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Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory
Sunday, 20 May, 2012 – 10:54 | No Comment
Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory

Does the word ReRAM ring a bell? No?

ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent (updated: MMI responds)
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 21:21 | No Comment
ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent (updated: MMI responds)

At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola’s mobile devices infringe a bit of Microsoft’s IP. Now, the Commission has affirmed that decision and issued an exclusion order to ban Moto’s offending devices from importation into the US

Gogo and AeroSat get friendly on Ku-band, bring international in-flight WiFi closer
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 20:34 | No Comment
Gogo and AeroSat get friendly on Ku-band, bring international in-flight WiFi closer

Gogo has a virtual lock on in-flight WiFi for the US, but most of us forget that everything goes dark the moment you decide to cross the border. The company already has a deal with Inmarsat for Ka-band Internet connections, and now it’s partnering up with AeroSat to bring Ku-band satellite access

ZTE confirms the Score M has a backdoor, hopes to patch up soon
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 16:29 | No Comment
ZTE confirms the Score M has a backdoor, hopes to patch up soon

Who knew that owning a ZTE Score M would mean living life on the edge? ZTE has confirmed that the MetroPCS phone has a backdoor vulnerability which could let a less-than-scrupulous hacker get root-level control over the Android 2.3 phone — and because it’s a unique app baked into the firmware, the login credentials won’t change as long as the exploit survives. Other ZTE phones, like the Skate , supposedly face the same hole as well.

VIDEO: Technology and texting tips for MPs
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 13:08 | No Comment
VIDEO: Technology and texting tips for MPs

MPs have had their fingers burned by texting and technology, and may have regretted the odd text or tweet.

VIDEO: ‘Is Facebook worth $100 billion?’
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 10:17 | No Comment
VIDEO: ‘Is Facebook worth $100 billion?’

As Facebook floats itself on the stock exchange, technology experts attending the Future Everything conference in Manchester give their views on the company’s worth.

Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremecy
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 8:47 | No Comment
Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremecy

Graphene has long-held notions of grandeur over its current silicon overlord, but a few practical issues have always kept its takeover bid grounded. Samsung, however, thinks it’s cracked at least one of those — graphene’s inability to switch off current. Previous attempts to use graphene as a transistor have involved converting it to a semi-conductor , but this also reduces its electron mobility, negating much of the benefit

Doodle 4 Google winner cashes in with ‘Pirate Times’ drawing, finds a Chromebook in the treasure chest
Friday, 18 May, 2012 – 2:46 | No Comment
Doodle 4 Google winner cashes in with ‘Pirate Times’ drawing, finds a Chromebook in the treasure chest

Avast ye! Google has announced the national winner of its fifth annual Doodle 4 Google competition, and we’d like to congratulate second grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisconsin for his fine work. As a response to this year’s theme, “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…,” Dylan created a pirate scene doodle that features a vibrant parrot, a rotund swashbuckler and a treasure chest full of loot to form the Google logo.

Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step closer to knowing everything
Thursday, 17 May, 2012 – 4:36 | No Comment
Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step closer to knowing everything

Google just launched its Knowledge Graph , a tool intended to deliver more accurate information by analyzing the way users search. Of course, with a desire to provide better search results comes a need for improved site-reading capabilties. JavaScript and AJAX have traditionally put a wrench in Google bots’ journey through a webpage, but it looks like the search engine has developed some smarter specimens

Intel launches youth-focused iQ webzine, tells its brand story through aggregation
Thursday, 17 May, 2012 – 0:22 | No Comment
Intel launches youth-focused iQ webzine, tells its brand story through aggregation

It’s like Highlights for kids, but with a decidedly techno-centric spin.