Information Technology
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IBM forces iPod exec to stop workingNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - International Business Machines Corp. won a court order forcing Apple Inc.'s new executive in charge of the iPod and iPhone devices to stop work immediately because he m...
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Microsoft missing netbook growth as Linux wins salesNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows business. A new breed of lightweight computers called netbooks are beginning to crack the company'...
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New shopping Web site opens in time for holidaysNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - While the world focused on the elections, three suburban men this week launched a new shopping Web site. The site, called UWantSavings.com, offers both social networking...
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China wants rich countries to transfer technology
Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - BEIJING _ China will try to persuade rich countries at a U.N.-sponsored climate change conference that opened Friday to transfer more technology to developing countries...
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CNN goes Star Wars with election night hologramsNov 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Did you see it? CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer interviewed two people in Grant Park Tuesday night via hologram. The network's high-tech Election Night stu...
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Play N Trade hits in AuroraNov 05, 2008 10:00 pm - A fast- growing video game franchise recently opened its first suburban store. Play N Trade, recently launched a store in Aurora at 1460 N. Orchard Road, Suite 102, nea...
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Cisco warns of demand shortfall
Nov 05, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, warned Wednesday that orders fell off abruptly in October and projected a large fa...
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FCC OKs use of white spaces to deliver broadband
Nov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON _ The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to open up unused, unlicensed portions of the television airwaves known as "white spaces" to deliver wir...
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IBM offers Symphony to Mac, Linux usersNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - International Business Machines Corp., working to win users away from Microsoft Corp.'s Office programs, adapted its free word processing and document software for use w...
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Google pulls out of Yahoo advertising partnership
Nov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Google Inc. has scrapped its Internet advertising partnership with struggling rival Yahoo Inc., abandoning attempts to overcome the objections of antitrust...