Engineers’ Must-Reads This Week
(October 31 to November 7, 2007)

UN partners with Google, Cisco to fight global poverty
(Inquirer.net 11/02/2007 Agence France-Presse)
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations joined hands with information technology giants Google and Cisco to launch an innovative online site to track progress toward the goal of halving global poverty by 2015.

Revolution ahead in data storage, say IT wizards
(Inquirer.net 11/01/2007 Agence France-Presse)
PARIS -- The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.

Researchers use good vibrations to create nanoradio
(The IET 11/05/2007)
Researchers in the US who have used a carbon nanotube to create the world's smallest fully functional radio receiver are predicting exciting new applications for devices that can fit inside a single biological cell.

Microchip heads into 32bit territory
(The IET 11/05/2007)
Microchip Technology has decided to move into the market for 32bit microcontrollers, pitting itself against incumbents such as Renesas Technology, NEC and Freescale Semiconductor with a set of products based around a recently unveiled processor core developed by MIPS Technologies.

IBM acts to transform risk management for business
(The IET 11/02/2007)
IBM is introducing new security services, products and research breakthroughs designed to help businesses more effectively manage operational and information technology risk.