Cornell team building heart-monitoring, bug-fighting smart clothes
Your shirt could soon power a smartphone while monitoring your blood pressure and providing alerts about harmful bacteria nearby.
Your shirt could soon power a smartphone while monitoring your blood pressure and providing alerts about harmful bacteria nearby.
With its apps, sensors and devices, Nike is increasingly becoming a technology company. It's found the best development teams come from onshore, not offshore, outsourcers.
Microsoft is pursuing an operating system ideal: a unified code base that can run devices ranging from smartphones to servers.
A new solar cell has broken all previous solar efficiency records by achieving 44.7% efficiency, meaning it converts almost half of all the light hitting it into energy.
With the tap of a button on any of the new Kindle Fire HDX tablets, Amazon promises that a frustrated user can get free tech support and tips from a live agent via video, hopefully within 15 seconds.
Satellites the size of shoe boxes, which are expected to one day let researchers explore space more economically, will soon have a much longer reach.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $25 million grant to Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study how the brain creates intelligence and how that process can be replicated in machines.
The IT employment outlook has provided nothing but mixed signals. Tech employment is showing signs of slowing, but not everywhere. Now the Federal Reserve is saying that in some markets -- Boston and San Francisco -- demand for certain types of tech skills is outstripping supply.
An outsourced project to modernize Orange County, Calif.'s tax collection system that was supposed to take three years and cost just over $8 million was on track to cost twice that amount and take twice as long when officials pulled the plug.
Expanding a growing portfolio of enterprise software it sells as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service.
Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen.
The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services and in-app advertising is expected to double to $US151 billion in the US by 2017, AppNation said.
The U.S. may be the global center of the IT universe, but India will exceed the U.S. in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.
Users from Germany and Hong Kong offered real-world experience in deploying data mapping apps at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego.
As the government cuts its own employment, federal agencies are trying to stimulate job creation by making vast amounts of government data freely available.