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  • MIT scientists make lithium battery breakthrough

    MIT scientists make lithium battery breakthrough

    Can charge in seconds 12 March 2009 9:12 GMT

    MIT scientists have redeveloped the lithium battery in a breakthrough that could see batteries recharging in seconds.

    Ordinary lithium batteries dispense power slowly and charge slowly, but the batteries the MIT boffins are working on can...

  • MIT working on £6 Apple II-inspired computer. Hardware, MIT, Desktop PCs, Concepts 0

    MIT working on £6 Apple II-inspired computer

    For developing countries 5 August 2008 15:48 GMT

    The same US uni that began the One Laptop Per Child project has begun work on the $12 computer.

    MIT is working on a computer - loosely based on Apple II machine dating back 30 years - and have recruited enthusiasts of the first mass produced...

  • MIT digitises the Post-it Note. Gadgets, Home And Kitchen, MIT, Post-it notes 0

    MIT digitises the Post-it Note

    Introducing the Quickie (snigger snigger) 2 May 2008 13:49 GMT

    Those clever chaps at MIT Media Lab have taken that old office favourite, the Post-it note, and stuck it in the 21st Century.

    The "Quickies" concept uses those sticky pads we all have buried in the detritus piled on our desks and adds a digital...

  • Intel and MIT bury differences and join forces over One Laptop Per Child. Hardware, Laptops, Intel, MIT, OLPC 0

    Intel and MIT bury differences and join forces over One Laptop Per Child

    Best of friends now... 13 July 2007 17:45 GMT

    Intel and MIT have put aside their differences it seems, and announced today that the two companies will after all work together on the One Laptop Per Child project.

    Although the $100 laptop features an AMD process, under the agreement, Intel...

  • Scientists show off wireless electricity . Biz, Wi-Fi, MIT, CPP Phonesafe, iPod, Music industry, Car And GPS, Google 0

    Scientists show off wireless electricity

    How many MIT bods does it take to wirelessly power a light bulb? 8 June 2007 13:19 GMT

    In an exciting development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have managed to power a 60-watt light bulb by sending energy to it wirelessly from 7 feet away.

    The power was sent from a power-generating appliance that...

  • Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talks about resolving Microsoft and Novell's patent disputes

    Microsoft and Novell team up over open source solutions

    OpenOffice and MS Office to work better together 3 November 2006 18:51 GMT

    Microsoft and Novell have announced a collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability in a move that came straight out of left field for most of us.

    The two software companies have announced a set of agreements to build, market, and support...

  • Father of the World Wide Web to start a new science to study the internet. Biz, Interviews, Tim Berners-Lee, Southampton University, MIT 0

    Father of the World Wide Web to start a new science to study the internet

    Where's it going, and how do we find what's out there? 3 November 2006 17:19 GMT

    The father of the World Wide Web has announced an ambitious project to study the Internet, its uses, and the way it’s growing.

    The research will be collaborative at MIT and the University of Southampton, and is called the Web Science Research...

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