You know where you stand with business-oriented laptops. They're chunky, dull-looking machines with all the pizazz of a rainy afternoon in Chester. Dell's Vostro range has been a case in point: a...

Logitech International SA on Internet-enabled televisions and set top boxes. The New York Times and Bloomberg cited unnamed sources Wednesday night who said the Google TV project uses chips from...

, a high-tech optics company, was charged Wednesday as a company with illegally exporting defense-related items to China, Russia and other nations without a license, the office of U.S. Attorney for...

, the company said Wednesday evening. With the capital infusion, Metis, which developed a location-based emergency notification platform, can hire added staff members to help the company expand its...

You wouldn't think twice about having friends over to watch a movie or TV show on the big-screen TV in your living room. You'd surely hesitate before having these folks huddle around a laptop screen...

Sprint Nextel will unveil a cellphone from HTC Corp next week that will be the first to support WiMax, Sprint's fastest wireless service, according to analysts. Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service...

ZigBee Alliance said Wednesday that its Smart Energy 2.0 protocol for Smart Grid-enabled homes will run on Wi-Fi, in addition to its own low-power network. Originally, the first-generation Smart...

Google and DISH Network had begun testing a set-top box that uses Google as a search algorithm. In a story published late Wednesday, The New York Times went a step further, claiming that a "Google...

Mr Fraser says it is no shock to motorists, as a toll increase to $3.60 had already been announced. "The increase here of 35 cents is about delivering half-a-billion-dollars worth of road...

Arca BioPharma Inc. said Wednesday it has notified by the NASDAQ Stock Market that it has fallen short of equity requirements for continued listing. The NASDAQ notice said that as of Dec. 31,...

New Samsung AT&T Phones Strive to Be Social AT&T has unveiled four 'Quick Messaging' phones that will include a new suite of messaging, video, and photo sharing solutions, plus enhanced contacts...

recently released national broadband plan has grand ideas for hooking people up to high-speed Internet. But the plan also crafts a solution to a problem officials have been trying to solve since 2001...

has laid off about 140 workers in Kansas City, a union official said, an action the company blamed on declining customers for its traditional wireline business. Todd Appleby, vice president...

stock shot up more than 13 percent Wednesday after the Chaska-based maker of electronic circuit manufacturing equipment reported an order. FSI (Nasdaq: FSII) said “a major semiconductor...

CARACAS - Venezuela is not planning to censor the Web or to shut down social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, officials said on Monday, after President Hugo Chavez called for regulation...

Google has taken the beta tags off a recent Chrome update that adds privacy and translation tools to the browser. Google released a beta version of these features on March 2, but held off on...

New Samsung AT&T Phones Strive to Be Social AT&T has unveiled four 'Quick Messaging' phones that will include a new suite of messaging, video, and photo sharing solutions, plus enhanced contacts...

Canon is expanding its line of LCD multimedia projectors with two new 1,280-by-800 widescreen models plus four new 1024-by-768 versions, geared to educational and business presenters. The former have...

Logitech products. Plus, you get free shipping on all items. Save on webcams, speakers, gaming accessories, and more. You can get a webcam for as low as $12.99, computer mice for $3.99, keyboards for...

After a 2009 most PC vendors would like to forget -- except perhaps Acer, which passed Dell to become the world's second top vendor behind HP -- PC sales will begin to improve this year thanks to...

Ricoh Americas Corp. refers to its newest color inkjet printer, it's not what you think it is: Instead of liquid ink, the Aficio GX e5550N uses what Ricoh calls GelSprinter technology, with a viscous...

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. increased revenue in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the full year, but still made no profit. The Portland-based (OTCBB: BJCT) developer and manufacturer of...

losil Energy Corp. has closed on a $13.5 million round of financing. The Albuquerque-based company, which formed in 2007, makes high-grade polysilicon for the photovoltaic industry from waste...

’s Nexus One smartphone soon will be available on Sprint’s wireless nextwork. The Overland Park-based company (NYSE: S) said it would disclose availability and pricing later. Google...

CEO Steve Jobs. The show will be called "iCon" and Newsweek contributor Dan Lyons has been signed up as the writer. Lyons is no stranger to sending up the Apple executive, writing about...

HTC HD2 , which looks to be the best Windows Mobile 6.5 device ever conceived based on its specs alone. It carries a 4.3-inch, 800-by-480-pixel screen, a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, and the HTC Sense...

LLC has opened an office in Amsterdam, the technology company’s second office in Europe. Peter Speybrouck is heading the new Amsterdam office and is currently growing the company’s staff...

has named Fokko Pentinga as the company’s president, moving him over from the company’s solar subsidiary. The move, announced Tuesday, will have J.S. Whang remain as the company’s...

will stop selling clear film covers for the screens of its iPhones and similar devices in its company stores, according to news reports. The Cupertino company itself (NASDAQ: AAPL) hasn’t said...

Pitney Bowes Inc. has cut jobs at its North Greenbush office­­­—among other offices—as it reviews its staffing levels company wide, a company official said. On Tuesday,...

IBM Corp. has launched a business-plan competition in which the company will look to partner with five Boston-area technology companies with less than $1 million in revenue. The program, called...

University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa honored three professors within the system — including one in San Antonio — with the 2010 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship and...

. According to the Nasdaq’s March 9 letter, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company (Nasdaq: MIPI) has not met the Nasdaq’s minimum market capitalization of $50 million for 30 consecutive...

has launched an early stage trial for a potential treatment for side effects of opiod use for patients will chronic pain. The Waltham, Mass.-based company will conduct a phase 1 study on ALKS 37, a...

Google Inc. trying to sort out problems created by its possible withdrawal from China. On Tuesday, China’s government television broadcaster posted a letter to Google on its web site,...

(NASDAQ:YHOO) Bassel Ojjeh and Krishna Uppala, and former SAS executive Basel Tutunji. "As broadband and connected devices proliferate, the amount of data available explodes. According to...

Yahoo says it has agreed to acquire Citizen Sports, a San Francisco startup which provides sports applications for social networking sites and mobile...

Google Apps For Business (and Education) customers sync services with Outlook and Blackberries, and last year, it introduced a migration tool for users of Lotus Notes. As of Wednesday, the company is...

If Chatroulette has taught us anything (besides how filthy a surprisingly large number of people are), it's that a lot of people have terrible webcams. They produce grainy images, don't do well in...

China , as speculation increases over Google's future in the world's largest Internet market. Their demand comes amid signs that Google Inc may soon move to close Google.cn, more than two months...

European Union could be lost over the next five years if more is not done to clamp down on illegal downloading. The study by TERA Consultants for the International Chamber of Commerce focused on...

New Samsung AT&T Phones Strive to Be Social AT&T has unveiled four 'Quick Messaging' phones that will include a new suite of messaging, video, and photo sharing solutions, plus enhanced contacts...

LOS ANGELES, March 16 (Reuters) - Twentieth Century Fox on Tuesday set Earth Day, April 22, for the DVD and Blu-ray release of "Avatar". But fans will have to wait until November for another disc...

Windows IE9 Platform Preview , as well as the final version, won't run on anything but the latest Microsoft operating systems. Users trying to run the preview code on an XP system will receive the...

New Samsung AT&T Phones Strive to Be Social AT&T has unveiled four 'Quick Messaging' phones that will include a new suite of messaging, video, and photo sharing solutions, plus enhanced contacts...

Classmates.com has agreed to pay more than $9.5 million to settle a class-action suit that accused the Web site of duping customers into signing up for paid services. According to...

Nvidia has announced the release of its new 3DTV Play software, which allows owners of desktops and laptops that use Nvidia graphics to connect their Windows Vista or Windows 7 systems to new 3D...

A U.S. district court in Texas has awarded VirnetX Holding Corp. $105.75 million in damages, as part of a judgment against Microsoft for infringing two VirnetX patents. VirnetX will request...

Informatics Corporation of America plans to nearly double its staff this year to 86 as it works to meet demand for its technology, which makes hospital records more accessible. The company’s...