Stories by: Marc L. Songini

Creative scientists have until next week to submit proposals for creating a shape-shifting military robot that can shrink and then reconfigure itself to normal height and shape.

The day may be coming when PCs, cell phones and many other devices will be run without a battery or electrical cord.

Checkpoint Systems is rolling out a line of radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled labels that it boasts can be used to both support advanced inventory control and help catch shoplifters, allowing retailers to consolidate its use of the technology.

Computer coding errors apparently caused the loss of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter spacecraft last year.

Charges that video slot machines were programmed to flash subliminal signals of jackpot messages to gamblers has led a casino operator to temporarily pull several types of the devices off the floor.

Eastman Kodak has come up with an idea that some may find difficult to swallow--an edible radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) this summer plans to begin testing whether RFID technology can survive in outer space.

The end may be in sight in the ongoing saga of Oracle's hostile takeover bid for embattled competitor PeopleSoft.

SAP and development partner MySQL are readying an upgrade to SAP's open source database that will add support for 64-bit computing, along with new monitoring and management features.

Application vendor SAP nd its partner, MySQL, are readying enhancements to the former's open-source database that will offer support for 64-bit computing, along with new monitoring and management features.

A number of Oracle users are showing interest in the recently shipped 10g database, citing the software's new manageability, usability and self-tuning features. In addition, because prices were recently slashed, some are suggesting that 10g could rival Microsoft's SQL Server in the low end of the market.