While Google markets its Chrome OS based computers as safe because of cloud information storage compared to traditional PCs where the information is stored on hard drives, researchers have found some vulnerabilities that allow hackers successfully steal users’ data the same way they do when hijacking websites.

Now users who want to have an option to shut down their PCs remotely from their iPhone can do it with the new app. Thus, if you are sitting in your chair and watching your favorite TV program you do not wish to leave, while there is a PC turned on in another room, you may switch it off via your iPhone or iPad device with the new iShutdown app.

Starting June the world’s top search engine Google will be selling its laptop computers on Chrome operating system to challenge Microsoft and Apple in their market. It is the latest of Google’s efforts to show that they are real innovators in the field of computing and hi-tech. The PCs with the focus on the web are manufactured by Samsung and Acer inc. The operating system developed by Google is essentially a web browser that encourages people to use applications like email and spreadsheets directly on the web, instead of storing software.

A new microcomputer has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The millimeter-scale computing system can store up to a week volume of data and can reside on something as small as a human eye. The computer, called the Phoenix chip, is just over one cubic millimeter in size and was designed to monitor eye pressure in glaucoma patients. "This is the first true millimeter-scale complete computing system," Dennis Sylvester, a professor at the school and one of the researchers on the project, said in a statement.

According to the stats from the online security vendor Kaspersky Lab computers worldwide contain about 32 million vulnerabilities because most users fail to update their software.

Future versions of Ubuntu may include a technology that allows users to control the operating system without input device and instead show with their motions what they want the machine to do. Canonical is conducting corresponding experiments to achieve this aim. Rather, with the aid of hardware sensors such as cameras, Ubuntu could "see" and respond to users' whole-body movements, recognizing when they are and aren't there and reacting accordingly.

Bit Tech user 'Saigon' has modified its motorbike into a fully working computer. It took him 12 days to complete the task. The project made use of a retired pocket bike, an Intel Core i7 920 processor, two hard drives totalling 1.5TB of storage, 6GB of DDR3 OCZ RAM, and lots of LED lighting.

According to the new study conducted by professors Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy in North Carolina, giving children home computers and Internet access in a move to contract the gap between poor and wealthy in what relates to education and intellectual abilities leads to the opposite results. The researchers think that these efforts widen achievement gaps in maths and reading between rich and poor - and causes an overall skills decline across society to boot.

While some people may think that PCs have made typewriters obsolete and useless some ingenious intellects do not seem to think so as they have found new application for them. Jack Zylkin, an enterprising tinkerer and the mind behind USB Typewriter, developed his typewriter conversion system at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Hive 76. He says: "We build things out of bits and atoms, and are a group of hackers/DIY/Makers that tear things apart, and put them together in new ways."

Last week a counterfeit version of Intel Core i7-920 processor appeared at the US markets. Intel confirmed the fact on Monday. Now the chip maker is trying to determine how many more are out there. HardOCP hardware website reported on Friday that one of its forum members bought a fake processor from Newegg, an online seller of computers and components. The user reported that instead of a processor he had found a bogus processor and a plastic mold of a heat sink and fan.

According to the statistics given by IDC the SSD market grew 14% in 2009 with more than 11 million units shipped that year. Besides, it is expected to grow further through 2010 and by 2013, SSD's compound growth rate (CAGR) over 2008-2013 will reach 54%. "Despite lingering uncertainties around the economy, IDC remains positive on the outlook for SSDs and believes the trajectories for shipment and revenue growth are a source of optimism moving forward," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manger, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Drives at IDC.

 One of the Internet founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee in an interview for the New York Times said that he regrets addition of slash characters to the web's URL address system. He stated that the use of slash characters in the URL was not compulsory and made the web addresses needlessly longer than they could be. According to Berners-Lee the protocol names such as HTTP or FTP should be separated from the rest of the address but lately it turned out that only the colon was necessary.

Scientists have created the first chemical computer that works on the basis of crystallization of sodium acetate. This produces the so called sodium acetate trihydrate CH3COONa3H2O, which is known as hot ice as well.The working principle is described this way: “We prepare a supersaturated clear solution of sodium acetate trihydrate CH3COONa3H2O, pour the hot solution into Petri dishes and cool the solution down to -5oC.

In a move to expand its presence in the web browser market Google is shipping its Chrome with Sony Corp PCs. As of today Google Chrome significantly falls behind Microsoft and Mozilla and some observers believe the deal will allow Google to increase its market share in the industry.

Building blocks of human body will serve as a model for the new microprocessors of International Business Machines Corp. In a move to build smaller microchips and save costs the computer maker plans to use artificial DNA nanostructures, or "DNA origami" to build tiny microchips."This is the first demonstration of using biological molecules to help with processing in the semiconductor industry," IBM research manager Spike Narayan said in an interview with Reuters.