The iPad is shown after it was unveiled at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.Not since Adam and Eve has the appearance of an Apple in the Holy Land caused such uproar. Israel is a wonderland of high-tech innovation but it is certainly no Garden of E…
Space shuttle Discovery lands CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth on Tuesday after making a rare flyover of America’s heartland to wrap up their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey to the International Spac…
Early artist’s rendition of the X-37Boeing’s secretive Phantom Works, under the direction of U.S. Air Force, plans to launch the compact X- 37B space plane on April 21. If successful, the plane will be the first robot spacecraft to complete an orbita…
Microsoft said Friday that it has wrapped up development work on the next version of the Office family, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010.The products were “released to manufacturing,” which is the final engineering s…
Microsoft’s Fix it Center, now in beta, consists of both an online service and downloadable software. It’s designed to bring some of the diagnostic capabilities built into Windows 7 to older PCs.Microsoft is testing a new “Fix it Center”–an online…
YouTube’s streamlined new design has ruffled a few feathers, particularly among users who prefer the old five-star rating system to the new thumbs-up or thumbs-down options. Still, early impressions seem generally favorable. Playbacks are up, and more …
The iPad may be the first tablet computer to seize the imaginations of a large number of consumers, but HP wants the world to know that competition is on the way. The company has released a video showing its upcoming Slate, which apparently will have a…
Twitter has decided it’s time to leave the nest and take flight with a new ad-centric business model. Can the little microblogging service that could maintain good relations with its developers? Or are new rivals — or partners — just around the corne…
At least on paper, the HTC EVO 4G from Sprint absolutely crushes. It’s not just one killer feature that puts the EVO over the top; the spec sheet reads like a wish list for anyone who’s owned a touchscreen smartphone. We won’t find out until this summe…
Virgin already went live with their new HSPA+ network on Friday, but today they made it official with a launch party that had Victoria Secret models. Not to shabby! Looks good to be a member of Virgin… just remember that Bell owns Virgin so you’re …
Google has asked the Federal Communications Commission to designate it as one of the administrators of a database for “white space” devices.For several years, Google has been among the companies urging the FCC to open up the “white spaces”–small amoun…
Los Angeles (dpa) – Total receipts at the US box office reached 9.87 billion dollars in 2009 and surpassed total sales of DVDs for the first time since 2002, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, quoting a new study by Adams Media Research.The box o…