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Article | 16/03/2011 Display tech to watch this year: Haptics create a buzz

If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the trend. Haptics provide tactile feedback to your fingers as y...

Article | 15/03/2011 Four red-hot display technologies to watch in 2011

The apps on your smartphone might be brilliant, but what about the display? Emerging technologies could soon deliver the richer, Wizard of Oz Technico...

Article | 9/03/2011 Display tech to watch this year: Multitouch catches fire

Touch-screen panels have been around for more than a decade, but it was the 2007 introduction of a multitouch screen in Apple's iPhone that galvanized...

Article | 7/01/2011 Will touch screens kill the keyboard?

Thanks to a handful of emerging technologies, virtual touch-screen keyboards are getting closer to the feel of real electromechanical keyboards. Enhan...

Article | 7/12/2010 IT networking gear goes green

Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

Article | 9/11/2010 The scary side of virtualization

At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure...

Article | 14/10/2010 Ice balls help data center go green

Green isn't usually the first color that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 ...

Article | 14/09/2010 Cloud promises savings, delivers speed

In the time it takes to get a cup of coffee, any one of the hundreds of engineers and developers at mobile computing chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. can prov...

Article | 29/04/2010 Corporate e-mail in the cloud: Google vs. Microsoft

E-mail is the third rail of enterprise IT operations. You can mess up elsewhere, but bring down people's e-mail and you'll start getting irate calls l...

Article | 10/03/2010 US technologists give Windows 7 the green light

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista -- but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter.

Article | 30/12/2009 Step 2: Virtual Server Consolidation

OK, you've virtualized as much as you can. Now what? Consolidating physical servers through virtualization doesn't address underlying complexities bec...

Article | 30/12/2009 Forecast 2010: Servers get a makeover in 2010

The recession may have forced Media General Inc. to scale back its grand plans for server virtualization in 2009, but like many other businesses, the ...

Article | 20/10/2009 Hijacked Web sites attack visitors

Here's the scenario: Attackers compromise a major brand's Web site. But instead of stealing customer records, the attacker installs malware that infec...

Article | 20/10/2009 Scams & shams: The trouble with social networks

It's hard to understand who in their right mind would want to incur the wrath of "Triple H," the intimidating superstar of professional wrestling. But...

Article | 29/07/2009 Data centers go underground

As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a gl...

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