Nick Barber - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 20/06/2008 Weekly Tech News Update: June 20th, 2008

WiMAX ready to launch, Verizon expands FiOS, Microsoft and Nortel partner, Intel shows off a new robot, Australia gets an Apple store, Tokyo shows off...

Article | 19/06/2008 Digital Downtown: product showcase

At the Consumer Electronics Associations' Digital Downtown event in New York City a number of new products were on display. While this was no Las Veg...

Article | 17/06/2008 Economic downturn has small impact on consumer electronics industry

The Consumer Electronics Association hosted Digital Downtown where analysts discussed how it's faring in the worldwide economic downturn.

Article | 13/06/2008 Intel research day features more than just chips

Intel went to the home of technology past to show off what it's working on for the future

Article | 13/06/2008 Weekly Tech News Update: June 13th, 2008

Several die in an attack in Tokyo's electronics district, Apple's iPhone 3G launches, Roadrunner smashes the petaflop barrier, the Telectroscope lets ...

Article | 13/06/2008 Enterprise 2.0 offers social networking applications, collaboration tools and more

At the Enterprise 2.0 conference vendors and attendees mixed and mingled with vendors pushing new social networking and collaboration applications and...

Article | 11/06/2008 WWDC: iPhone 2.0 offers a number of new applications and features

The iPhone 3G dominated the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, but attendees also got a glimpse of new software coming fo...

Article | 11/06/2008 Telectroscope connects New York and London

The fictional story behind the Telectroscope says there is an undersea tunnel that connects New York and London and allows viewers in the two cities t...

Article | 11/06/2008 Airline boarding passes on your phone

At a number of US airports Continental Airlines passengers can now carry their boarding passes with them on their smart phones.

Article | 10/06/2008 WWDC: iPhone 3G launches

No news for some, but Steve Jobs announced the 3G version of Apple's iPhone. Now with GPS and enterprise-centric features

Article | 10/06/2008 Supercomputer surpasses petaflop barrier

A computer built by IBM and commissioned by the US government has surpassed the petaflop barrier and can perform more than one thousand trillion calcu...

Article | 10/06/2008 COMPUTEX: Sights of Computex 2008

A wrap of some of the sights and sounds of this year's Computex show

Article | 6/06/2008 Weekly Tech News Update: June 6th, 2008

On this week's show: Computex news, Bill Gates' last speech, Korea fines Intel, NASA's Phoenix Lander and more.

Article | 6/06/2008 Harvard Square launches free public Wi-Fi

Normally home to the exchange of ideas and one of the world's top universities, Harvard Square can now host the exchange of data, too.

Article | 5/06/2008 TECH ED: Bill Gates' last public speech and Steve Ballmer robot

Bill Gates delivered his last speech as a full-time Microsoft employee, and Steve Ballmer makes an unexpected appearance..