FAIRBORN, Ohio - The pillars glide by as you float through the courtyard of an ancient palace. Moments later, the world turns blue as you slip along the ocean floor and poke through the Earth's crust in search of oil.
Workers rely on 19th century tech to fix Asia's Internet.
The gaming industry breaks out of its funk.
With Sharp's 108-inch LCD unveiled, we look back at TV history.
No cellphone? No e-mail? No way? (It's true.)
In a wired world, many Americans find they're working around the clock.
Online payment service PayPal is preparing to offer its users a new security weapon to help ward off data thieves and phishing scams with a password-generated key fob.
JERUSALEM - Condoleezza Rice let out a heavy sigh when asked Saturday whether as a single woman with no children she had difficulty appreciating the ramifications of war. It's a topic that has inflamed the Internet and talk radio in the U.S. since a Democratic senator challenged the secretary of state's personal stake in the Iraq war.
Congress wasted no time getting back to Internet legislation.
NEW YORK - Ben Leventhal and Lockhart Steele are a pair of bloggers fighting a guerrilla war against the city's publicists. Nearly every day, the two provide restaurant information on their popular Web site, Eater.com., posting tidbits that publicists aren't ready to release and traditional journalists haven't managed to print.
GENEVA - The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) - Xbox 360 bested Wii and PlayStation 3 in US holiday season sales as Microsoft scored what analysts expected to be a lasting victory in the new-generation video game console war.
SALT LAKE CITY - A key sponsor has withdrawn from an alternative media festival and six video game makers have pulled their entries over organizers' rejection of a game depicting the Columbine High School massacre.
With a few exceptions, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable hasn't had many good games since it was released a few years ago. The new "Metal Gear Solid: Portal Ops," (Rated M, $39.99) is one of those rare titles to buck that trend. This latest in a long series of spy-action thrillers from Hideo Kojima is about as good as gaming gets on the PSP.
TOKYO - Trying to regain its lead in the liquid crystal display TV market, Sharp Corp. announced plans to boost output with a 8 billion yen ($66.3 million) factory in Mexico and a new production line at a domestic plant.
TOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Canon will take full control of a joint venture for flat panel TVs using a new technology called SED, the company said Friday, in a move aimed at an early settlement of a legal dispute in the United States.
CUMMINGTON, Mass. - Poetry is not literally in the air as you drive through the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, but as the temperature cools and your cell phone loses its signal, a certain space does open up in your mind, a swell of rhythms from an older and calmer time.
It will likely pressure smartphone rivals and corporate IT to provide better mobile computing. But it's unlikely to change the company's status as a runner-up in businesses
Amid the 3G buildout comes a bevy of feature-rich devices and bandwidth-hungry services.
His usual smooth voice turned raspy, Steve Jobs nonetheless radiated the satisfied glow of a man who had just pulled off a bravura performance before a packed house at San Francisco's Moscone Center. In his hand was his latest gem: a combination phone/music player/Web browsing device called the iPhone. Tapping on its sleek, candy-bar-size screen, Jobs conjured up Wall Street's verdict: "Let's see, Apple's stock is up...8%!" he said matter-of-factly. "Now let's look at RIM (cell-phone rival and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM - News)). Hmm, it's down 7%."
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung, a leading producer of cell phones, is looking for a silver lining in Apple's move to storm the market with its new iPhone.
San Francisco (IDGNS) - The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) received more than $1 million for software piracy settlements in December, the group announced Friday.
NEW YORK - A strong December capped off a record year for the video game industry, with U.S. sales of software, hardware and accessories up 19 percent to $12.5 billion in 2006, according to market research firm NPD Group.
After announcing they would spend January trying to find flaws in Apple's OS X software, two researchers have published information on 10 vulnerabilities in the Mac so far.
The CTO at University of North Carolina Charlotte hopes an on-demand pilot project will lead to an enterprisewide rollout behind the firewall.
Ubiquity provides software used to develop session initiation protocol applications by telecom service providers, systems integrators, and software vendors.
For the 14th year in a row, IBM is the top patent holder in the United States. But is that a good thing?
The version it will offer late this year is geared to better delivery in the software-as-service model.
San Francisco (IDGNS) - AMD had a great year in 2006, using its success with the Opteron server processor to win greater respect from users -- and troubled rival Intel.
The 55 patches include 24 for bugs that can be exploited remotely by attackers, which generally are considered critical threats by security researchers and vendors.
San Francisco (IDGNS) - LinkedIn Corp. has added a question-and-answer service to its business-oriented networking site, the latest Internet company to unveil this type of increasingly popular feature.
Federal authorities are investigating a backdated stock-option grant awarded to Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs that carried a false October 2001 date, the Wall Street Journal reported.
It will likely pressure smartphone rivals and corporate IT to provide better mobile computing. But it's unlikely to change the company's status as a runner-up in businesses
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors confirmed late Friday that they have opened an investigation into stock options irregularities at Apple Inc.
Hours before Apple announced the iPhone, Cisco -- which later sued Apple, claiming to own the trademark -- issued a statement saying they expected to reach an agreement over the product name.
San Francisco (InfoWorld) - The bloom may be coming off the rose for Steve Jobs as investigators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission scrutinize the timing of a 2001 options grant that netted Apple's charismatic CEO an estimated $20 million, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.
"War" is a well-known and well-worn term in the tech industry. Witness the browser wars in which Microsoft and Mozilla vie for control over how you view the Web. The gaming wars refer to the three-way fight between Microsoft (a frequent combatant), Nintendo, and Sony, each of which sells a next-gen gaming console that flew off the shelves in the shopping frenzy of the 2006 holiday season.
Programmers are using the Lucene search engine library, a Web search crawler called Nutch, and Hadoop, an implementation of Google's MapReduce algorithm.
Among the features currently pegged as must-haves by Mozilla for Firefox 3 are an overhaul of the browser's bookmark system and new identity management tools.
The nonprofit group that hopes to bring inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world is now considering the possibility of allowing the $100 machines to be purchased by the general public.
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Motorola announced a new music-enabled mobile phone Monday that syncs its Linux OS with Microsoft's Windows Media Player on Windows XP, as well as PCs running Vista.
DALLAS - Each day, millions of people around the world gaze at their computer screens to explore a dangerous fantasy world of treasure-filled dungeons and flame-breathing dragons, a land where mortal enemies lurk around every corner.
FAIRBORN, Ohio - The pillars glide by as you float through the courtyard of an ancient palace. Moments later, the world turns blue as you slip along the ocean floor and poke through the Earth's crust in search of oil.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's a world where users pick their names, their sex, their clothes and even the time of day.
GENEVA - The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday.
With the announcement of the iPhone during Steve Jobs’ keynote on Thursday, Apple has put a tremendous amount of pressure on handset makers like Motorola and Nokia, according to industry analysts. Capitalizing on its legendary ease-of-use, Apple will be a competitor out of the gate.
CNN's Matt West reports on how the marketplace has received Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Zune. (January 11)
CNN's Renay San Miguel talks with computer gamer extraordinaire Johnathan "Fatality" Wendel (January 10)
AP's technology editors discuss why Apple's iPhone and Macworld Expo were such a huge hit. (Jan. 12)
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
