WASHINGTON: Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? The News Corp.
In June, lithium-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. unveiled plans for a new manufacturing plant in Auburn that it said would employ 600 workers -- a big gain in the state's drive for green jobs.
Psystar, the little company in Florida that seemed for a while to be based in the back of a truck while it made Apple clones based on PC hardware, has lost all its claims against Apple in a legal victory that is an important ruling against would-be clone makers.
Tirupati: The Indian Space Research Organization chief K. Radhakrishnan said here on Saturday that India is developing the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III to enhance the capability of the country to be a competitive player in the multimillion dollar commercial launch market.
In October, Microsoft announced a tool to allow netbooks lacking DVDs to install Windows 7; it was a key point of the new OS that it run on underpowered netbooks. Unfortunately, it improperly used GPL source code, which Microsoft admitted on Friday the 13th, a few days after pulling the tool.
Chip giant Intel Corp. has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices in a settlement that ends a five-year complaint over Intel's aggressive business practices.
Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues.
Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration on Friday backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months.The Food and Drug Administration said it would put the proposal on hold while it studies ways to make the popular shellfish safer.The abrupt turnaround came as oyster-lovers and industry ...
For most people (Sorry, Bing) Google is where they go when they want to find out about just about anything. Now it's also the place you can go to find flu shots.
Google's Chrome OS was first announced in July. While the company indicated it would not release the OS until 2H10, it promised an update in the fall. It looks like, according to reports, that update will be an early release version of the OS, coming next week.
While it's hard to imagine, there are people who don't have iTunes installed on their computer. Either its a work computer, a spare computer, or (gasp) they have a Zune or other MP3 player. Folks, Apple has a deal for you: no longer do you need to install iTunes if someone sends you an iTunes link. No, instead, there's iTunes Preview, which is essentially iTunes in a browser (more or less, click above to enlarge).
The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he plans to haul the search engine company before a federal court to force it to make changes to its Street View application.
