Information Technology
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Black and white and green all over -- new toner made from soy
Apr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPARTA, Wis. -- Every time you print out a page on a laser printer you're using toner made from petroleum-based products. Now there's a greener choice that shows promise...
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AMD posts deeper loss, shares fall
Apr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s loss widened in the first quarter as demand and prices for its microprocessors slumped and charges for the biggest restruc...
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Cut-rate prepaid plans shake up wireless industry
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cel...
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Windows washer: Meet Microsoft's antidote to Vista
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - REDMOND, Wash. -- Julie Larson-Green hopes you'll like Windows 7. If not, well, now you and a billion other people know whom to blame. Microsoft Corp. is counting on Lar...
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Oracle Corp. to buy Sun after IBM drops bid
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Inc.'s scramble to find a suitor landed the slumping server and software maker in the arms of Oracle Corp., which agreed to pay $7.4 bi...
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CityLights marks 10 years honoring tech industryApr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the largest galas honoring the technology industry in Illinois marks its 10th year on Thursday. The Illinois Technology Association's CityLights Awards, the Oscar...
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March video game sales slump more than expectedApr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- U.S. video game sales slumped more than expected in March and were flat in the first quarter when compared with a year earlier -- hurt by the recession, a s...
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YouTube boosts full-length movies, TV show lineup
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it is vastly expanding its library of full-length movies and TV shows it offers online, while also launching a new adv...
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Downloading hearing can't be streamed online
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- Oral arguments in a music downloading lawsuit filed by the recording industry against a Boston University student can't be streamed online, a federal appeals ...
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Gov't won't classify proxies as 'sophisticated'
Apr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. government has dropped -- for now -- a plan to classify the use of "proxy" servers as evidence of sophistication in committing a crime. Proxy ...