Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene

Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene


Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

Sweden's Chalmers mixes up smaller, faster microwave electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have demonstrated a graphene-based transistor design that allows more compact RF mixer processing.…

Mobile software devs to link arms at CES

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Lobby group for the appocrats

A new cabal representing the interests of mobile application developers is to be launched at CES next week.…

Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST

$30m (or more) to net smaller fish

The appetite for cloudy infrastructure expertise continues apace in 2012. Managed-hosting and colocation services provider Internap has bolstered its position in the cloudy infrastructure peddling market by acquiring sometime-competitor Voxel for $30m.…

Rhino horn price spike drives record poaching

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

More than 400 taken to feed crime and superstition

Growing demand for quack cures derived from rhinoceros horn have driven horn street value to around $US65,000 per kilo, leading to a one-third increase in poaching from 2010 to 2011.…

SoundCloud gets US$50m for sonic growth

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:37 PM PST

Mary Meeker joins board

Berlin based social media audio sharing site SoundCloud has raised up to as rumoured US$50 million in funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.…

Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:13 PM PST

We come to bury IE, not to praise it

Microsoft is celebrating the news that Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) use in the US has officially dropped below one per cent of internet visits.…

Riverbed could snap up failed WAN optimiser for $10m

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST

Picking up assets cheap

Riverbed is reportedly looking to pick up failed WAN optimiser Expand Networks for $10m, a pittance.…

Sprint grants LightSquared last-minute stay of execution

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:34 AM PST

30 days to get FCC approval or wireless broadband dream is over

Sprint Nextel has given wireless broadband biz LightSquared until the end of January to get FCC approval for its network, putting a hard deadline on the viability of its revolutionary plan.…

Oracle VM whips rowdy virtual machines into submission

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST

Control freak hypervisor and VirtualBox updates unwrapped

Just in time for the holidays and giving techies an excuse to stay out of the kitchen and be helpful, Oracle unwrapped updates to its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor for x86 servers and the alternative VirtualBox hypervisor for x86-based PCs and servers.…

Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:28 AM PST

Bob Anderson - the man who made lightsaber work of Obi-Wan

Master swordsman Bob Anderson, the Hollywood fencing coach who wielded Darth Vader's lightsaber, died peacefully in a West Sussex hospital on Sunday, aged 89.…

How Apple won the West (and lost the world)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST

Android, even RIM and Java, taste victory

Open ... and Shut  The spread of high-end smart phones throughout the rich, developed world is largely made possible by expensive data plans. Such plans enable carriers to subsidise expensive iPhones and Android devices, to the point that even a big swath of teenagers in the Western world can realistically plan to buy iPhones and iPads.…

China's new year's resolution: Build a flash fab

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST

It wants to own all the chips at the table

Blocks and Files  China has no hard disk drive, DRAM and flash memory production facilities of its own – but that could change.…

Stratfor so very, very sorry in wake of mega-hack

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:01 AM PST

Private spook biz still reeling from credit card data raid

The website of global intelligence-analysing firm Stratfor remains offline - a week after hacktivists broke into its poorly secured systems and extracted passwords and credit card details.…

Asus asked to decrypt Eee tablet bootloader

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:37 AM PST

Let us hack our firmware, petitioners demand

Asus' decision to encrypt the bootloader built into its Eee Pad Transformer Prime has prompted prospective punters to petition for the practice to end.…

Boffins unimpressed by LOHAN's sizzling thruster

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:31 AM PST

Vulture 2 designers suggest mightier hybrid motor

The Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team has just about shaken off the effects of excessive Yule cheer, and is back at the workbench further pondering a potential powerplant for the Vulture 2 spaceplane.…

Iron digi-curtain: Belarus nationalises internet

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:05 AM PST

Massive fines to control foreign access

Europe's last Stalinist state could fine citizens half their salary for visiting foreign websites in a domestic clamp-down on the internet.…

Rupert Murdoch and 'unverified' missus in Twitter tangle

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST

Media mogul's account is real, Wendi_Deng is not

Updated  Despite his former disdain for the internet, media mogul Rupert Murdoch has joined the Twitterati, apparently with his wife in tow.…

Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:18 AM PST

GI Jobs

The popularity of collectable figurines may have declined from the golden years of Star Wars statues and Hulk Hogan toys, but when it comes to Apple fanboys, replica models of the late Steve Jobs are sure to be a hot property.…

Japan tasks Fujitsu with creating search-and-destroy cyber-weapon

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:05 AM PST

Zombie boss hunter developed in lab

Fujitsu has been commissioned to develop 'seek and destroy' malware, reportedly designed to track and disable the sources of cyber-attacks.…

Asus drops GPS from tablet spec after issues emerge

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:42 AM PST

Sleeping satellite?

Asus has dropped the word 'GPS' from its Eee Pad Transformer Prime spec sheet after early adopters of the 10in Android tablet found the gadget's satnav tech doesn't work too well.…

Samsung Series 9 900X3A laptop

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST

The almost Ultrabook

Review  Samsung's Series 9 is the Korean giant's thin and light flagship, and one of several recent models to come to market that borrow engineering and design principles from Apple's Air range. Which means decent performance, decent components, but minimal expansion.…

BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:37 AM PST

Everything must go - for $299 each

RIM's frenzied attempts to offload bags of its unpopular PlayBook tablets continues, with prices on all models in the US slashed to $299.…

HP teases next Ultrabook launch

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:06 AM PST

Spectre wafts out

Intel hopes 2012 will be dubbed 'the year of the Ultrabook', and its old pal HP has wasted no time in pitching its own überslim laptop offering.…

Nokia rests Symbian's future on a bunch of muppets

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

Sesame Street pals star in eBooks for handsets

Nokia has released two interactive books documenting the happy-go-lucky lives of Sesame Street's residents, while apparently failing to notice that it has no tablet computers and has given up on Symbian.…

Asus primed for 7in tablet outing

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:42 AM PST

No more wait for late slate?

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off in Las Vegas next week, and the rumour-mill is awash with whispers of what to expect. The latest: a 7in Android tablet from Asus.…

Area 51 to host sci-fi knocking shop

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:34 AM PST

'Alien Cathouse' will cater to 'all flavors of geek fantasy'

An enterprising Nevada brothel owner has decided to cash in on the fame of Area 51 and offer alien-hungry tourists the chance to get their rocks off in a sci-fi themed knocking shop.…

LG to show 55in, 4mm-thick OLED TV at CES

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:18 AM PST

Four-colour pixel tech on display

LG will be showing off its largest OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week having taken the telly tech to 55 inches.…

NASA's twin GRAILs reunite in lunar orbit

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:06 AM PST

Formation-flying probes reach the Moon

NASA's GRAIL spacecraft duo are back together again and circling the Moon in preparation for their lunar study mission.…

That Brit-built £22 computer: Yours for just £1,900 or more

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:40 AM PST

RaspberryPi beta boards sell like hot cakes at auction

The British-designed credit card-sized RaspberryPi computer, eagerly awaited due to its £22 price tag, can be yours this week for a mere £1,900 or more.…

DRAM it: Elpida, Toshiba may hook up

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:09 AM PST

Anybody seen a white knight?

Loss-making Japanese DRAM fab fabricator Elpida is reportedly in dire straights and being pushed into an alliance with disk drive and flash-maker Toshiba by the Japanese government, sources say.…

Apple accused of starving French reseller of hot stock

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:26 AM PST

iPhone maker hauled into court over throttled supplies

Apple squeezed supplies to a top reseller and used its own retail stores to gain an unfair competitive advantage, claims a French shop chain that is taking Apple to court in Paris.…

Dagenham council: Only language our tenants understand is SMS

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:57 AM PST

yr rent S n arrears weer gunA thrO u ot

Barking and Dagenham council has launched a free text message service which allows housing tenants and leaseholders to get information about their council related affairs more easily, without having to use the local authority's contact centre.…

Apple to conquer connected TVs? Steady on, lad

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST

Report of telly kit success misses the mark

Analysis  A very inward-looking report by Strategy Analytics, published last month, seems to ignore the entire Over the Top video market - and makes Apple an out-and-out winner with its $99 Apple TV device by taking 32 per cent of the Connected Home Device market in 2011.…

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