After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing...

London, May 16 : Climate scientists have called for a massive investment in computer and research resources to help revolutionize modeling capabilities, with their eventual aim being providing probabilistic climate predictions that are as useful, and usable, as weather...

Washington, May 16 : Scientists are developing technology that could one day help in building three dimensional 'super road maps' of planets and moons....

Washington, May 16 : A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the development of bacteria-resistant films applied to medical devices and other surfaces to ward off microbial accumulation....

Washington, May 16 : MIT researchers claim they have boosted the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much wider market, especially in portable...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially launched a proxy fight to oust the Yahoo board in a bid to revive Microsoft's spurned deal for the Internet...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover...

Saturday, May 17, 2008 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: The software piracy rate has slightly dropped in Pakistan from 86 per cent to 84 per cent, after remaining unchanged over the past two...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) announced today that Zander Lurie, chief financial officer, will be presenting at the JPMorgan 36th Annual Technology...

May 16, 2008 - 5:42 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Rowan Cos. rose on Friday and helped send the Standard & Poor's 500 index to a higher finish, as the price of oil set a new all-time...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Former satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. on Sunday will demonstrate its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit that can tune in television and...

-- Peter Magowan announced Friday he will retire as the Giants' managing general partner at the end of this season, ending a 16-year reign that brought to San Francisco a new ballpark, Barry Bonds,...

Initially, echochrome is confusing. Mastering the perspective rules on the first few puzzles is difficult. In fact, it may drive some to total...

By DEBORAH YAOAP BUSINESS WRITER PHILADEPHIA -- Cable operators are riding high heading into this year's industry trade show, which kicks off this weekend. After a dismal 2007 in which their...

According to traffic measurements by comScore Inc., AOL has had seven consecutive months of year-over-year growth in both unique visitors and page...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO -- Classified ad Web site Craigslist is denying online auctioneer eBay's allegation that it unfairly diluted eBay's stake in it and says its board was acting to...

The Nasdaq-100 After Hours Indicator, which tracks the evening action of the tech-heavy index's leading stock, rose 0.76 point to...

Dork Talk graphic: hi-tech running systems It's probably an age thing, but my heart sinks when I arrive home and find that the item I've bought comes with an installation disc. It means an hour...

By ANICK JESDANUNAP INTERNET WRITER NEW YORK -- Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. Federal...

(05-16) 12:52 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping...

-- A Berkeley man was charged today with murdering a man and wounding another near the UC Berkeley campus in a shooting that a prosecutor said stemmed from "some perception of disrespect." ...

By JIM SALTERAP BUSINESS WRITER ST. LOUIS -- Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to...

CNBC.com The film and television industries are still struggling to find a way to make downloadable content work (and do so profitably), but the video game industry is making a series of significant...

-- California Sen. Barbara Boxer in an interview this week dismissed the uproar over whether likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama will be able to attract the white working class...

A student who allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted and handed a suspended two-year prison term Friday for copyright infringement in a case that has highlighted the lack of domestic laws to...

"They'll sell everything they can manufacture," said Signal Hill analyst Todd Greenwald. "It extends the life cycle of the Wii a little bit and gets people to go out and buy another game from...

Research ) have agreed to a licensing deal that gives Sony the right to use certain 3M optical film technologies for use in LCD television products, the companies said on...

, Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group for consumer PCs, said that it plans to introduce a new line of devices this fall that will be designed by teens, for teens. "We've used...

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. With everyone and their mother-in-law predicting a coming wave of acquisitions of so-called new media companies by old media outfits, that future's...

Visitors to AOL's main portal page may have seen a headline "Disgraced 'Oprah' Author Is Back" circulating, but those who clicked may have infected their computers, says Roger Thompson, Chief...

WujWuj is a badly named, yet really simple to use group gifting service. The aim is to let you gift a single friend with one or more items from Amazon.com and spread out the payment over a group of...

Qualcomm may be preparing to launch its MediaFlo mobile TV service in the U.K. The company this week said it has won 40MHz of wireless spectrum in the U.K. that would be ideal for mobile TV and...

Buzz Out Loud is CNET's "podcast of indeterminate length," featuring Tom and Molly's entertaining, sometimes caustic, and always skeptical take on technology news. This daily podcast features...

geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention...

extendable subwoofer. I can't help myself: I love gadgets that look like little creatures. The Duette, which is roughly the size of a golf ball, features a built-in battery that can be recharged via...

, the Eco TV deserves a place next to your Prius, your low-flow toilet valve and your almost-watched copy of An Inconvenient Truth. The display set new records...

Dell is taking steps to promote Alienware PCs on its Web site as the PC maker tries to collaborate more--rather than compete outright--with its Alienware...

Yahoo announced Friday that it has formed a partnership with three subsidiaries of advertising giant WPP: GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital. Through the deal, WPP agencies will have access to...

Ars Technica, a decade-old independent tech news and analysis site, is becoming a part of Conde Nast's Wired Digital group. The acquisition will be announced Monday, sources familiar with the...

will partner with developers of Sugar-compatible applications and other hardware makers that want to use the user interface on their devices. "By being independent of any specific hardware...

, a Danish company that specializes in online contact and calendar management. The price, as stated by Vodafone, is 31.5 million euros, or $48.7 million. "Using a Web portal as a link between the PC...

and hearing about them from all the companies, each has their own spin on what went down last month. Nintendo (rightfully so) chose to gloat about how well the Wii is selling. According to NPD, the...

MONCTON, N.B. - While most grooms spend the day before their wedding double-checking their tuxedo, Serge Cormier was making sure his radio cables were in good working order. The 30-year-old man...

Fujitsu PalmSecure is another option. Already in use in hospitals and government offices, the device reads the hand's vein pattern using near-infrared light. This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Bringing clean technologies to the developing world may not be the top priority for Silicon Valley deal makers, but interest is expanding, according to entrepreneurs, scientists,...

Two prominent members of the U.S. Congress are asking Charter Communications to hold off on its plan to monitor its customers' Web browsing and deliver relevant advertisements. In a letter to...

Firefly , a less than practical approach to letting your site visitors communicate with one another in real-time. The service lets everyone see each others cursors live as they zip around the page...

CHENNAI: NIIT Technologies has qualified as approved scanning vendor for PCI DSS (payment card industry data security standard). This brings NIIT Technologies into the group of security service...

Indictment says woman posed as a teen boy, feigned romantic interest in girl Prosecutors: She used false data to create account to "harass, abuse or harm" girl Authorities have said she set...