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Less than a month after it launched Sky in Google Earth with astronomical images from around the universe, Google announced on Thursday that it is taking its space fascination a step further by sponsoring a contest to fly to the moon. Offered in partnership with the X Prize Foundation, best known fo...
At a time when most people agree that Google or Apple have replaced Microsoft as the tech industry's top player, government regulators on two continents are going retro, pushing old antitrust arguments. This backward-looking thinking threatens innovation for all companies and needs to stop now. Whi...
Environmental advocates won a major victory Wednesday when Vermont U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions ruled that states including Vermont and California can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. In his 240-page ruling, Sessions rejected auto manufacturers' and dealers' claims that fe...
No longer the exclusive domain of computer loving teenagers and college students, social networking has become a tool to drive corporate innovation and facilitate communication from the boardroom on down. For instance, for AAR, a Wood Dale, Ill.-based aviation services company, communication oriente...
Computer geeks who've quietly longed for the ability to play "Guitar Hero" on their PCs and Macs can stop fretting. A company plans to release a personal computer version of the addictive pseudo-guitar-playing game, currently available only on video game consoles. Austin, Texas-based Aspyr Media has...
Cruising the Web on a smartphone is about like cruising for a date on a tricycle -- the basic concept is there, but the delivery is laughable. If you are using an iPhone, then it's more like cruising in a Volkswagen Beetle -- better, but still short of the Lamborghini speeds we're used to on the ope...
Lenovo introduced on Wednesday its newest energy-efficient desktop line with the ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor PC that combines a small footprint the size of a telephone book with 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron energy efficient processors. The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percen...
News that there may be a link between implanted RFID chips and cancer in mice and rats sent VeriChip shares plunging by as much as 14 percent on Tuesday. The company's troubles began over the weekend when results of three studies in the United States and Europe detailing the increased risk -- which ...
The Wii Zapper, a plastic gun-shaped casing for the Nintendo console's Wii-mote and Nunchuck controllers, will makes it debute in the U.S. just in time for the holiday shopping season on Nov. 19, Nintendo announced Monday. The console maker unveiled the add-on in July at this year's E3 Media and Bus...
Technology similar to that which propels tiny droplets in inkjet printing might soon be used to painlessly inject medicine into the skin with a patch. Inkjet pioneer HP has created the drug delivery patches and is allowing Ireland-based medical device developer Crospon to sell them. The patches are ...
The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources...
SanDisk on Monday announced a new, pencil-thin video MP3 player that appears likely to go head-to-head with Apple's newly upgraded iPod nano. The new Sansa View combines MP3 playback capabilities with full-motion video support, a large screen, long battery life and generous capacity. Perhaps even mo...
Last week was a vacation week for me, and I'm writing this before I leave for Atlantis and some of the most wonderful waterslides in the world. However, I had a heads-up on HP's announcement, and the Blackbird gaming machine is on the other side of incredible. This announcement basically assured Del...
Adobe on Thursday offered a sneak preview of its upcoming Flash Media Server 3, which will be released in the first quarter of next year. The new release will offer nearly double the performance of its predecessor, Adobe said, as it combines traditional streaming media capabilities with a flexible e...
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a man who allegedly used peer-to-peer file-sharing networks to obtain individuals' tax returns, credit reports and bank statements in order to commit identity theft and fraud. Gregory Kopiloff, 35, of Seattle allegedly used file-sharing software including Li...
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