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...

THIS IS AN ARTIST'S RENDERING of the Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Technology Center to be built on the campus of Florida Southern College. The new building will occupy the site of the old Columbia...

7 cool Bluetooth gadgets Bluetooth revolutionized electronics 10 years ago with its wireless technology that enables devices to communicate with each other. Here's a look at some of the latest...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity. By mimicking the antics of...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) and IBM(2) (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new service assurance solution combining IBM Tivoli Netcool Carrier VoIP Manager...

-- The Senate passed the $290 billion, five-year farm bill by a strong veto-proof margin Thursday, ensuring that the measure becomes law despite President Bush's threatened veto, which would be the...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Technology is different. Despite pervasive economic uncertainty, that's the message that many of the industry's big firms are sending in their latest earnings reports. We may be...

Crosswords DS packs more than 1,000 crosswords into the handheld Nintendo DS, offering the puzzles on four levels of difficulty. The Easy level has 200 puzzles on which children and crossword newbies...

Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 percent less energy than...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. said Friday it will team with WPP Group PLC on digital display advertising.Three of WPP Group's divisions, GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital, will work with...

on Wednesday. According to Moore, a bug in a Debian OpenSSL package was created in 2006 by the removal of a piece of code, which was taken out to stop the Valgrind and Purify security tools...

The deployment will cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The cost of the rollout is covered by an annual service agreement with IBM. Although it's unclear...

The Commission is promoting the intelligent use of tech to improve efficiency in buildings, lighting and power grids in order to make significant inroads into reducing Europe's carbon footprint. It...

automatic translation services can inspire , they are nonetheless much better than nothing. However, they are generally a fairly unidirectional affair - you bung in the URL or paste the text, and out...

-- Four state Supreme Court justices may have made history, but they overreached and invited a voter backlash that will quickly undo their decision to allow same-sex marriages, opponents of the...

-- A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded today in Berkeley and police are searching for the assailant. The shooting happened shortly after 3 p.m. at the corner of Dwight and Martin Luther King Jr....

Two bank-robbery suspects were captured Thursday after an alert witness flagged down a Vallejo police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said. The armed robbery happened about 10 a.m. at...

CBS Corp. is buying San Francisco technology news provider Cnet Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion in a cash deal that will make CBS one of the 10 largest Internet companies in the country, the companies...

-- There were whoops of joys and hugs and tears among scores of gay rights advocates and same-sex couples this morning outside the California Supreme Court building in San Francisco as word spread...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By STEVE LAWSON RUMOURS are rife on technology websites that Apple will launch a 3G iPhone next month - but one of their biggest rivals have beaten them to...

-- The parents of a 17-year-old San Jose boy who was fatally mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim against the city Thursday in the latest legal salvo over the Christmas Day...

J.A. Watson Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio calls (including PSTN calls worldwide) for quite some time now. The chat interface is clean...

-- A takeover bid by Microsoft Corp. recently averted, Yahoo Inc. found itself back in the crosshairs Thursday after billionaire investor Carl Icahn took aim at replacing the Web portal's board with...

) May 16, 2008 -- Internet Television broadcaster AmericaFree.TV announced today the Internet Premiere online of the film "1 nite", the award winning debut digital feature from director...

-- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable...

For the second year in a row, online office supply superstore BuyOnlineNow.com has been named on the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide of the largest online retail stores. Rochester, MN...

software for building online communities around commercial brands found in gaming, sports, entertainment, publishing and other industries. Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, released this week, has a number...

A major Yahoo investor weighed in late Wednesday with support for Carl Icahn's initiative to unseat Yahoo's board, signaling yet another salvo to be fired in the coming weeks as the proxy fight...

The L.E.A.D. Program (Leadership Education and Development) is a pioneer in minority youth development and corporate diversity with nearly thirty years of successful partnerships between top MBA...

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on...

-- A portion of Highway 4 is shut down in Concord as California Highway Patrol officers try to clear out about 50 cows that mysteriously wandered onto the highway tonight. No one knows where they...

-- A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury. The issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually...

-- Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for network neutrality laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Embattled Yahoo Inc has struck an advertising partnership deal with WPP Group that will let WPP buy ads on Yahoo's online ad exchange, the companies said late on...

, a division of Kadant Inc. (NYSE:KAI), a leading global provider of process solutions, introduces the UNiGY® PhD™ system, a significant advance in pump control technology for high-pressure...

In a blog post titled Safari Carpet Bomb, Nitesh Dhanjani describes how a rogue website can easily download resources to the Windows desktop or downloads directory on the Mac. "Apple does not feel...

Software provider Kashmoo.com has signed a new agreement with Preferred Brands, the parent company of the Floor to Ceiling and World of Floors dealer groups, to offer discounts and standard...

-- Roberta Pursley's body was found about 150 yards off the Richmond shoreline April 28. Her injuries, medical examiners said, were consistent with a plunge from a great height into water. And there...

kept good notes in his recap of the evening.) Most of what got offered up was unexceptional, but one comment in particular from Josh Kopelman may turn out to be one of the most prescient forecasts of...

-- The California Supreme Court struck a historic but possibly short-lived blow for gay rights Thursday, overturning a state law that allowed only opposite-sex couples to marry. In a 4-3 ruling...

project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries...

It's deadline day for shareholders of Take-Two Interactive Software, the video game company undergoing a hostile takeover bid from its much bigger rival Electronic Arts. Today is the day those...

-- A week after being paroled for bank robbery, Horace Bordelon returned to the same downtown Oakland bank and held it up again in 2004. His defense at trial? He robbed the bank only so he could...

PRWEB ) May 16, 2008 -- According to NS&I's (National Savings and Investments) Century of Saving report, technological advances will increase the number of people keeping their savings and...