Future television switches on

Alongside a raft of new high definition LCD displays was the world's largest plasma display - a 150in behemoth from Panasonic - the world's thinnest commercial screen - just 3mm thick - and the world's first laser television. The latter was debuted by Mitsubishi, a company that has claimed a number of television firsts including the first true high definition sets more...

Fujitsu's 'Corn' PC

It's actually the third generation of the Biblo PC from Fujitsu, which showed off the laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The inside is a normal PC, but the outside casing is made out of material that's 50 percent plant-based materials, and 50 percent regular plastics. To make it, they take regular ears of corn, process it down to corn starch, and turn that into a polymer alloy. Fujitsu says it cuts down on carbon dioxide emissions during the manufacturing process by 15 percent. Unfortunately, the PCs are only on sale in Japan more...

Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs

The desktop PC's days of dominance could be numbered as laptops and ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of ever greater, and more efficient, computing power. "We want to be mobile and not tethered to our desks anymore - we can take our computing power with us," said Mooly Eden, general manager of the mobile platform group at Intel more...

Studios still searching for best way to do video online

Studios know how to make money in the traditional way--in the theater, via broadcast television. But the Internet still has them slightly flummoxed. True, most of the major film and television studios are embracing the Web. But the exact formula for distributing their content while still making money remains somewhat up in the air more...

Video game classics score Emmy honors at CES

A group of video game giants who changed the way people play in the 80s, 90s and 2000s were honored with technology and engineering Emmy Awards during a ceremony in Las Vegas Monday night, according to a release from Sony Online Entertainment. The awards were handed out in two categories more...

Bus operator sprints ahead with mobile ticketing

Bus operator Go North East is introducing a cashless and paperless fare system that will allow customers to order and receive tickets via a mobile phone. Passengers using 'txt2go' can place their order by text and will then receive a message with the ticket information which can be shown to the driver as they board the bus more...

Blu-ray supporters scent victory

The backers of the Blu-ray high definition DVD system are predicting victory in the format wars with HD DVD. The two rival camps have divided consumers since the two incompatible systems were launched more...

Yahoo! plans fightback against Google

Internet giant Yahoo! must be ready to reclaim its position as the world's leading dotcom company, according to chief executive Jerry Yang. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday, Yang explained his vision of returning the company to its prime, and outlined plans to help Yahoo! recover from a series of setbacks that have left its reputation severely dented more...

Festive PS3 sales in US pass 1m

Sales of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in the US reached 1.2 million over the Christmas shopping period, its Japanese owner Sony has confirmed. The figure covers the period between 23 November and 31 December and accounts for about two thirds of last year's sales, research firm NPD Group said more...

Teachers 'put pupil data at risk'

Sensitive information on school pupils is being put at risk by staff who take it home with them, an IT firm says. Teachers in nearly half of England's primary schools back up pupil data on CDs and memory sticks, which they then take out of school, research suggests more...

Warner backs Sony Blu-ray format

Warner Brothers is to release high definition films only in Sony's Blu-ray format, in what is seen as a blow to Toshiba in the long-running format war. Warner was the only major studio still releasing films both in Blu-ray and Toshiba's rival HD DVD format more...