Scott Ferguson

Female elementary school teachers can unknowingly pass along their anxieties about mathematics to their girl students, who then score lower on achievement tests compared with boys in the same class, according to new research from the University of Chicago. The yearlong study found that female elementary school teachers pass along their anxiety about math to […]

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates says the U.S. economy needs considerable time to recover from the recent recession and that taxpayers are going to have to shoulder much of that burden. Gates, who remains chairman of Microsoft but spends most of his time working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke on the Jan. […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking into the facial recognition technology used in some of its PCs after a YouTube video surfaced that seems to show the software and camera failing to recognize an African-American man. The YouTube video of the facial recognition failure, which runs about 2 minutes, 16 seconds, was originally posted on the video-sharing Website […]

Lenovo, Nvidia, Iomega Want You to Bring Tech Home for the Holidays by Scott Ferguson Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 One of the first Lenovo ThinkPad laptops to run Windows 7, the SL510 offers a 16:9 high-definition screen, Intel Core 2 Duo processors and multitouch capabilities built into the display. Lenovo ThinkPad SL410 While the ThinkPad brand […]

Intel is planning to invest several million Euros in a new supercomputing research center in Europe that will explore the outer limits of high-performance computing while solving complex problems related to health care and weather forecasting. The plan, announced Nov. 19, calls for Intel to support the new Exascale Computing Research Center with an investment […]

The Nokia N900 smartphone, Nokia’s first phone to use a Linux operating system, is now shipping after a delay of several weeks, the handset maker officially announced on Nov. 10. For now, Nokia is shipping to North America, including the United States, as well as Europe, the Middle East and Russia. At this time, the […]

In the coming months and years, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are looking to change the way the world thinks about computing by combining the CPU and graphics on the same piece of silicon. In 2010, Intel plans to release “Arrandale,” a microprocessor that combines a 32-nanometer microprocessor along with a 45-nm graphics chip and […]

Intel continues to dominate the market for x86 processors, with the chip giant controlling about 80 percent of this global market in the third quarter, according to a Nov. 3 report from Mercury Research. In the third quarter, Intel accounted for 81.5 percent of the world’s x86 chip market. Advanced Micro Devices finished well behind […]

In another sign that the IT industry is preparing for a turnaround, worldwide chip sales increased about 19 percent from the second to the third quarter of 2009, according to research from the Semiconductor Industry Association. Global chip sales hit $61.9 billion in the third quarter of 2009, an increase of 19.7 percent from the […]

NEW YORK–Juniper Networks is planning to release new networking hardware and software that will not only allow the networking company to better compete against Cisco Systems and other competitors but also help it delve deeper into the enterprise data center market, as well as cloud computing. At an Oct. 29 meeting for investors and financial […]

Dell and Juniper Networks are entering into a partnership through which Dell will resell Juniper’s networking equipment and software, allowing both companies to better compete against similar offerings from Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. The two companies announced their partnership on Oct. 27. Dell plans to sell the Juniper products through its PowerConnect product portfolio. In […]

Nokia is delaying the release of its N900 smartphone, which will run the open-source Maemo operating system, until November, according to Reuters and other reports. When Nokia first began talking about the N900 device in August, the smartphone maker announced an October release date. However, Nokia on Oct. 23 said the N900 is now scheduled […]