| Motion-charged mobiles edge closer |
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| Talking to machines via mind control |
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| Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing |
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What should be the world's most powerful particle accelerator to date is now clear for its 10 September switch-on |
| Microsoft shows off 3D photo viewer Photosynth |
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| The future of machine intelligence at IDF |
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| MoD announces winner of robot challenge |
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| Tech trends at the Intel Developer Forum |
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| Intel: Sentient mobile devices will understand users |
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At the Intel Developer Forum, the company announced it is working on sensors enabling mobile devices to understand human behaviour and give guidance to users |
| Google digs deep to exploit geothermal energy |
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The company is investing $10m in US start-ups in a quest to produce a gigawatt of electricity through renewable sources |
| IBM cloud investment offers business continuity |
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The company will equip datacentres around the world to let customers access cloud-based computer services in the event service disruptions take down their networks |
| Tackling the challenges of tech innovation |
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At SDForum's first Corporate Innovation and Research Fair, executives from eBay, HP, Microsoft and others talked about their techniques for staying creative |
| HP picks academic institutions for research funding |
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Four British universities have secured grants for IT research in the latest round of funding from HP |
| Forrester foresees future of tech as 'IT everywhere' |
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The evolution of existing trends, rather the advent of revolutionary tech, will shape enterprise IT in the coming years, says the company |
| Microsoft shows off 3D video-editing tool |
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| Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch |
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What should be the world's most powerful particle accelerator will be switched on in just over a month's time |
| EC sets aside spectrum for 'intelligent' cars |
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30MHz of spectrum in the 5.9GHz band is to be reserved so cars can communicate with each other, in a bid to beat road accidents and traffic congestion |
| Microsoft's Sphere in action |
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| Intel, HP, Yahoo create cloud-computing labs |
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A global cloud infrastructure for researchers will help advance the technology, according to the companies |
| Microsoft offers a glimpse of Sphere |
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| Generation Y keeping companies on their toes |
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Today's tech-savvy 18- to 28-year-olds are setting the technology agenda, while companies are struggling to get to grips with this key audience |
| Cern paves the way for lightning-speed networks |
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Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator being switched on in August at Cern |
| Customers to devise killer-gadgets of the future |
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A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that within five years, 'prosumers' will be feeding their ideas straight onto company production lines |
| Jodrell Bank radiotelescope spared the axe |
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| IBM, ETH Zurich to build joint nanotech research lab |
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The Swiss university and chipmaker's joint $90m investment marks a major move forward for industry and academic collaboration |
| Holographic handsets on the market by 2010 |
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Indian technology giant Infosys has patented a mobile device capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images |
| IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal |
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Through its deal with a Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer, IBM joins the hordes of companies trying to build a better solar cell |
| EC doubles robotics R&D investment |
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The Commission has promised 400m for robotics research to help European manufacturing compete with developing countries |
| WorldWide Telescope puts the universe on your PC |
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| Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution |
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At a RIM conference, inventor Ray Kurzweil predicted the changes coming to mobile phones, from speech-translation engines to hovering virtual displays |
| Livescribe demos Java-fuelled smartpen |
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| Who's the UK's IT Community Hero of the Year? |
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Entries are now open for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, with a new category recognising achievements benefiting the IT community |
| British scientists create atom-thick transistor |
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A team from the University of Manchester has managed to carve an electronic circuit out of graphene, a very thin carbon structure with huge implications for nanotechnology |
| Gartner: Seven IT challenges to change the world |
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From self-charging devices to full gesture and speech recognition, analysts have mapped out the key tech challenges that could revolutionise business over the next 20 years |
| Xerox demonstrates reusable paper |
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| The best video from CeBIT 2008 |
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| Control software with brainwave patterns |
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| Biometrics technology that can read emotions |
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| Thumbs-up for Windows Media Player |
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| Using telematics to manage a fleet of cars |
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| The Linux-based car's next challenge |
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| Zeno: The robot based on Lord of the Rings AI |
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| The Linux car that drives itself |
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| The best of CeBIT 2008: Day one |
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| Cryogenics chilled systems at CeBIT |
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| Portable tech on show at CeBIT |
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| CeBIT: Europe's biggest IT show opens |
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CeBIT 2008 kicks off this week in Hanover, Germany, and will include new exhibitions around green technology |
| Europe launches £2bn nanotech push |
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A well-funded partnership between European governments, the EU, industry and academia will set up its offices in Brussels within months |
| Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights |
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Catching a plane will one day be as easy as Tube or train travel today, according to a leading border security expert |
| On the floor at Macworld 2008 |
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| Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research |
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De Montfort University and Missouri University are teaming up to improve quality of life for the elderly with a computational intelligence project |
Start-up M2E Power plans to release a charger in 2009 that can harvest enough energy from walking to replenish small gadgets
At IDF, Intel's Justin Rattner talks to Emotiv Systems president Tan Le about new interface technologies that are making humans more like machines
Microsoft Live Labs's latest project is an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into 3D environments
The chipmaker painted a bullish future for tech, with advances in power transmission, communications, robots and human-computer interfaces
The Saturn system of robots, which can analyse battlefields from a macro and micro level, has won the Ministry of Defence's Grand Challenge
ZDNet.com correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about trends and products at this year's Intel Developer Forum
A research project called Unwrap Mosaic paves the way for adding features such as facial hair to the subject of a video that has already been filmed
Researchers demonstrate the globe-like, touch-controlled Sphere computer
Academics attending the software maker's Faculty Summit will be among the first to see the spherical surface computer developed by Microsoft Research
The UK's most famous telescope research centre has secured its 'medium and long-term future' 
Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope software that lets amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their computers
The Java-capable Pulse Smartpen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, synchs up the sound with the writing and translates languages instantly
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Xerox shows off a disappearing-ink technology that enables people to reuse a piece of paper
CeBIT's 30-plus exhibition halls were packed with technology this year; we capture the best of it on video, from software controlled by brainwaves to a robot based on the same AI engine that drove the fight scenes in Lord of the Rings
University of Bremen researchers demonstrate technology that reads brainwaves to control software
The Fraunhofer Institute's intelligent-systems manager gives a demonstration of technology that can read a face and gauge whether a person is happy, sad, or angry
At CeBIT, Dr Frank Klefenz from the Fraunhofer Institute demonstrates how finger gesture filmed on a webcam can control Windows Media Player
At CeBIT, German firm IAV explains how it uses telematics to monitor the health of vehicles in a car fleet and help identify recurring problems, as well as tune engines on the go and communicate with emergency services
Caroline is not just any old VW Passat; it has seven PCs monitoring its environment, making decisions and controlling it. Researcher Jörn Martern Wille talks about the tech and explains where it's headed
Hanson Robotics's Zeno robot may be a toy, but its sophisticated artificial intelligence is far from child's play
At the CeBIT 2008 technology show in Hanover, ZDNet.co.uk took a look inside Darpa Grand Challenge finalist Caroline a car that doesn't need a driver
Europe's biggest IT show has already seen a keynote from Steve Ballmer and an update to the innovative Asus Eee PC
Amid the talk of green and power-efficient computing at CeBIT this year, in some cases it is all about faster and cooler and in one instance, that involves liquid nitrogen
New hardware on show at CeBIT this year includes a Windows version of a low-power laptop and a notebook designed for airtravel
Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled the ultraportable MacBook Air at the expo, while attendees enjoyed a range of Mac-related technology and gadgets
