IT Hardware & Industrial Computing Feature Articles

A new open source application developed at Murdoch University is giving researchers a revolutionary new way of accessing supercomputers.

Scramble for market share by big Wi-Fi chipset vendors will ensure 5GHz band, 1Gbps 802.11ac wireless technology rapidly makes its way into consumers’ home networks

Scientists at The University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom have discovered a way to control how tiny flat molecules fit together in a seemingly random pattern.

Hard Disk Drive shortages caused by worst Thai floods in half a century are likely to raise prospects for solid state drives if only for premium portable PCs.

A change of strategy enables engineers to customise their approach for testing smaller, faster products.

An embedded low power processor, popular in portable devices, is now shipping nearly three billion units per year.

Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a way of increasing the data recording density of hard disks, and humble table salt is the key ingredient in ...

CEOs have been told to look beyond to the current gloomy economic news, and take intelligently aggressive steps to capitalise on the mega-trends transforming business.

Graphene, the world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, has received a huge research boost in the UK, set to bring the material into mainstream global commercialisation. ...

A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT in the United States allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

Groundbreaking Australian photonics research has taken a tiny but huge step forward in the development of the photonic chip.

Thousands of tonnes of toxic e-waste are entering the world’s atmosphere, oceans, fresh waters, soils and foodstuffs every year. This is now spreading round the planet, including ...

Ford Motor Company and an open-source hardware and software provider are teaming up to explore how to make in-car connectivity more available, affordable and personalised for the ...

A team of researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a manufacturing technology for single-crystal thin films of ...

New standard eliminates module connector from the SATA interface easing embedded implementations.

Since Steve Jobs' return to Apple Inc in 1997 as CEO, the company has been on an unparalleled upswing, highlighted by the immense popularity of the iPad and iPhone.

Texting and driving don't go well together - though not in the way you might think.

As consumers crave ever faster, smaller, and more powerful PCs and data storage devices, a new method of making molecules could eventually produce nanomaterials that will allow ...

A new standard aims to deliver the benefits of ZigBee technology via the Internet.

Innovative Australians are improving the things they make and the way they make them, ensuring a fairer, richer, healthier and greener future.