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Engineers have discovered previously unknown properties of a common computer memory material, paving the way for new memory drives, movie discs and computer systems that absorb data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media.

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures -- twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven -- and survive other hostile conditions could usher in the development of next-generation flash-competitive memory for tomorrow's keychain drives, cell phones and computers, scientists say.

Oracle has released a cache of HP documents first seen during litigation, which shows just how much HP wanted to keep the ailing Itanium chip going.

Bottom line: The smartphone race will look dramatically different a year from now. A shakeout is on the horizon.

Mystery shopper tests have revealed that customers are not always told what speed they can expect from broadband services.

The Philippines has recently overtaken India as the country with the most call centre workers - and it is due in no small part to technology.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. - Author Unknown

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. - Marcus Dolengo