From: CIO on Mon, May 23 2011 10:34 PM

Three workers died and 15 others were injured after an explosion at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, southwest China, on Friday evening.

From: CIO on Mon, May 23 2011 10:33 PM

A number of bots were on show at the Beijing International High Tech Expo this week.

From: CIO on Sun, May 22 2011 6:51 PM

At least two people are reported dead and 16 injured after an exploison ripped through part of an electronics factory in China operated by Taiwan’s Foxconn on Friday evening.

From: CIO on Sat, May 21 2011 12:45 PM

A number of bots were on show at the Beijing International High Tech Expo this week.

From: CIO on Fri, May 20 2011 4:04 AM

Coming up on this week’s World Tech Update Microsoft integrates Bing and Facebook, NASA's shuttle Endeavor takes off for its final flight, Sony's PlayStation Network comes back to life and the Telenoid tries to hug host Nick Barber.

From: CIO on Tue, May 17 2011 5:41 PM

The space shuttle took six astronauts on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. It will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and spare parts.

From: CIO on Sat, May 14 2011 9:32 AM

Conveying physical emotions through a phone call or email is difficult, but researchers from Japan’s Osaka University have developed a robot that they think can do just that.

From: CIO on Fri, May 13 2011 4:07 PM

Users will be able to place orders for the notebooks starting on June 15

From: CIO on Fri, May 13 2011 4:06 PM

In San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft announced it will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, and CEO Steve Ballmer told reporters why.

From: CIO on Fri, May 13 2011 4:06 PM

Google announced on Wednesday that Samsung and Acer will introduce Chromebooks on June 15.

From: CIO on Fri, May 13 2011 4:05 PM

On World Tech Update this week Microsoft announces that it will buy Skype for $8.5 billion, Google announces that the first Chromebooks will go on sale June 15 and we’re at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver.

From: CIO on Fri, May 13 2011 4:01 PM

The project allows musicians to interact with audience members and for the audience to control parts of the performance.

From: CIO on Thu, May 12 2011 10:09 PM

With more than 2,500 of the brightest minds gathered at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver, many of the largest technology companies have followed.

From: CIO on Wed, May 11 2011 1:33 PM

Keith Shaw talks with CIO.com’s Shane O'Neill about Microsoft's $8.5 billion offer to buy Skype, and what it means for Microsoft's consumer and enterprise voice offerings.

From: CIO on Wed, May 11 2011 1:33 PM

One part of the screen can be slippery when dragging a folder and then sticky once it lands on its destination.

From: CIO on Mon, May 09 2011 12:28 AM

At 8am on March 6 , Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai opened their doors to hundreds of people that had queued for the iPad 2.

From: CIO on Fri, May 06 2011 4:15 PM

On World Tech Update this week Osama bin Laden’s death breaks a Twitter record, Sony execs apologize for the Playstation Network outage, Intel intros a new transistor and the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone shows up in Europe.

From: CIO on Thu, May 05 2011 11:21 AM

The new chip technology, called tri-gate transistors, replaces flat, two-dimensional streams of transistors with a 3D structure.

From: CIO on Wed, May 04 2011 7:28 AM

With the release of the software development kit for Xbox Kinect, do-it-yourself techies can build all sorts of contraptions based off of the game console’s motion sensors.

From: CIO on Wed, May 04 2011 7:28 AM

Keith Shaw talks with Computerworld News Editor Ken Mingis about Apple’s new iMacs, which include new SandyBridge processors from Intel and ThunderBolt ports for speedier data transfer for peripherals.