Billions to be spent on smart-grid cybersecurity
Utilities to invest $21 billion over the next five years to protect the smart grid against everything from terrorist attacks to natural disasters, according to a Pike Research report.
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Could cable lose its grip on TV business?
The two largest cable operators reported strong profits and broadband subscriber additions, but the companies are losing their bread-and-butter video subscribers.
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Wind power growth gated by radar conflicts
Radar has trouble spotting planes near wind turbines, which is derailing thousands of megawatts worth of wind. Technical fixes are possible in long term but lengthy reviews can scrap projects.
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Sega fans rejoice: Sonic 4 on the way
After a 16-year wait, Sega unveils a follow-up to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii this summer.
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AT&T to greenlight Sling Player on iPhone
After almost a year, the company is now allowing people to use the Sling Player App on the iPhone over its 3G wireless network.
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Happy Birthday, The Sims
One of the industry's most enduring and popular game franchises celebrates its 10th anniversary Thursday. It's in 60 different countries with $2.5 billion in sales.
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Robonaut 2: The offspring of GM and NASA
The humanoid handyman is expected to be equally comfortable working the assembly line in Detroit and puttering around a spacecraft headed far, far away.
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The terrible twos
Monster buys Yahoo HotJobs, we have some early photos of the first WiMax phone from Sprint, and young people do not blog anymore. Plus: Loaded is 2 years old today!
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Sony sales, earnings bounce back
The PS3 and Vaio PCs helped the consumer electronics maker to a strong quarter and an improved forecast for its full fiscal year.
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Measuring the smart-grid effect
Deployment of smart-grid systems would reduce U.S. carbon emissions from utilities 12 percent by 2030, according to DOE researchers.
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Symbian now fully open-sourced
All source code for the mobile phone OS is now available for free under the Eclipse license and other open-source licenses
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Apple, Google, and the importance of Bing
Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful--witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft.
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Lenovo hits stride in third quarter
Revenue and profit jump in the company's fiscal third quarter as the PC maker takes its largest-ever share of the worldwide market.
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Season premiere floods 'Lost' fan wiki
It wasn't a record-breaker for Lostpedia.com, a fan wiki devoted to the obsessively detailed sci-fi series, but the show's final-season premiere did bring in the hordes of devotees.
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Toyota's latest woes may be hard-wired
As the world's largest automaker recalls millions of cars to replace sticky accelerator pedals, safety questions arise related to car electronics.
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Report: Google, NSA talk defense partnership
The electronic surveillance agency is finalizing an agreement to help the search giant ward off cyberattacks like the ones that originated in China, according to a Washington Post report.
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Police survey provides glimpse of Net-surveillance figures
A relatively small group of 100 police working on Internet investigations reports submitting as many as 22,800 legal requests for information a year to Internet providers.
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Spotify has much to do before U.S. launch
Lately, Spotify is a rumor magnet, and one going around suggests the company is for sale. One thing is for sure, before it rolls out in U.S., service needs to license some music.
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New virus-detecting lab on a chip gets even better
A team of BYU engineers and chemists figures out how to interface macro levels of liquid onto their microscopic silicon chip to detect viruses at even very low concentrations.
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East to west, 'Street Sounds' maps U.S. in audio
New online project aims to create an audio map of the country. It's a great way to relive the drama of a tropical Florida thunderstorm, amble through San Francisco's Chinatown, or visit that Connecticut Radio Shack you've always wanted to see.
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