Stories about: Sharp

Television at 16 times the resolution of today's HDTV is inching ever closer -- and now it's in colour.

A group of German researchers has unveiled the first publicly released research attempting to actively disrupt a peer-to-peer botnet - using as their case study the notorious Storm worm.

If there is a single complaint that is laid at the feet of Linux time and time again, it's that the operating system is too complicated and arcane for casual computer users to tolerate. You can't ask newbies to install device drivers or recompile the kernel, naysayers argue.

The Willcom D4 from Sharp is the first device based on Intel's Centrino Atom platform

When Mozilla CEO John Lilly lit into Apple for using its software update utility to push Safari 3.1 to Windows users, he knew he was going to get a rise out of Apple fans.

Heading a start-up after leaving his position as head of Microsoft Game Studios, Ed Fries thought that he might be able to sell 10,000 units of his product -- personalized online game figurines -- the first year.

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has highlighted the need to provide computing to kids in the developing world, but headlines surrounding the group's $100 laptop PC have attracted a growing number of companies and organizations trying to figure out how the digital world can help those most in need.

Greenpeace illustrates problem of disposing of used IT products with container of e-waste

A phone from Sony-Ericsson, a notebook from Sony and PCs from Dell and Hewlett Packard came top of their categories in a study of green electronics devices conducted by Greenpeace. There's little cause for celebration, though, as they only scored around half marks, leaving plenty of room for improvement.

A majority of organizations are in need of IT workers with security, firewall and data privacy skills, but more than 40 per cent surveyed by the Computing Technology Industry Association in the US said their IT employees are not proficient in such skills.

Jesse Sutton takes a look at Fujitsu's amazingly compact UMPC - the new Lifebook U1010