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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.

The computer industry is nearing a crisis: microchips  get smaller and faster but they struggle to transfer data at sufficient speeds.  Electrons flowing through standard chip connections are just too slow. Now researchers have shown how chips with built-in lasers which use multiple wavelengths of light could in the future transmit data at terabit speeds.

The mobile credit card reader taps into geolocation features on your mobile device to calculate city, state and municipal taxes for a given transaction.

This is what consumerization in the enterprise looks like: communications company Polycom unveils a new, softer corporate identity.

The UK's privacy regulator signals it will initially take a "soft" approach to sites that breach new cookie rules.

Scientists are awaiting the announcement of a decision on where the world's biggest and most powerful radio telescope will be built.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain. - Kevin Mitnick

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage