IBM has opened a new data center in Dublin aimed at letting businesses use its computing power and applications for collaborative projects such as software and IT services development.

Intel's resignation from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors will have "no impact" on the group's operations, since the chip maker contributed little to the project since joining last year, OLPC President Walter Bender said in an interview.

The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC.

Toyota unveiled on Thursday the latest two creations from its robot project, including one that can play the violin, and said it is targeting the early 2010s for the development of a viable human-assistance robot.

Az Alexandriai Nagykönyvtár az ismert világ tudáskincsének javával rendelkezett. Ezt a célt tűzte ki a Million Book Project is.

Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge.

As concerns mount about the commercial viability of Galileo, the European Union's ambitious geopositioning satellite project, pulling the plug isn't an option, said European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen on Thursday.

The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.

Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.

A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Fejlett Védelmi Kutatási Projektek Ügynöksége) 3,5 millió dollárnyi összdíjazással jutalmazza az indulókat a mérföldkőnek számító városi robotversenyben.

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code.

U.K. government officials doubt whether a national ID program will be ready by 2008 because of procurement and project management concerns, according to a series of leaked e-mails published Sunday.

A tizedik alkalommal meghirdetett World Billing Awards díjat a T-Com/Magyar Telekom - Allround közös pályázata kapta a Best Revenue Assurance/Management Project (a legjobb bevétel biztosítási projekt) kategóriában. A díj történetének első magyar pályázata az egyik legnépszerűbb kategóriában, hét döntős közül egyedüliként nyert - tavaly ketten megosztva kapták ugyanezt a díjat.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago in a project code-named Origami.

Különös dologra derült fény: A Microsoft-féle titokzatos Origami Project nem is teljesen "saját gyártmány" - az első ilyen eszközt ugyanis a Samsung Electronics mutatta be a CeBIT-en.

Egy Origami Project nevű weboldalon található információk szerint a Microsoft ezen a héten mutatna be egy új termékcsaládot, amely az Origami nevet viseli.

Is Microsoft Corp. planning to announce details of a new portable device code-named Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a Web site called Origami Project.

A federal program that funds "high-risk" technologies is at high risk of going out of business if Congress approves U.S. President George Bush's proposed federal budget for next year. Since it started awarding grants in 1990, the Advance Technology Program (ATP) has distributed some US$2.2 billion in funding to projects focusing on a range of subjects, including information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and advanced materials.