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In a bid to tap into the citizen journalism movement and emphasize the interactive possibilities of social media, MySpace will team with NBC News and MSNBC.com to offer two of its millions of users the chance to attend and cover this summer's national political conventions. Starting Thursday and unt...
Sony's Blu-ray won the battle of high-definition DVD formats, but its PlayStation 3 gaming console has been losing the war over networked home entertainment. That will change this summer in the U.S., promised Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, during a Tokyo press conference. Sony ...
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment. The report, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests RFID chips could cause some medical devices to fail when in close contact. RFID ch...
Fifty-one of the country's 60 largest metropolitan areas made gains in tech employment in 2006, the most recent year from which data was available, according to the American Electronics Association, a technology trade group. The report is the first comprehensive survey on the state of high-tech jobs...
Scientists on Friday confirmed that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has uncovered ice in the sandy soil of the red planet. "It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance," said Phoenix...
The infamous Internet bully implicated in the suicide of a 13-year-old girl may get some comeuppance in a California courtroom, but it will probably not be enough to quell the fury of her many detractors. Lori Drew, the Missouri woman accused of setting up a MySpace page to lure Megan Meier into rev...
Last week I was in Japan doing a deep dive on Panasonic, a firm I've observed for decades but never really got to know until recently. I've studied Apple in depth since the '80s and I find the contrasts between the firms and their key founders Konosuke Matsushita -- for whom Panasonic was originally...
In the run-up to the launch of "Spore," the latest creation from "The Sims" creator Will Wright, Electronic Arts has released "Spore Creature Creator," a sort of prequel to the full game, which is set for release in September. "Spore" is a massively single-player online game that puts the power of b...
Winning the battle for bragging rights among states -- and sometimes very real economic benefits -- Massachusetts has retained the top position in the Milken Institute's 2008 State Technology and Science Index. Maryland nabbed second, Colorado third, and California slipped to fourth, down two spots ...
Microsoft and HP are teaming up to develop the high-tech home of the future. The two companies revealed their Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., this week. The home features some of the newest developments in communications technology and is now open for public tours. Located ...
Months after arresting a man for having child pornography images on a state-issued laptop, prosecutors dropped the charges when a defense-sponsored forensic investigation showed that a poorly configured laptop that had become riddled with malware was to blame. The victim -- besides the children in t...
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced Monday the rollout of the latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming console. The system software update version 4.00 brings Google search to the XrossMediaBar interface, the result of a new partnership between the hardware heavy...
HP has a new way to bring all your home media together in one central place. The company introduced the HP MediaSmart Connect system Tuesday. MediaSmart Connect is essentially a wireless server that aggregates content from various sources around your home and makes it all accessible via your high-de...
When startup ZeeVee launched its ZvBox last month, it entered a fray in which high-profile contenders have already found success elusive. The ZvBox aims to let consumers watch any Internet TV, online video or computer content on their home high-definition TVs, and it marks one of the latest attempts...
With more than five months remaining before the U.S. presidential election, the general campaign period is just dawning. Yet more Americans have already gone online to get political news this year than in all of 2004. To some extent, that fact -- reported in the latest Pew Internet & American Li...
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