Information Technology
Here you can find a summary of innovations in the fields of information and data processing and up-to-date developments on IT equipment and hardware.
This area covers topics such as IT services, IT architectures, IT management and telecommunications.
Fingerprint makes chips counterfeit-proof
Product piracy long ago ceased to be limited exclusively to the consumer goods sector. Industry, too, is increasingly having to combat this problem. Cheap…
Number Jumble on the Mobile
According to the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM), 34.4 billion SMS have been sent in Germany in 2009. This means that each German has typed an average of 420 short text messages into their mobile. The potential consequences of sending SMS messages on a regular basis has been examined by Dr. Sascha Topolinski, psychologist in Würzburg – but from a surprising angle. The results of his work have now been published by Psychological Science….
Mixed-reality scavenger hunt with a smartphone – just play the game or create one of your own
In Tidy City, the players explore their neighborhood using a GPS-enabled Android smartphone. Symbols on a map on the display direct the players to a riddle,…
Discovering oil and gas reserves with 32 touches
It has taken three companies working together and combining their specialist skills and expertise, to develop the world’s first Quad Full HD Multitouch Panel….
On the hunt for universal intelligence
This is just one of the many determining factors of the universal intelligence test. “The others are that it can be applied to any subject – whether biological…
Supercomputers Increase Research Competitiveness
Consistent investment in high-performance computing leads to greater research competitiveness for U.S. academic institutions, a new study shows. Relying on…