Infotech

Ferroelectric-graphene-based system could lead to improved information processing

22 Jun 2013

Almost half of mobile apps access privacy-sensitive data on iOS devices, computer scientists find

22 Jun 2013

Supercomputer Titan completes acceptance testing

14 Jun 2013

Titan, a Cray XK7 supercomputer, is capable of more than 27,000 trillion calculations each second - or 27 petaflops

Programming model for supercomputers of the future

11 Jun 2013

Boosting privacy protection in social networks

08 Jun 2013

Software that exposes credit card fraudsters

03 May 2013

Cyber Research Institute launched to curb cyber threats to the UK

18 Apr 2013

To investigate new ways of automatically analysing computer software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats

Bose-Einstein condensates evaluated for communicating among Quantum computers

15 Apr 2013

Erasing electronic footprints

26 Mar 2013

A ‘cleaner app’ which allows those at risk from domestic violence to seek help online without leaving an electronic trail behind them has been developed by Newcastle University

Making cloud computing more efficient

By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 13 Mar 2013

For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 per cent while actually improving performance

Storing data in individual molecules

By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 24 Jan 2013

An international team of researchers demonstrates the possibility of molecular memory near room temperature that promises a 1,000-fold increase in storage density

Smart search engines for news videos

05 Jan 2013

MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 20 Dec 2012

Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behaviour, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism

Engineers develop new energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials

By By Matthew Chin | 17 Dec 2012

Study finds security indicators sacrificed to accommodate small screens

07 Dec 2012

How unsafe are mobile browsers? Unsafe enough that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when their smartphone browsers have landed on potentially dangerous websites, reveals new research

Speeding algorithms by shrinking data

23 Nov 2012

Fujitsu Semiconductor achieves 2.5kW output in server power supply units

22 Nov 2012

Fujitsu Semiconductor has successfully achieved high output power of 2.5kW in server power supply units equipped with gallium-nitride power devices built on a silicon substrate

Researchers developing new spam filter to rid inboxes of unwanted email

22 Nov 2012

Oak Ridge National Labs' super compuer Titan emerges world's fastest

14 Nov 2012

Researchers in new bid to tackle billions lost to cyber-crime

12 Nov 2012

Quantum physics to help fight cyber crime

01 Nov 2012

Fundamental particles of light, known as photons, can be used to verify security and authenticity of any transaction or communication with a ‘digital signature’