HANDS-FREE CALLING I always try to get my wife Lisa off the phone when she calls me from the highway on her commute home from Providence. (Rhode Island drivers make their Massachusetts counterparts seem downright cautious on the road.) "It's OK," she always says. "I've got my headphone in."
Wearable displays Myvu's new headset for video iPods makes you feel as if you are sitting in front of a large TV, in a darkened room, rather than staring at a tiny screen in the palm of your hand.
Half of more than 3,000 retail stores that a wireless security company secretly monitored at major shopping areas in the United States and Europe use wireless data systems vulnerable to hacking, the firm said yesterday.
Here's a first: Bug-size robots have been used to coax cockroaches into unnatural acts. Research reported yesterday in the journal Science described how a team of European scientists placed tiny robots in a colony of laboratory cockroaches. Using behavioral modification methods, the whirring, partly-disguised faux insects were able to induce the real creepy-crawlies to follow their lead in seeking shelter ...
Standing next to Jenny Lake, park ranger Diane McGee tells students about the plants and animals at Grand Teton National Park. "Very soon, we will have snow falling on the ground," she says. "Winters here are very long. We get up to 200 inches of snow here on the valley floor."
Extending its homeland security business overseas, Waltham defense giant Raytheon Co. yesterday signed a deal worth $1.35 billion over the next 10 years to help the United Kingdom control its borders.
SAN FRANCISCO - European Union regulators started an in-depth investigation into Google Inc.'s plan to buy DoubleClick Inc. , saying the purchase may hurt competition for online advertising dollars.
ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's website free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue.
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. agreed to provide legal and financial support to the families of two jailed Chinese dissidents to settle claims it committed human rights abuses when it gave China information that led to the men's arrests.
Garmin , the world's largest maker of personal navigation devices, withdrew a $3.3 billion takeover bid for Dutch digital mapmaker Tele Atlas NV on Friday, clearing the way for rival TomTom.
With oil prices surging and U.S. stock prices slumping, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s sale of an 8.1 percent stake to the Abu Dhabi government's investment arm represents the latest plunge by a wealthy Middle Eastern nation into a troubled U.S. corporation.
EarthLink Inc. , which has been a chief evangelist for blanketing cities with wireless Internet service, said Friday that it plans to consider "strategic alternatives" for that business.
Cisco Systems Inc. has boosted its stock buyback effort by $10 billion, a sign the Internet networking supplier still believes its shares are undervalued.
