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IBM puts executive on leave after charges

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- IBM Corp. has placed a top executive on leave after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners.


Apple announced that developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs

Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programs

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.


Apple hires Intel's top lawyer

Technology / Business

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Apple Inc. says it has hired Intel Corp.'s top lawyer, Bruce Sewell, a day after the chip maker announced his departure.


DirecTV to appoint PepsiCo executive as CEO (AP)

DirecTV to appoint PepsiCo executive as CEO

Technology / Business

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- DirecTV Group Inc. is naming the vice chairman of PepsiCo Inc. as its chief executive.


US media giant Hearst Corp. on Friday launched LMK.com, a free online magazine that scours the Internet for news

New Hearst e-magazine weaves tales from Internet

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US media giant Hearst Corp. on Friday launched LMK.com, a free online magazine that scours the Internet for news and photos and presents the information as topic pages.


The North Research Laboratory building under construction at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Saudi aims for moon with new hi-tech research oasis

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Saudi Arabia was on Wednesday to launch a new hi-tech mixed-sex university on the Red Sea coast aimed at catapulting the kingdom into the forefront of global technological research.


NASA puts new rocket on launch pad for test flight (AP)

NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...


Google injects search savvy into display ad system (AP)

Google injects search savvy into display ad system

Technology / Internet

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough.


US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel, EPIX, on Friday, letting subscribers watch films

Verizon launches TV-online movie channel

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.


A woman watches the trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson on a computer

Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.


Google search is getting eyes and ears, moving beyond typed key words

Google search getting eyes and ears

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google search is getting eyes and ears, moving beyond typed key words to let people scour the Internet with mobile telephone cameras or spoken words in multiple languages.


U.S. losing its lead in space, experts warn Congress

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (9) | comments 6

America's once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of experts told the House subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.


Google's Wave communications platform testing continues to be private with "a lot of features yet to be done"

Google wants businesses to ride Wave

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.


Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday announced it is making Blackberry devices friendlier to game applications

Blackberry buddies up to game developers

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday announced it is making Blackberry devices friendlier to game applications, as the business-oriented smartphones try to show a more playful side.


Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson accused Google of promoting online news reading a "promiscuity"

Newspaper, Internet titans duel at Web 2.0 Summit

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson opened fire on Google, accusing the Internet giant of promoting online news reading "promiscuity."