award for his work on the development of an artificial retina. Read more

3 October 2007: Integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner than a human hair, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have developed a thumb-size micro-incubator to culture living cells for lab tests. Read more

2 October 2007: Europe's research ministers hope to adopt a final decision on Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) in November, enabling the four JTIs proposed so far to get underway in 2008. Read more

28 September 2007: The European Parliament has backed the European Commission's proposal to set up a European Institute of Technology (EIT) by a large majority, but called for a name change to include the word 'innovation', and an initial pilot phase. Read more

27 September 2007: The energy alternative company Solio will release a hand-held solar battery recharger on October 15, 2007. Read more

27 September 2007: Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have created the best method so far of assembling wire-like structures only a single molecule wide, a significant step in science's increasing attempts to reduce the circuitry size of electronic devices to the single molecule scale and provide smaller, faster, and more energy efficient electronics. Read more.

27 September 2007: U.S. physicists have coaxed tiny artificial atoms into communicating in an advance that may lead to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on Wednesday. Read more

26 September 2007: Some 37 national grid projects have teamed up as part of the European Grid Initiative (EGI) to set up a distributed computing network that will enable laboratories to collaborate via thousands of computers merged into one supercomputer. Read more

26 September 2007: The European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders for a study on optimising the use of the radio spectrum by the public sector in the European Union. Read more

26 September 2007: The Governing Body of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Microsoft Research Limited jointly offer a stipendiary research fellowship supporting research in the field of adaptive computing (including topics such as pattern recognition, probabilistic inference, statistical learning theory and computer vision). Read more

26 September 2007: Lymph nodes appear to play a key role in spreading low doses of prion diseases such as scrapie or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to the central nervous system (CNS), according to new research from German scientists. Read more

26 September 2007: Scientists have discovered the brain region which controls whether excess energy should be stored as fat or burned in our muscles. The researchers hope that their findings will lead to the development of new treatments for obesity. Read more 

26 September 2007: British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that the European Union has allowed it to market Cervarix -- a vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer. Read more

26 September 2007: For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries. His most recent discovery, which produces billions of neural cells from a few stem cells, could now aid in national security. Read more

26 September 2007: By better understanding how antimicrobials bind and thereby get inactivated in the mucus of air passages, researchers at the University of Illinois may have found a way to help cystic fibrosis patients fight off deadly infections. Read more 

26 September 2007: For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral changes associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity. Read more

26 September 2007: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the cause of one of the most important sexually transmitted diseases nowadays, and affects both men and women. Read more

26 September 2007: The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes. With an increasing number of biological clues available, doctors hope they will be able to customize more patients' treatments based on their genetic profiles. Read more

26 September 2007: Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) have identified the biochemical mechanism behind the adhesive protein that give rise to particularly serious malaria in children. Read more 

26 September 2007: A team, led by researchers at the Carnegie Institution, has found a key biochemical cycle that suppresses the immune response, thereby allowing cancer cells to multiply unabated. Read more

26 September 2007: Researchers at the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou have discovered that mimecan and Thioredoxin Domain-Containing Protein 5 (TXNDC5) were differentially expressed in colorectal adenoma. Read more 

26 September 2007: In research conducted in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), scientists at Rockefeller University have now identified the cellular event that marks the moment when a cell knows it is big enough to commit to cell division and spawn genetic replicas of itself. Read more

26 September 2007: Scientists in Aberdeen have identified two genes that identify which breast cancer cells are resistant and which respond to a common chemotherapy treatment. Read more

26 September 2007: A novel strategy to hopefully beat into oblivion one of the most aggressive forms of acute myelogenous leukemia combines the strengths of some of the newest leukemia agents, researchers say. Read more 

26 September 2007: Cancer cells circulating in the blood, or circulating tumour cells (CTCs), are known to be associated with a bad prognosis in women with metastatic breast cancer. Read more
 
26 September 2007: Italian scientists will announce today (Monday September 24) that they have found a new and promising target for anti-tumour therapy in cancer. Read more

26 September 2007: Researchers in California are reporting new evidence explaining pomegranate juice’s mysterious beneficial effects in fighting prostate cancer. Read more

26 September 2007: Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Read more

24 September 2007: From artificial kidneys to robots as nursing staff in hospitals, information technology (IT) is becoming increasingly important in preventive healthcare and the treatment of diseases. But not everything that is technically possible will also be accepted, say researchers from the German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). Read more

24 September 2007: Radiation oncologists and urologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have begun using a real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds in prostate cancer patients. Read more

24 September 2007: A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background. Read more

20 September 2007: Leading experts from some of the world's top corporations and research institutes will set out their vision of the next-generation Internet, its enhanced interactivity, and how users, business, scientists and citizens may exploit its new possibilities, at a conference in Ottawa, Canada, on 3 October. Read more

20 September 2007: The University of Manchester is developing high-speed data crunching technology that will be crucial to the success of one of the greatest scientific projects of the 21st century. Read more

20 September 2007: Boxes that sense the weight of their contents and books that talk back when pages are turned could be developed using technology being tested by researchers at MIT in the US. They are making paper with wires, sensors, and computer chips embedded, a technology dubbed 'Pulp-based' computing.  Read more

14 September 2007: The second international workshop on building technology-enhanced learning solutions for communities of practice will be held in Crete, Greece, on 17 September. Read more

14 September 2007: New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic nanoparticle without any magnetic field and may enable computers to more accurately write and store information. Read more

13 September 2007: Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a way to generate light and reduce damage in a leading candidate for next-generation microelectronics lithography. The technique could help pack more power into smaller computer chips. Read more

12 September 2007: The European Commission has proposed a series of actions to boost Europeans' e-skills. According to recent reports, Europe is likely to face a growing e-skills shortage in coming years. Read more

12 September 2007: Computer engineering professor at UH receives NSF grant to partner with UC-Riverside, Seagate Technology. Read more

11 September 2007:The first symposium on research, internet and knowledge networks will be held in Bordeaux, France on 27-28 September. Read more

11 September 2007:IBM scientists have created a novel molecular switch that is able to turn on and off without altering its shape. Read more

11 September 2007:A new way to harness wind energy may take off now that computers have learned to kite surf. Read more

7 September 2007: German and Swiss researchers have developed the world's fastest personal computer (PC) forensic system to copy and protect evidence in criminal cases involving computers and digital networks. The IT FORENSIC project was supported by EUREKA. Read more

7 September 2007: Jean Michel Sellier, the founder of SouthNovel, has decided to make his Aeneas3 tool, a very advanced simulator for Monte Carlo quantum transport in semiconductor devices of general 3D shape for organic and inorganic materials, available to the entire scientific community as a free software tool under GPL license. Read more

4 September 2007: Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls, and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm in the event of high pressure in the eye, bladder or brain. Read more

3 September 2007: A grant of $221,145 from The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) International Science Linkages programme will support the e-Health Research Centre’s involvement in the AMIDA project (Augmented Multi-party Interaction with Distant Access). Read more

30 August 2007: NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive. Read more

23 August 2007: The ubiquitous Flash video player will soon support the same technology behind next-generation, high-definition DVDs, but don't expect online clips to look great on giant television screens for some time. Read more

23 August 2007: Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging. Read more

23 August 2007: Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world  with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels. Read more

23 August 2007: A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say. Read more

23 August 2007: Digital films of outstanding picture quality are set to attract movie fans back to the cinema. At the International Broadcast Convention IBC in Amsterdam on September 7-11, Fraunhofer research scientists are presenting important components of an all-digital film-production chain. Read more

23 August 2007: In 1971, before most people had even used a computer, legal scholar Arthur R. Miller wrote that the rise of databases being harnessed by credit agencies, governments and corporations was creating a difficult problem: "balancing privacy and efficiency." Read more

23 August 2007: Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google Earth. Read more

23 August 2007: Car shopping? Maybe you should go to the videotape. Jarring images of vehicles crashing into test barriers are becoming more prevalent on the Internet, giving safety-conscious car shoppers another tool when searching for the right car. Read more

22 August 2007: An eye tracking experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication revealed that college student internet users have an inherent trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. When participants selected a link from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards links higher in position, even if that content was less relevant to the search query. Read more

22 August 2007: Cars already automatically lock doors when they sense motion and turn on warning lights if they detect potential engine problems. But they are about to get smarter. Read more

 22 August 2007: Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks and digital media company RealNetworks announced Tuesday a digital music joint venture that will compete with Apple's dominant trinity of the iTunes store, iPod player and iPhone. Read more

22 August 2007: Wells Fargo & Co. announced early Tuesday it has fixed a computer glitch that some customers said left them unable to access their online bank accounts or get cash from ATMs. Read more

22 August 2007: To support its embedded technology customers, Intel Corporation announced today plans to extend its embedded NOR flash products to the 65-nanometer (nm) generation. Read more

22 August 2007: Social-networking site Bebo Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a Microsoft-powered instant-messaging program this fall. Read more

22 August 2007: The Associated Press and NBC Universal reached a deal that allows AP to include video links and other exclusive content from the 2008 Summer Olympics in a premium online service, the companies said Tuesday. Read more

21 August 2007: Snoopers won't stand a chance if you enter your PIN using only eye movements. Read more

21 August 2007: Is it possible to "feel" an object while being in another location? This is a question addressed by several technologies on show at the SIGGRAPH 2007 computer conference in San Diego, California, US, earlier this month. Read more

20 August 2007: Skype said its Internet phone service has returned to normal after a software bug left many users unable to log on for two days. Read more

20 August 2007: Dell's internal investigation into its accounting problems is over, leaving up to a $150 million hit on earnings in its wake. Now, it may be the feds' turn. Read more

20 August 2007: A US hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican. Read more

20 August 2007: Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it has asked the United States to ban imports of chipsets made by Qualcomm Inc. along with phones and other products made with those chipsets. Read more

20 August 2007: North Korea is expected to register an Internet country address this year as the isolated communist state takes cautious steps towards global information technology, an official said Friday. Read more

20 August 2007: The first known pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said. Read more

20 August 2007: Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with subscribers - more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Read more

20 August 2007: EMC Corp. can't celebrate too long after spinning off a 10 percent stake of its VMware Inc. software unit in what became the biggest technology stock offering since Google Inc. Read more

17 August 2007: News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study Wednesday. ... Read more

17 August 2007: Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard Co. Read more

17 August 2007: An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads. Read more

17 August 2007: Computer maker Dell Inc. on Thursday said it will reduce more than four years' worth of earnings by up to $150 million after an internal probe found the company misled its auditors and manipulated results to meet performance goals. Read more

17 August 2007: "My husband isn't home tonight. Would you like to..." reads the suggestive e-mail on the computer screen. Obviously, the sender has no idea that the recipient is 78-year-old grandmother Kikue Kamata. Read more

16 August 2007: Ultrafast quantum computer uses optically controlled electrons. Read more
10 August 2007: A conference on the objectives and challenges of the second information society technologies (IST) call for proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place on 10 and 11 June in Hertfordshire, UK. Read more

10 August 2007: The e-Power network is organising a conference on regional responses to developing information and communication technologies (ICT), to be held on 3 and 4 July in Vienna, Austria. Read more

10 August 2007: The EU funded project SCULPTEUR is developing a new way of visiting Europe's greatest galleries and museums, making endless queues and sore feet a thing of the past. Read more

10 August 2007: The 'innovations-report' portal, with over 18,000 pages on new technologies, research results and innovative practices, has been relaunched with a new design, enabling users the find the desired information in seconds. Read more

10 August 2007: In a world first, Fujitsu has achieved the basic read/write capability of ideally ordered alumina nanoholes on a 2.5” magnetic disk with a flying head. Read more

9 August 2007: Two of Germany's top research bodies have joined forces to create the 'Jülich Aachen Research Alliance' (JARA), in what a government minister has described as a 'forward-looking' move. Read more

9 August 2007: The third summer school organised by CoreGRID, a European network on grid and peer-to-peer technologies, will take place from 3 to7 September in Budapest, Hungary. Read more

9 August 2007: The European Commission's Directorate General for Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders on monitoring and control: today's market, its evolution until 2020 and the impact of ICT (information and communication technologies) on these. Read more

9 August 2007: Finding out whether that unusual sore in your mouth is cancerous should become a lot faster and easier in the years ahead. Read more

7 August 2007: Pulp and paper plants in the future may operate at lower energy levels as the result of a new joint technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Swagelok Company of Solon, Ohio. Read more

6 August 2007: Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave--to literally “self-assemble”. Read more

6 August 2007: The European Commission has published the first joint call for proposals within the thematic area “Information and Communication Technologies” (ICT) and “Security” of the 7^th Framework Programme. Read more

6 August 2007: Britain's Department of Transport has launched a Web site designed to let new car buyers choose the most environmentally friendly vehicle for their needs. Read more

6 August 2007: Comission has issued a joint call for proposals for the 'Information and Communication Technologies' and 'Security' themes of the Cooperation Programme under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more

3 August 2007: Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time. Read more

2 August 2007: CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Service has launched a new environment information service under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read more

31 July 2007: German scientists have developed a new software tool capable of identifying pictures of chemical structures in patent files. The aim is to make these pictures computer-readable and retrievable. Read more

31 July 2007: The Committee recommends a long-term cohort study to find out more about the long term effects of mobile phone use, as well as a study using personal dosimeters to accurately assess individual exposure to RF fields. Read more

31 July 2007: A workshop to prepare a new agenda for science communication will be held in Strasbourg, France from 8 to 10 November. The event is organised by the EU-funded EARTHWAKE project, which aims to use the appeal of popular strands of European TV to create a new awareness and interest in science. Read more

31 July 2007: The European Defence Agency has issued a call for tenders concerning disruptive COTS (commercial off-the-shelf technologies) development in the IT (information technology) area. Read more

31 July 2007: EDIT, the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, is organising a meeting on DNA barcoding in Europe, which will take place from 3 to 5 October in Leiden, the Netherlands. Read more

27 July 2007: A conference entitled 'Interoperability in iGovernment' will take place in Rome, Italy from 11 to 12 October. Read more

27 July 2007: EU-IndiaGrid, the European and Indian Grids for e-Science Network Community, is organising a training workshop, which will take place from 24 to 28 September in Pune, India. Read more

27 July 2007: Following a year of research and development, the EU-funded BRIDGE project is now preparing five pilots to test Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. Read more

26 July 2007: The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers. Read more

26 July 2007: The European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General has published a call for tenders for a study on the potential of the 'Living Labs' approach including its relation to experimental facilities for future Internet-related technologies. Read more

25 July 2007: Imagine a chip, strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial arm just by thinking about it. Read more

25 July 2007: The cancer risk from CTCA for women in their twenties seems to be much higher than for other groups. Read more

25 July 2007: Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions. Read more

24 July 2007: The Polymer Department at Risø-DTU invites applications for a postdoctoral position in biopolymer nanocomposites research as part of a project funded in 2007 by the Danish Strategic Research Council. Read more

24 July 2007: All materials and products eventually come to the end of their useful life, and those made with nanotechnology are no different. Read more

24 July 2007: The notion of generating electricity from flowing blood, pulsating blood vessels, or a beating heart may seem like science fiction. But scientists are reporting a stride in that direction in the August 8 issue of ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal, with development a more powerful nanogenerator for powering implantable biomedical devices and other small electronics. Read more

24 July 2007: By taking advantage of the full range of ways in which molecules can interact with and bind to one another, a team of investigators at the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created nanoparticles that assemble themselves layer by layer. These nanoparticles, which contain two different types of imaging agents, also contain Read more

24 July 2007: As a surgeon performs a minimally invasive procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, surgeons observing in Boston or Mexico City or London will notice a remarkable improvement in clarity, compared to the view they would have had in the past. Read more

24 July 2007: More efficient and less costly solar cells, solid-state lighting and industrial catalysts are potential applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD), Read more

23 July 2007: A new service has been launched by CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, as part of the effort to coordinate Europe's extensive research activities. Read more

23 July 2007: The European Commission has authorised Germany to give EUR 120 million to researchers to work on the Internet search engine technologies project THESEUS. Read more

23 July 2007: Hospital officials said it's the longest stay the cardiothoracic ICU has had, and that a lot of technology was used to keep Wilson Guthrie alive. The lifesaving device is in clinical trials and hasn't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Read more

23 July 2007: Working with an organic semiconductor, electrical-engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated and tested two similar but slightly different biosensors that can measure important physiological signs. Read more

20 July 2007: The European Commission has awarded an 'excellent' rating to the OPERA 2 (Open PLC European Research Alliance) project, which aims to develop an open standard for the next generation of powerline technology. Read more

20 July 2007: The new, high-tech i-LIMB bionic hand, with five motorized fingers, will soon be sold in Britain for about $17,000, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Read more

20 July 2007: The International Space Station is now accessible in cyberspace, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday. Read more

20 July 2007: An international collaboration by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the University of Chicago, and the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology developed a simple method to comb whole genomes for all the software fixes and security patches accumulated over time. Read more

20 July 2007: A tumor paint developed by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by illuminating the cancerous cells. Read more

19 July 2007: An international collaboration at the Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory has demonstrated a new technique for studying particles traveling at one-third the speed of light. Read more

19 July 2007: A basic scientist in the Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson has shared a patent on what may someday be a ubiquitous tool in DNA analysis. The discovery could have a range of applications, from forensics to cloning to bioterrorism. Read more

18 July 2007: The Civilian European Land-Robot Trial (C_ELROB) will take place in Monte Ceneri, Switzerland, from 13 to 16 August. Read more

18 July 2007: Leading European economics libraries have won a EUR 2 million contract to create a networked service providing open access to economics information and showcasing Europe's leading research results. Read more

18 July 2007: The European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General has published a call for tenders for a study on requirements and options for actions in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in healthcare. Read more

18 July 2007: More than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical disability, according to the 2005 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large percentage of these persons have little or no use of their hands to manipulate a computer or access the Internet. Read more

18 July 2007: A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. Read more

18 July 2007: Using innovative physics, researchers have proposed a system that may one day bring proton therapy, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment method currently available only at a handful of centers, to radiation treatment centers and cancer patients everywhere. Read more

17 July 2007:  An EU-funded project into palpable computing has cruised through its toughest test to date. Read more

17 July 2007:  A new EUR 2.45 million research programme has been launched in Ireland, focusing on mobile phone technology. Read more

17 July 2007:  The first soil moisture maps with a spatial resolution of one km are available online for the entire southern African subcontinent. As soil moisture plays an important role in the global water cycle, these maps, based on data from ESA’s Envisat satellite, will lead to better weather and extreme-event forecasting, such as floods and droughts.  Read more

17 July 2007:  Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization in the silicon.This demonstration by NRL scientists is a key enabling step for developing devices which rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, a field known as semiconductor spintronics, and is expected to provide higher performance with lower power consumption and heat dissipation.  Read more

16 July 2007: A new worldwide scientific portal has gone online, offering researchers and interested members of the public free access to more than 200 million pages of international research information. Read more.

16 July 2007: An information day on the second call of the 'Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)' programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel on 23 July. Read more

16 July 2007: One is at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. Outfitted with cameras, a screen and microphone, the joystick-controlled robot is guided into the rooms of Dr. Alex Gandsas' patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there. Read more

16 July 2007: The European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have accomplished a milestone by setting up the first dynamic user-requested high-speed circuit between Ireland and Greece. Read more

16 July 2007: Testing exhaled breath with a small sensor array can detect lung cancer with moderate accuracy, researchers report. Read more

13 July 2007: Unique technology that uses the enzymes of fireflies to read the genetic code of DNA has been installed at the University of Liverpool. Read more

13 July 2007: High-tech dental lasers used mainly to prepare cavities for restoration now can help eliminate bacteria in root canals., The study, conducted by researchers in Austria, credits the development of miniaturized, flexible fiber tips for allowing the laser to be used in endodontic (root canal) treatment. Read more

13 July 2007: For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. Read more

12 July 2007: U.S. scientists are developing a technology that allows mobile electronic devices to communicate by sending vibrations through bones. Read more

11 July 2007: The EU's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has issued a call for tenders for a study on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) in primary schools. Read more

11 July 2007: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is not yet sophisticated enough to pose a threat to our privacy. But this could change in the very near future, and measures must be in place to safeguard personal data and secure personal freedom for when that change occurs. Read more

11 July 2007: Typically, photons can pass by one another unchanged. However, a number of important scientific and technological applications can be enabled by using matter as a medium for photons to talk with one another. The problem? These interactions are generally weak. Read more

11 July 2007: Israeli scientists have developed a mobile math lab application for cell phones, providing students with experiential, interactive ways to learn math. Read more

11 July 2007: Scientists have produced a novel type of nanoparticle that they say could make it possible to dramatically increase magnetic-based data storage on future generations of computer hard drives. Read more

10 July 2007: ROSEMEAD, California (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. on Monday announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace. Read more

10 July 2007: The increasingly high-tech US military always needs better batteries. So its research branch, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) based in Virginia, US, is funding a project to develop betavoltaic batteries – cells that generate current from radioactive materials that emit electrons (so-called beta emitters). Read more

10 July 2007: Nanotechnology researcher Angela Belcher is working with viruses to make them do good things. By exploiting a virus's ability to replicate rapidly and combine with semiconductor and electronic materials, she is coaxing them to grow and self-assemble nanomaterials into a functional electronic device. Read more

10 July 2007: CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has launched an online service to provide comprehensive coverage of the research and innovation initiatives to be carried out under the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council (1 July to 31 December 2007). Read more

9 July 2007: The 'Fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference' will take place from 19 to 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will aim to demonstrate the positive impact of e-government on the European economy and citizens' welfare. Read more

9 July 2007: Scientists have come up with a tiny generator that could power embedded electronic devices such as pacemakers without the need for batteries. Read more

9 July 2007: Transforming Finland into an information society is the goal of a new action plan recently unveiled by the Finnish Government. The plan, which covers 2007 to 2011, addresses the practical steps needed to develop a ubiquitous information society. Read more

9 July 2007: A conference entitled 'Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences on Knowledge Dissemination' will be held in Padova, Italy, from 19 to 21 September. Read more

9 July 2007: With the help of a supercomputer and a clever algorithm, scientists can now pinpoint how specific viral mutations allow HIV to hide from the body's defences, and thereby wreak havoc within cells. Read more

9 July 2007: BLOODchip is currently the safest and most precise technique for genetically determining blood groups, enabling the reduction of adverse reactions in blood transfusions. Read more

5 July 2007: A sugar-cube-sized electric generator that feeds on environmental vibrations has been developed. It could power swarms of wireless sensors or even medical implants, researchers claim. Read more

5 July 2007: New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors, and the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions on surfaces. Read more

5 July 2007: By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny particles one at a time. Read more

4 July 2007: The EU-funded technology research project GUIDE (Government User Identity for Europe) offers a technological, institutional, policy and socioeconomic forum for secure and interoperable e-government electronic identity services and transactions for Europe. Read more

4 July 2007: There are some real challenges ahead for chip designers, particularly in moving deeper and deeper into the nanoscale, where at some point in the near future they will reach physical limits of the traditional logic MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) structure. Read more

4 July 2007: Electromagnetically-induced transparency, or EIT, has been known in the visible realm for quite some time. The process is used to control such characteristics as dispersion and absorption in gases, allowing the gases to become transparent at a certain wavelength from an interacting laser. Until now, EIT has not been used in x-rays. Read more

4 July 2007: The European Commission has launched a public consultation on ways to strengthen the global competitiveness of Europe's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries. These are the ICT regulatory framework and associated issues, such as intellectual property rights; research and innovation; and social aspects, such as bridging the digital divide. Read more

3 July 2007: What is the best method of communicating the results of European scientific research? This question is more and more frequently the focus of debate around Europe as science and communication increasingly intertwine. Recognising this trend, the European Commission is taking steps to be at the forefront of this development. Read more

3 July 2007: Argonne reached another milestone in the design and construction of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) undulator system.. It will be the first X-ray laser to combine the brilliance of laser sources with the penetrating power and atomic sensitivity of X-rays. Read more

2 July 2007: Pseudo-satellites, ground-based substitutes used when signals from ‘real’ satellites are not available, can deliver accurate positioning information in places where conventional solutions fail. This was demonstrated on 27 June in Helsinki harbour as part of a project supported by ESA. Read more 

2 July 2007: The European conference on complex systems will be held in Dresden, Germany, from 1 to 5 October. The goals of this annual conference are to reflect on recent progress in the field of complexity science and to significantly increase the actively involved community. Read more

2 July 2007: The 14th edition of EuroAnalysis will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 9 to 14 September 2007. The emphasis of this year's event will be on the essential role that analytical chemistry plays in the preservation of humankind's natural and cultural environment. Read more.

29 June 2007: In the race to make computers more powerful, magnets may be out and lasers may be in. Ultra-rapid pulses of polarized light fired from lasers, new tests show, can outperform conventional magnetic data writers by as much as two orders of magnitude. The technology could form the foundation of a new generation of computers that link lasers to their hard drives. read more

29 June 2007: The European Commission has relaunched its award-winning science film portal, AthenaWeb, with the aim of boosting science film production and circulation in Europe. read more

29 June 2007: The European Commission has launched a call for proposals for pilot projects for cooperation between European Institutes of Technology. read more

29 June 2007: An EU-funded consortium will address one of the perceived barriers for the adoption of open source software and prove once and for all that software which is free and publishes its source code, is capable of outperforming anything else on the market. ‘Flossquality.eu’ is an initiative made up of the three EU research projects: QUALOSS, FLOSSMETRICS and SQO-OSS, demonstrating a strong commitment between partners involved in different projects. The intention is that this initiative will facilitate access to information by disseminating news via a joint RSS feed. ‘Flossquality.eu’ will transform the cooperative way of working between these corresponding projects into hard evidence regarding software quality in an open source. read more

28 June 2007: The first supercomputer capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second has been announced by IBM. This is roughly equivalent to the combined processing power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers. read more

28 June 2007: As healthcare fraud across Europe reaches a staggering estimated cost of EUR 30 billion per year, an EU-funded project is developing a digital detective to investigate healthcare cheats. Read more

27 June 2007: After months of negotiations, ministers attending the EU's Competitiveness Council on 25 June reached agreement on a 'general approach' to a draft regulation to establish a European Institute of Technology (EIT). Read more

26 June 2007: European Council urges forward movement on JTIs, EIT and Galileo. The European Council is confident that the final decision of Council and European Parliament will be taken before the end of this year. Read more

25 June 2007: A team of chemists at Brown University have devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage, but have been difficult to make in bulk. read more

22 June 2007: The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has released a software tool to help chemical companies comply with the new REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation. read more

22 June 2007: An international summer school on grid computing will take place from 8 to 20 July in Mariefred, Sweden. read more

22 June 2007: The lack of comprehensive high-quality data makes it difficult for weather models to provide accurate predictions for rainfall. This can result in great damage or even loss of life if severe weather warnings are delivered late or not at all. This is particularly true for upland areas. So in order to get a handle on the problem, the Delft University of Technology has decided to participate in a major international experiment in the Black Forest, Germany, which will help scientists to better understand the causes of rain. Running from 1 June to 1 September 2007, the experiment is using an airship and other aircraft, as well as ground-based observations. read more

22 June 2007: Photo-detectors that analyse scattered light in the ultraviolet (UV) range of the spectrum are often used in situations where the rapid detection of hazardous biological and chemical agents in air is required. Each type of material demonstrates a sort of optical fingerprint; this can be shown, for example, by laser excitation. To this end, photo-detectors with an extremely narrow bandwidth are required, which only respond to particular wavelengths. Enter European and Indian scientists, who teamed up to offer the world an innovative solution. Their work was published in the journal Applied Physics Letters in February 2007. read more

22 June 2007: The European Commission's Environment Directorate-General has issued a call for tenders concerning a biodiversity knowledge base. The overall objective of the present contract is to assist the Commission in the development of an information system to support the biodiversity policy cycle in the EU. read more

21 June 2007: A new EUR160 million technology programme on safety and security has been launched by Tekes, the Finnish National Technology Agency. The programme's priorities are in line with those of the new 'Security' thematic area of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read more

21 June 2007: An intelligent system that can tell mechanics which parts of a car need servicing was unveiled on 18 June at a European technology show in Strasbourg, France. read more

20 June 2007: Call for proposals EAC/26/07 - Pilot projects for cooperation between European Institutes of Technology. Deadline : 15 August 2007. This call for proposals aims at establishing pilot networks that will design, implement and test new models of integrated partnerships between the actors involved in technological innovation and transfer (such as universities, research organisations, small, medium-sized and large companies, innovation centres, etc.). read more

20 June 2007: Call for proposals - Information and Communication Technologies. Deadline: 09 October 2007 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). read more

19 June 2007: The speed of collaborative research based on Europe's network of supercomputers has become quicker than ever thanks to a new major upgrade. The EU-funded project, Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), has increased its connectivity speeds ten-fold to 10 gigabits per second, through the GÉANT2 pan-European research and education network. read more

19 June 2007: A one-day workshop entitled 'ICT for active ageing at work' will take place on 5 July in Brussels, Belgium. read more

18 June 2007: A device that can hold hundreds of atoms in a 3D array, and image each one individually, has been developed by scientists in the US. The machine is an important stepping stone towards the development of a quantum computer, they say. read more

18 June 2007: The European Commission has adopted an action plan on 'Ageing well in the information society', and has proposed a new research initiative on the same theme, to be supported under Article 169 of the Treaty. read more

15 June 2007: Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The Delft researchers are publishing an article about this important step towards a workable quantum computer in this week’s issue of Nature. read more

14 June 2007: The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the eParticipation Preparatory Action. eParticipation aims to harness the benefits of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve legislative and decision-making processes, and to enhance public participation in such processes at all levels of government decision-making. read more

14 June 2007: The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the Cooperation Specific Programme: Information and Communication Technologies of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read more

13 June 2007: The Ninth European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology will take place from 3 to 5 October in San Sebastian, Spain. read more

13 June 2007: The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the Cooperation Specific Programme: Information and Communication Technologies of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read more

12 June 2007: Output and turnover growth has been significantly higher in the high-technology manufacturing sector than for less technology-intensive activities, according to new figures from Eurostat. read more

12 June 2007: E-skills are one of the building blocks for European competitiveness and prosperity in the 21st century, while the way forward to widening and deepening e-skills in Europe is through dialogue with stakeholders, said Günter Verheugen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, at the launch of the Industry Leadership Board. read more

12 June 2007: A workshop on immersive projection technology, together with a symposium on virtual environments, will take place in Weimar, Germany, from 12 to 15 July. read more

6 June 2007: As information and communication technologies bring many benefits to societies, an EU funded project is aiming to help bridge the digital divide in South America by developing interactive broadband services via satellites. The BRASIL (Broadband to Rural America over Satellite Integrated Links) project, whose motto, 'Broadband any Place via Space', reflects its mission to harness satellite technology in order to deliver broadband services to companies and isolated households across South America. read more

5 June 2007: EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has applauded efforts in Greece to catch up with the rest of the EU in broadband access and coverage, but called for further policy measures, principally in regulation, to guarantee Greece a place at 'the forefront of broadband innovation'. read more

5 June 2007: With the race on to build knowledge economies worldwide, many academic institutions are looking at new ways to increase the diffusion of their knowledge. One option is the use of open educational resources (OER), which, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is a rapidly growing phenomenon that offers learning opportunities to an unprecedented number of users worldwide. At the same time, this new trend is challenging established views and practices of how teaching is organised and carried out, and how knowledge is shared. read more

5 June 2007: An information day on the 'eParticipation' call for proposals will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 29 June. read more

31 May 2007: A recently launched project could make it easier to rescue vulnerable people lost in the urban jungle. The CityBee project, funded by the EU's Sixth Framework Programme, is working on developing a low-cost wireless metropolitan network based on Location Based Services (LBS) wireless technology, which could be used for locating and providing useful services to lost citizens. read more

31 May 2007: A new EU-funded project is using robots to help disabled children learn how to play. Playing is an important part of childhood; through play, children learn about the physical and social environment, the self and how to develop social relationships. However, children with cognitive, developmental or physical disabilities may find it harder to play. This affects their learning potential and can result in them becoming socially isolated. read more

30 May 2007: An international information technology (IT) security conference entitled 'innovation and responsibility' will take place on 4 and 5 June in Berlin, Germany. read more

30 May 2007: The European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders for a study on the economic impact of interoperable electronic health record and e-prescription in Europe. read more

28 May 2007: The SEE-Innovation Project second mentoring workshop will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 7 June 2007. The event is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that want to find project partners or coordinators for the ICT (information and communication technologies) theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The workshop will be project-oriented, and will be mainly composed of networking sessions. In addition to general and technical information on ICT challenges, networking sessions will include project idea presentations. read more

25 May 2007: As Europe pursues its goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, it is seeking to develop the infrastructure needed to power the next generation of Grid technologies. Grid technologies connect computers and scientific instruments, bringing together users from around the world and from different companies in a single, 'virtual' organisation. In turn, members of this virtual organisation can share knowledge instantly and easily access and store shared data. read more

24 May 2007: A basic agreement on the European Institute of Technology (EIT) can be expected in June, said German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan following a meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 21 and 22 May. read more

24 May 2007: The fourth annual ARTEMIS Conference will be held in Berlin, Germany on 4 and 5 June 2007. Currently a European Technology Platform, ARTEMIS is now set to be the new Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) on embedded systems research. As well as the latest in embedded systems research, the event will also present the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking. read more

23 May 2007: A networking workshop dedicated to adopting e-infrastructures, business challenges and user needs will be held on 7 June 2007 in Hamburg, Germany after the 4th EU Conference on Research Infrastructures. read more

21 May 2007: The IANIS+ eGovernment Policy Seminar will take place on 25 May in Brussels, Belgium. read more

21 May 2007: The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics recently increased its numbers to 18 following the addition of two Polish universities, the University of Warsaw and the University of Wroclaw. The two universities formed a consortium of their own in a move to become the Polish branch of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, or ERCIM, network which fosters international research cooperation in ICT. Poland joins Hungary and the Czech Republic as the third country from the 2004 ascension states to join the network. The newly established branch, the Polish Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, or PLERCIM, hopes to serve as a conduit for increased cooperation between Polish researchers and their European colleagues. read more

17 May 2007: The European Commission is now on the road to creating the first ever Europe-wide public-private partnerships to boost research and development, having adopted proposals for initiatives in two strategic industrial sectors. The Commission presented two Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), worth approximately €5 billion, on embedded computing systems, to be known as ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems), and on innovative medicines (Innovative Medicines Initiative). read more

16 May 2007: Road safety is a major concern in Europe, with around 40,000 people dying in road accidents every year, and more than 1.7 million sustaining injuries. The EU-funded Highway project has climbed into the driving seat and developed a pioneering traffic information service which it hopes will reduce the number of road accidents. read more

16 May 2007: The European Association of Automotive Suppliers, CLEPA, will host a technology day entitled 'Future automotive technologies: road safety, environment and intelligent components' on 27 June in Brussels, Belgium. read more

16 May 2007: Meteorological services centres in Europe and abroad are eager to collect the latest findings from the European research and development project SIMDAT. So far, the consortium SIMDAT Meteo has been focused on establishing a Virtual Global Information System Centre (VGISC) for the national meteorological services of France, Germany and the UK. With EUR 11 million in financing from the European Commission, and coordinated by the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), SIMDAT has its sight set on speeding up the uptake of grid technologies in industry and services the world over. read more

16 May 2007: The European Network of Excellence HUMANIST (Human Centred Design for Information Society Technologies) will hold a tutorial on 'Safety and design of new transport technologies' in Lyon, France, on 21 and 22 June 2007. read more

15 May 2007: In the dying days of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Stasi officers were ordered to destroy their reports by shredding and then burning them. So numerous were the reports, that shredding machines stopped working, and officers were forced to tear the documents by hand. A problem with transport meant that the estimated 45 million A4 sheets of paper were not burned. read more

14 May 2007: The European Commission has given the green light to EUR 37.6 million in French state aid to 'Unlimited Mobile TV', a research project on broadcasting television over mobile telephones. read more

14 May 2007: A conference on e-infrastructures will take place from 25 to 28 June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. read more

11 May 2007: An information day on the second call of the information and communications technologies (ICT) programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place on 22 May in Brussels, Belgium. The event will provide an introduction to the ICT work programme, as well as information the thematic area's second call 'Accessible and inclusive ICT'. Participants will be given the opportunity to present project proposal ideas during the event. read more

11 May 2007: i2010, the flagship principle of the renewed Lisbon partnership for growth and employment, calls for the further development of Europe’s broadband infrastructure. A group of European firms has joined up to do just that. The three firms have come together under the auspices of the EUREKA programme, which encourages market focussed R&D among its members, to study ways of delivering broadband internet access over traditional cable television lines. read more

11 May 2007: A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of communist East Germany's dreaded State Security Service (Stasi). read more

10 May 1007: The Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society (IANIS+) will hold an e-infrastructure policy seminar on 16 May in Brussels, Belgium. read more

9 May 2007: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Research and Business Organization (Tur&Bo) Brussels, together with the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate General are organising an information and communications technologies (ICT) networking event, followed by a reception, for 22 May in Brussels, Belgium. read more

9 May 2007: Multitel, a scientific technology research centre based in the Walloon region of Belgium, is organising a networking event followed by a reception on 23 May in Gosselies, Belgium. read more

9 May 2007: A 3-D technology developed to help NASA astronauts practice making repairs in space is set to revolutionize the way people watch movies by 2009, when a wave of live-action 3-D movies hit theaters. read more

8 May 2007: A series of workshops on e-inclusion research will take place on 21 May in Brussels, Belgium. read more

7 May 2007: IBM uses self-assembling material in chip advance. IBM has developed a way to make microchips run up to one-third faster or use 15 percent less power by using an exotic material that "self-assembles" in a similar way to a seashell or snowflake. read more

7 May 2007: TER@TEC 2007, a conference on high performance computing, will take place on 20 June in Versailles, France. read more

4 May 2007: Identifying the benefits of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and promoting their development is the goal of a new Communication adopted by the European Commission on 2 May. The right to the protection of personal data is enshrined in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the Data Protection and ePrivacy Directives set out in detail the obligations of the data controller as well as what happens if a data subject's rights are breached. read more

3 May 2007: Although Europe is good at coming up with ideas, it could do better in turning these ideas into products. This innovation challenge is the starting point for a new online business networking portal. i-techpartner aims to connect researchers and technology transfer offices with small and medium-sized innovative companies, innovation experts, corporate partners and venture capital investors throughout Europe. read more

3 May 2007: The 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 1 to 5 July. read more

1 May 2007: The drive to get European citizens to go digital would appear to be gradually paying off, according to the findings of an EU-wide survey. It finds that more than half of European households have a computer - 4% more than in a similar study done at the end of 2006, while increasing numbers of people are switching to broadband and wireless internet access. read more

1 May 2007: The Irish Government has launched a new EUR 2 million 'Tech-Check' programme to help small businesses make better use of technology. read more

30 April 2007: A team of researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption. read more

30 April 2007: MEDEA+, the European industry-led initiative for advanced cooperative research and development (R&D) in microelectronics, will host a conference on design automation in Grenoble, France, from 22 to 24 May. read more

30 April 2007: Annoyed by the tangle of power cords under your desk? A sheet of plastic invented by researchers in Japan could one day make for tables and walls that power devices placed on them — without any need for wires or plugs. Computers could be powered through the desks on which they sit, for example, or flat-screen televisions through the walls where they hang. read more

26 April 2007: An international symposium on bioinformatics will take place from 25 to 27 June in Barcelona, Spain. Co-organised by INFOBIOMED and SEMANTIC MINING, two Networks of Excellence, the event will serve as a forum to present results obtained, and for discussing current issues surrounding biomedical informatics. read more

26 April 2007: A workshop on future e-inclusion themes for the work programme of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) will take place on 15 May in Brussels, Belgium. read more

24 April 2007: A Dutch-Finnish partnership with funding from EUREKA has developed technology to provide high-speed Internet access through existing copper coaxial cable TV connections without the need for a modem. read more

23 April 2007: EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have adopted a common declaration on their commitment to pursue structured cooperation on cross-border electronic health services across Europe. 'By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the future, electronic health services for Europe's citizens do not stop at national borders,' said the German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder. read more

23 April 2007: Europe’s digital infrastructure recently received a boost with the announcement that a new converged optical-data network has been successfully brought online. The new network, linking Europe’s educational and research networks, will enable scientists to communicate and share data with maximum reliability and protection. High speed core links are designed to carry up to 40 connections of 10Gb/s each, allowing speedier transmission of information, further integrating the European research community. read more

23 April 2007: RXP is British Council's contestable international fund for young researchers. Awards of up to £5,000 are available to fund collaborations between NZ and UK scientists. RXP is designed to help develop new research links between higher education institutions and research laboratories in the UK and other countries. RXP funding can cover travel and living costs for a short-term collaboration of between one week and three months duration. The research link can be in any area of science, engineering and technology, including social sciences and humanities. RXP is open to 'early stage researchers'. This means applicants must either obtained a doctoral qualification or be within twelve months of completing one; have no more than two years full tenure in a university or research institute; have no more than six years overall active researcher experience.See http://www.britishcouncil.org/nz-opportunities-rxp.htm

20 April 2007: EU Member States have given the green light to the agreement on research and development activities in the field of intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS). The decision was adopted at a recent meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. read more

20 April 2007: Do you remember the 'USD100 one laptop per child' project developed by the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nicholas Negroponte? Well, the idea has crossed the Atlantic and been given a European twist in the form of an EU funded project to assist Europe's increasing elderly population. The recently launched Older People's e-services at home (OLDES) project will develop an easy-to-use, plug-and-play technological platform for tele-assistance and tele-company which should retail at the low cost of €100 per person. read more