military tech
RSS military tech
Photos: New Dell laptops shed the pounds
Photo Dell says it's built to military standards to withstand dust, humidity and vibration. The tech allows users to access email, calendar, contacts and the internet almost instantly by not starting the system's main operating system. [13 Aug 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News However, the Commission picked out a handful of countries for praise on their digitisation work to date, including Slovakia, which has turned an old military complex into a digitisation facility, complete with "page-turning robots". [12 Aug 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News Although there are elements of AI technology in robots and unmanned drones used by the military in places like Afghanistan, Shadbolt said: "They are basically the lower level stuff and we've become pretty good at that. [10 Jul 2008]
Disaster Defeats High-Tech Recovery Effort
White Paper To be ready, the U.S.military, academics and international relief organizations set up a contingency plan called Strong Angel that put information technology at the center of rescue efforts. Major natural disasters are always a surprise in that no... [03 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify... [30 May 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. [15 May 2008]
Galileo phones home
News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008... [09 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! [02 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo Its early number-crunching abilities were used to design military aircraft and guided weapons. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion of technology at the time, torn between optimism and terror. [01 May 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing... [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components... [17 Apr 2008]
Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. [14 Apr 2008]
