Radio frequency identification has become a hot concept, promising to streamline how businesses track and stock inventory.
But companies may need to rethink their software infrastructures in order to make RFID work as advertised, say analysts and technology makers.

Outsourcing to other countries has become a hot political issue in America. Contrary to what John Edwards, John Kerry and George Bush seem to think, it actually sustains American jobs.

The computer science world, where the work of even the best-known figures is a closed book to the general public, similarly has its “engineer’s engineer” — and perhaps none as accomplished as two brothers who recently delivered a joint reminiscence of their lives and careers to a rapt audience at the Computer History Museum in […]

Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic anti-Star Wars weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.

UK net provider Telewest Broadband is testing a system to let people to send aromatic e-mails over the internet.

For decades, science fiction has been promising a future filled with robots that will make the various annoyances and dangers of life easier or more bearable. You might be forgiven for thinking it was all the product of overactive imaginations, but then you’re simply not looking in the right places.