Using a PCI Extension platform, a cable converter to input serial commands to the iPod for control and a LabView Technology created software interface, engineers are able to send commands to complex devices like the iPod and measure the response.

There's a lot of talk about power consumption in data centers, yet the efforts to reduce storage power consumption are rarely discussed. Consider high-performance disk drives, commonly driven to 10,000 or 15,000 rpm by latency demands, with their numbers multiplying to supply the terabytes of storage we take for granted.

Imagine the branding capabilities when they start embedding OLEDs into clothing.

It seems that Linksys owned the trademarked the name "iPhone" since 2000 when they purchased InfoGear Technology who in turn trademarket the name in 1996. Linksys is now manufacturing a phone under that name. This leads to a few issues between Cisco and Apple. Now Apple has only another week to respond to the Cisco trademark infringement lawsuit. This suit threatens to keep Apple Inc. from using the name "iPhone" for their new cell phone-music player.

Electronic connectors are typically the points in a circuit most vulnerable to the effects of corrosion. Those effects can range from reduced current capacity to intermittent or permanent failure of the circuit.

Bob Pease cracks me up. He's just got a unique way of looking at things.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T) will cut back on future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at driving the semiconductor unit's nascent earnings recovery.

Analog Devices Inc. and Legend Silicon Corp. have set up a joint design laboratory to develop reference designs for China's emerging mobile TV market. The design lab, which is located in Shanghai, adjacent to the Fudan University campus, will provide complete front-end solutions, from the antenna through the tuner to the demodulator to the MPEG2 TS interface, to allow Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) to quickly equip their mobile terminal products—including portable media players, PDAs, laptop PCs, automotive displays and smart phones—to receive terrestrial digital TV broadcasts.

Newly private Freescale Semiconductor grew its sales 9% in the fourth quarter, despite tough business conditions in many of its key markets. Freescale reported earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortization in the fourth quarter of $401 million vs. $362 million in the year-ago period.

I seriously doubt you'll see a PS3 under the tree this Xmas (and if you did, someone proabably paid way over the RRP!!!). But if you are lucky enough to find one, and after you've grown bored of the lame launch titles you'll also find it could be a powerful tool in fighting protein-based diseases. Using distributed computing technology, Sony has teamed up with Stanford University's Folding@home project to take a quantum leap forward in simulation processing power.