Sony said it was withdrawing from joint research with IBM and Toshiba to develop the manufacturing technology for producing microchips with circuitry of 32 nanometers or less.

Production of a new generation of microprocessors for PCs, laptops, servers and other computing devices officially began today inside of Intel Corporation’s first high-volume 45 nanometer (nm) manufacturing factory in Chandler, Ariz.

With U.S. consumers facing higher heating costs this winter, a new government Web site gives homeowners specific, customized recommendations on how to cut their energy use and save on utility bills.

DigitalGlobe today revealed the first images from WorldView-1, the highest resolution, most agile commercial satellite ever flown.

France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that revolutionized data storage and led to gadgets such as laptops and iPods.

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile phone operator, hopes to one day sell a handset that lets you make electronic payments while it stays in your pocket.

Intel Corporation announced the launch of an open source community project designed to meet the growing demands for increased energy efficiency across the computing spectrum spanning servers in data centers to personal mobile devices.

Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can converse, sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility. Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent much of the past two years languishing in a corner alone.

Intel is now moving its chipmaking technology to 45 nanometers, but it was the first time that the company had demonstrated working chips based on 32-nanometer technology, said Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Nanometers measure the size of features on a chip.
Otellini demonstrated a dinner-plate-sized wafer made on the 32-nanometer technology that contained memory chips, saying […]

DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Inc.’s interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.

Web search leader Google will sponsor a $30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space.

Cellular phones do not pose short-term health risks, but it remains too soon to say whether they can cause brain cancer or whether children face greater risks than adults, British scientists said on Wednesday.

It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.

IBM researchers in collaboration with scientists from the ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new, efficient and precise technique to “print” at the nanoscale.

Motorola is aiming to cut its quarterly research and development expenses for mobile devices by about 15 percent by the end of 2007 to try to return to profitability.

Using cell phones near hospital beds or important equipment is dangerous and could switch off ventilators or disrupt pacemakers, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.

The IFA consumer electronics trade fair drew more visitors and exhibitors than expected this year, organizers said as the fair drew to a close on Wednesday.

Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 2.2 percent to $20.6 billion in July, an industry group said on Tuesday, helped by rising demand for consumer electronics.

Interior designer Timothy Corrigan had never heard of a “washlet” — until a client asked him to install one of the high-tech Japanese toilets.

Imagine cramming 30,000 full-length movies into a gadget the size of an iPod.

Internet TV, mobile TV and video on demand may be the talk of the technology sector but when it comes to buying decisions at this week’s IFA electronics fair, television sets are set to be bigger business than ever.

British teenagers are damaging their health by not getting enough sleep because they are distracted by electronic gadgets in their bedrooms, according to a survey on Tuesday.

Sony has developed an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers, the Japanese company said.

Tilera Corp, a Silicon Valley semiconductor start-up, is launching a single microchip with 64 processing units, or cores, in a technological jump generations ahead of the mainstream.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.