Oracle founder Larry Ellison recounts software company's first 30 years during kick-off keynote at Oracle Open World.

  Sixteen new chips based on new transistor design have Intel's server group in excellent shape heading into next year.

  Electronic Arts has gifted their massively successful, highly educational game to the foremost promoter of children's computers for the developing world.

  Roadside bombs in Iraq take a toll on U.S. troops, but a training system called HEAT can help them better cope with catastrophe.

  Here are CNET Reviews'10 favorite items from the past week, including the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, the HP MediaSmart Server ex475, RIM's BlackBerry Curve 8310, and more.

  A team from Silicon Valley hopes to make it through the grueling 1,300-mile race, Twittering as they go.

  A San Jose, Calif., team is updating a '69 Volkswagen with sat phones and GPS receivers to compete in the off-road race that kicks off this weekend.

  Top congressional Democrats put pressure on colleges and universities to stamp out peer-to-peer piracy or lose financial aid for all their students.

  In what is likely the largest civil challenge to BitTorrent tracker, pop star will file suit in three countries against The Pirate Bay, including the U.S. Prince accuses the site of profiting illegally from the work of artists.

  Artificial Muscle hopes its electrically controlled elastic materials may remake the innards of your next camera.

  Video: Now you can customize your auto's alert. CNET's Brian Cooley shows off new tech at the 2007 SEMA show in Las Vegas: a way to download MP3s to your car horn. If you hate other people's booming car audio systems, Horntones might push you right over the edge.

  Despite a delay in its launch until spring, Microsoft is taking its tabletop Surface computer on a promotion tour around the world.

  Video: Truck played role in first wireless Net connection. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., celebrates a nondescript converted bread truck for its instrumental role in developing the first mobile and wireless Internet connection. News.com's Kara Tsuboi introduces the engineers behind a feat that happened three decades ago this month.

  Free-speech debate dogs video-sharing site, Russia wants in on the high-tech industry, and Radiohead sings a different tune than ComScore.