Technology

After migration to Linux on the desktop, New Zealand national plumbing products supplier Plumbing World also switched its business intelligence application from SAP's Business Objects to the Australian Yellowfin BI for compatibility.

Despite an often tenuous relationship with the Linux community regarding the driver quality for its graphics products, the AMD-owned ATI will offer release parity with Windows for its latest Radeon HD 4870 X2 card.

Advanced Micro Devices has thrown down the gauntlet to graphics rival Nvidia, unveiling a graphics card that runs two graphics chips.

A Russian researcher who plans to demonstrate this fall how he could take advantage of flaws in Intel's chips, said the chipmaker has told him it has fixed two critical bugs.

The computing industry is familiar with the low-cost lab known as the garage, a historic hot-bed for innovation, and this week LinuxWorld had its own "garage" to showcase embedded Linux..

Here's a lesson for reporters covering the Black Hat security conference: Trust noone.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three students and their school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to stop them from disclosing flaws in the MBTA's electronic ticketing system.

Rick Hill won't say where he launched his "wardriving" balloon on Friday, but he will tell you that it got a pretty good look at about 370 wireless networks, while scanning up and down the Las Vegas Strip.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.

Consumer laptops and desktops could get faster and more power-efficient when Intel releases chips built around its new Nehalem microarchitecture in the second half of 2009.

New test results coming in from the Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that Martian soil may not be so akin to Earth's after all.

Just as NASA announced the extension of the Phoenix Mars mission by five weeks, its scientists disclosed that they finally got the first Martian ice sample into one of the analysis ovens onboard the Lander.

iRobot-the maker of household robot helpers such as the Roomba (a robot vacuum cleaner), the Verro (a pool-cleaning robot) and the Scooba (a robotic mop)-has set its sights on a far more social product, the ConnectR robot.

University researchers have developed a high-resolution microscope that is small enough to sit on a computer chip.

The CSIRO has developed a new wireless localisation system with the ability to track, sense and communicate in areas where GPS and other wireless technologies cannot work.