The Xiph.Org Foundation, creator of the royalty-free Vorbis audio encoding technology made suddenly relevant by Google's WebM project, is nearing... read more »
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A new type of solar thermal system for homes that can provide heat, hot water, and electricity is being tested in Boulder, Colo., over the next few m... read more »
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Google is ready to fire a shot across the bow of the so-called content farms, willing to acknowledge recent criticism of the quality of its search re... read more »
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Apple has been accused by a coalition of 36 Chinese environmental groups of ignoring hazardous and unhealthy conditions at the factories in China whe... read more »
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Warner Music Group is reportedly entertaining acquisition offers even as the third-largest record company continues to pursue its own acquisition of... read more »
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HP Chairman Ray Lane. (Credit: Hewlett Packard) Just a few months removed from the Mark Hurd scandal, Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is ge... read more »
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Mobile e-mail is growing in popularity while the use of Web-based e-mail seems to be waning, according to a new study from ComScore. Looking back at ... read more »
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LG&39's Quantum, one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Although Microsoft gave the team that created the Windows Phon... read more »
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BrightSource has been tapped to build its LPT 550 solar thermal &39'power tower&39' system for the island of Crete, Greece. (Credit: BrightSource) ... read more »
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Chill factor: the N200 solar bulb basks in the winter sun. (Credit: Tim Hornyak ) The mercury reads 12 degrees outside, but it feels like minus ... read more »
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Keynotes at technology trade shows can be hit or miss. Sometimes you're privy to an hour of juicy news (Verizon at CES 2011) and other times you ... read more »
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Mozilla has barred a Skype extension for Firefox, accusing it of causing 40,000 browser crashes a week and of dramatically slowing page-load time... read more »
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Advanced Micro Devices executives made relatively upbeat statements about tablets and seemed to go beyond previous comments by former CEO Dirk Meyer,... read more »
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The Open Software Initiative and the Free Software Foundation yesterday released a joint statement, urging the U.S. Department of Justice, as well... read more »
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A fact sheet details how Google Offers would work. (Credit: Mashable) Just a month after being rebuffed in a buyout offer of Groupon, Google is ... read more »
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If you know what this is and where this photograph was taken, you could win a prize in the Picture of the Week challenge. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/... read more »
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Verizon Communications has fired the first shot in the legal war to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission's new Net neutrality rules. The... read more »
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(Credit: Screenshot by Jasmine France) As evidenced by the introduction of Unifi at CES 2011, there's a move to provide cloud storage services tha... read more »
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Modern CEOs live on airplanes. But in stepping down from the CEO role to become executive chairman, Eric Schmidt's travel schedule is about to go int... read more »
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The VP8 encoding technology at the heart of Google's effort to spread royalty-free video across the computing industry now has a home at the Inte... read more »
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