Eindhoven (The Netherlands) - John Kessels from the technical university of Eindhoven claims that a relatively simple software update as well as the addition of a cable could reduce the fuel consumption of virtually any car on the road today. Kessels approach is based on the idea that cars waste energy in several places; for example, he explained that cars do not accelerate efficiently and throw potential energy savings when charging the car battery or running all electrical systems without interruption.

Researchers of the Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced development of a “new technology” that enables “long-term” data storage in bacterial DNA.

Scientists from nine institutions have began working with a new 280-ton telescope system that may help astronomers to learn more about "dark energy," which is believed to be the cause of the rapid expansion of the universe.

A new high-frequency cooling device was recently demoed at the Maryland-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) building.

ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD are going to be offering more high definition content this year than any previous year due to new investments in HD technology, reports the Associated Press.

As part of DirecTV's initiative to offer tons of high-definition programming, The Weather Channel has signed on to offer an HD feed, which will premiere on the satellite provider in the second half of 2007.

Flash memory has been rumored to soon hit the limitations of nature, making it impossible for the technology to scale beyond 32 nm or 22 nm structures. Korean researchers now say they have developed 10 nm semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes that could breathe new life into Flash memory cards.

Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD has released its proposed motherboard design guidelines for DTX small form factor (SFF) PCs. The company said that the specifications should enable “smaller, quieter, desktop-friendly” computer systems.

As a company with one of the world’s largest IT infrastructures, Google has an opportunity to do more than just search the Internet. From time to time, the company publishes the results of internal research. The most recent project one is sure to spark interest in exploring how and under what circumstances hard drives work – or not.

The Internet continues its rapid pace of growth. Netcraft reports that 1.93 million sites came online during the month of January, bringing the grand total to 108.8 million.

By now, we have learned that power efficiency has become one of the dominant cost factors impacting the operating of computer systems. A new study, commissioned by AMD, is putting numbers on the power consumption of data centers in the U.S. and around the world.

San Francisco (CA) – IBM today revealed first data about a new embedded DRAM device, which the company claims achieves record access times. The technology is expected to debut in 2008 as part of the 45 nm generation of IBM processors.     

AMD is preparing the rollout of its first quad-core processor, an Opteron processor based on the Barcelona core. Meanwhile, Intel is developing an answer to Barcelona: The company is lining up 45 nm server and desktop processors and will revive Hyperthreading in 2008 with the Nehalem core.

Voice recognition technology has reached a new era - that is if you want to believe IBM.

NBC has announced that it is planning to air its nightly news program, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, in high definition, which would make it the only network news show in its timeslot to do so, according to a report on TVPredictions.com.

With talk about the 2008 presidential election already fervently underway, a new site has popped up with an exclusive focus on next year's election, which already has more than 20 possible candidates that are known or speculated to be vying for the White House seat.

Sideshow is one of those Windows Vista features that are still somewhat cloudy and without a clear future. So far, Sideshow has gained most interest in the form of a small LCD that is integrated into the notebook lid as a secondary screen - to enable data access without requiring the user to power up the notebook. But there is more - and Nvidia is cooking up some interesting solutions.

AMD's processor prices remain under severe pressure: Caught between Intel's outgoing Pentium D series on the low end and the Core 2 Duo series on the high end, the X2 Athlons remain vulnerable to market shifts and Intel's supply strategy. Anyone intending to build a Vista PC on a budget should begin having a closer look at AMD.

Vista news is dominating the blogosphere today, but instead of talk about a launch frenzy, there is a considerable amount of negative impressions from bloggers.