In coming years, people who own electric cars will need someplace -- other than their homes -- to plug them in when they are out and about. Coulomb Technologies hopes to supply that service in the ...

The terrorists who attacked Mumbai last week with automatic rifles and grenades also used a Garmin GPS device. Indian investigators seized the device and are using it to track the terrorists' ...

In Microsoft's quest to simplify the Windows 7 user interface, they're actually making it harder to use. So argues Windows expert Paul Thurrott on his SuperSite for Windows blog. Thurrott, the ...

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has accused Intel of deliberately stalling a European Union antitrust investigation through Intel's appeal to Europe's second highest court in October, a senior AMD ...

News aggregator Techmeme is perhaps the fastest way to find interesting tech news – it takes minutes to find and link to breaking stories, as opposed to the hours or days that rivals like Digg or ...

(Updated) An unknown number of users with Yahoo Mail accounts have experienced problems with the Web-based service this afternoon. In the past two hours, there have been more than 100 twitter ...

IT vendors may be growing increasingly desperate amid the global economic downturn, but customers must employ a range of tactics -- not just bullying -- to extract cost savings from them, a group of ...

An Apple support document advocating the use of antivirus programs by Mac users has been removed from Apple.com. The posting caused a stir in the tech blogosphere before bloggers noticed that the ...

The iPod is going to medical school. Officials said Tuesday that an Apple Inc. portable media player will become standard equipment for Ohio State University med students. They'll use the devices to ...

The first round of registrations for the new TLD (top-level domain) .tel will open Wednesday. The new TLD isn't a run of the mill domain like, for example .com or .org. It's not about Web content ...

Apple's Safari browser hit a record 7.13% user penetration for November, according to a report by Net Applications and described on Market Share's Hits Link page. It's very impressive, considering ...

Sunrise Solar, an alternative energy consulting firm based in San Antonio, Texas, announced the opening of a new office in China this week. The Beijing office is the company's first permanent ...

Samsung announced two new Blu-ray players last week that have the ability to stream Netflix HD content as well as play physical media. The devices' streaming ability makes sense. Netflix's existing ...

The Taiwanese government stands ready to help its ailing DRAM industry but hopes to avoid U.S.-style capital injections, the island's president said Wednesday. "The plight of the DRAM industry is ...

Digital game developer Electronic Arts (EA) announced its second move into Asia's online game market on Tuesday, by buying South Korean online game developer J2MSoft Inc. "This is a significant ...

Using Wikipedia to read up on your medications may be more dangerous than you might expect. It's not because Wikipedia is inaccurate -- it's because it's incomplete. Researchers at Nova Southeastern ...

Jonathan Miller, the well-respected former AOL CEO, has been talking for months to potential investors interested in buying all or part of Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Miller, ...

[Editor's note: It's no secret that online advertising is starting to slow down in response to the economic slump. Display ads, the meat and potatoes for companies like Yahoo, have been hit ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Jodange to improve tools that mine online content such as blogs, wikis and RSS feeds to judge public opinion. The company will research ...

A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday. The authors of the report, "2020 FLOSS ...

A number of tech news blogs have noted today that Apple has a new support page that urges users to install antivirus software to protect themselves. The company recommends the "widespread use ...