Royal Philips Electronics NV reported net profit of euro174 million ($256 million) for the third quarter on Monday, three times the depressed levels of a year ago, due to cost-cutting measures.
Excerpts from the Globe’s environmental blog. The Cape Cod-based International Fund for Animal Welfare is on the ground in the storm-ravaged Philippines.
HONOLULU - A 4-square-mile patch of Maui in the nation’s most fossil-fuel dependent state soon will be home to a new kind of power grid, one that saves energy by turning off household appliances when electricity is expensive and makes better use of wind and solar power.
There is no doubt car seats save lives, but they have not evolved much in recent years. Curtain air bags help shield adults and older children from side-impact crashes - a major cause of injury - but car seats have not offered that added protection for infants and younger children.
One day last spring, Oliver Yeh entertained a wacky daydream: What if he could send a camera way up into the atmosphere to take photos of the earth below?
The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access. The challenge is that the government has received $28 billion in requests.
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators will look into complaints by AT&T Inc. that Google Inc.’s free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge high connection fees.
Verizon Communications laid off about 200 technicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island yesterday as part of an effort to cut its workforce by 8,000 workers nationwide. But officials of the union that represents those employees plan to challenge the layoffs, saying they violate the terms of its contract with Verizon.
Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers -- the armies of infected personal computers, known as "botnets," that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime.
National Semiconductor Corp. said Friday that Chief Executive Brian Halla will retire as of Nov. 30 and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Donald Macleod, 61.
Federal regulators will look into complaints by AT&T Inc. that Google Inc.'s free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge high connection fees.
Most parents want their kids to twitter less, but not Billy Ray Cyrus. The country music star is urging daughter Miley Cyrus to return to Twitter. The 16-year-old pop star quit the microblogging site earlier this week, puzzling her fans. She had more than 1.1 million followers on the site.
