September 3, 2010 3:21 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

The nHD model in Texas Instruments’ Pico DLP line is geared for tiny projector devices such as mobile phones or cameras. Six of them are shown here against a background of rice grains.
(Credit:
Texas Instruments)

BERLIN–Gadgets such as cameras, portable game consoles, and mobile phones that [...]

August 16, 2010 12:06 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

A sample of some two-finger multitouch gestures Ubuntu plans to support.
(Credit:
Ubuntu)

The next version of Ubuntu will get multitouch interface abilities, catching the Linux operating system up to Windows and
Mac OS X in at least one domain.

“Every single major PC manufacturer has been asking for [...]

July 13, 2010 6:01 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

A new option for Amazon Web Services has arrived: the raw computing power of supercomputing clusters now widely used in research circles.

The service, called Cluster Compute, is a variation of one of the earliest services Amazon offered, EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud. Compared to [...]

July 12, 2010 5:56 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

An illustration of the 'PaintPot' tutoral application written with Google App Inventor for Android.
(Credit:
Google)

I remember watching in the early ’90s a profusion of basic games flood the Windows world, spurred by the success of Windows 3.1 and Visual Basic and shared freely over the [...]

June 24, 2010 1:04 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Two men who led one element of Amazon’s successful cloud-computing services have launched their own a start-up called Nimbula focusing on a private version of the technology.

Cloud computing takes several forms, but Amazon Web Services generally delivers building blocks available over the Internet that [...]

June 18, 2010 1:27 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Google has released a tool to let command-line aficionados use several of the Net giant’s services with the full glory of a text-based interface.

The tool, called GoogleCL, offers commands to control the contents sites of YouTube, Blogger, and Picasa, and the Google Apps sites [...]