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When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight RIA (rich interactive application) platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market ...

Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-basedNeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action ...

World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One ...

Just one day after Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not renew his contract with the company, the German engineering and technology giant admitted Thursday that it is the focus of an expanding, multinational probe over allegations of bribery and corruption ...

MySpace and TV producer Mark Burnett announced Friday that they are working on a new reality TV show focused on finding the next great American politician ...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago ...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago ...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago ...

The 2008 presidential campaigns have already been notable for several "firsts" in their use of technology, and on Monday a new one was added to the list when Yahoo, Slate and The Huffington Post announced they will host the first-ever online-only debates this fall ...

In a case considered by many to be the first of its kind, the World Organization for Human Rights USA announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo and its subsidiaries for what it calls the Internet giant's complicity in human rights abuses and acts of torture in China ...

Just two days after it accepted a sweetened merger agreement with a private investment group, Clear Channel Communications announced Friday that it will sell its TV group ...

Internet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google's Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search -- not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive ...

Clear Channel Communications accepted a new, increased bid to buy the company Wednesday, but there is widespread skepticism on whether the offer will be enough to satisfy shareholders ...

As the midnight filing deadline loomed large for America's taxpayers Tuesday, users of TurboTax were frustrated by delays in the software's electronic filing system that caused many to miss the deadline. Luckily for them, the Internal Revenue Service understands ...

In yet another not-so-subtle challenge to the dominance of Microsoft's Office software suite, Google announced on Tuesday that it will be adding presentation software to its Google Apps suite of office software ...

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) delivered a severe blow to Internet radio operators Monday when it upheld its earlier decision regarding royalty rates that must be paid to artists for music played online ...

Electronic Arts (EA) and Endemol announced Monday that they are partnering on Virtual Me, a new avatar-based offering in digital entertainment that is expected to span the worlds of TV and video games ...

Following Google's announcement Friday that it is acquiring online advertising company DoubleClick, its Internet and media rivals began urging regulators to scrutinize the US$3.1 billion deal ...

A new collaborative project between the U.S. military and the communications industry promises to give new meaning to the term "satellite communications" by sending an Internet router into space ...

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, but the 63-34 vote in favor of the bill fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override an expected presidential veto ...