GM: Without software, Chevy Volt is stuck in neutral
General Motors needed serious software engineering to manage the innards of the Chevy Volt and bring the electric car from the concept to reality.
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India calls off BlackBerry ban
Following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, the Indian government cancels the BlackBerry ban based on an interim solution from RIM.
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IDC: Kinect to outsell Move this holiday season
Market researcher says Microsoft's and Sony's motion-gaming peripherals can expect a strong holiday season with up to 5.25 million units selling in the fourth quarter.
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Happy Movember
Facebook will make a mobile announcement this week, PayPal can pick up the check at local restaurants, and Cisco's Flip Cam grows a mustache for a good cause.
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Logitech keyboard goes solar
Keyboard's technology is very similar to what is found in solar-powered watches that absorb indoor and outdoor light.
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Xbox 360 update taps ESPN, Zune Music
Microsoft has launched the console's fall update, which includes access to ESPN and Zune Music and streamlines Netflix search.
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Google speeds its new Web video software
The "Aylesbury" release of Google's streaming video technology decodes WebM video faster and encodes it better, the company says. Coming by March: "Bali."
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Rasmussen: Why I left Google for Facebook
In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, the co-developer of Google Maps and Google Wave, Lars Rasmussen, says that the social network is the place to be.
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Half of IT pros plan to use XP after support ends
Microsoft plans to discontinue support for Windows XP in April 2014. Regardless, 48 percent of IT professionals say they'll carry on using it.
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New JooJoo pitch: 'We're still alive'
Next year's new JooJoo tablets will be smaller and save the user's workspace to the cloud.
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Accused 'Hurt Locker' pirates turn to law school
Few are as familiar with the lawsuits filed by indie film studios against accused file sharers as Robert Talbot. The law professor represents 23 such people free of charge.
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CompactFlash sequel arrives: CFast memory cards
CFast, an overhaul of the higher-end memory card format, is arriving--but only in industrial equipment, not cameras, so far.
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The unvarnished truth about unsecured Wi-Fi
Criminal hackers can sniff your traffic and attack your computer through your unsecured Wi-Fi network. Seriously.
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Pay dirt: Why rare earth metals matter to tech (FAQ)
It was once an obscure topic only for geologists. But China's control over rare earth elements used in green- and high-tech equipment is causing alarm as the nation cuts exports.
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Microsoft hopes to show its Cloud Power
The software maker is kicking off its largest-ever ad campaign targeting businesses.
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Browser momentum: Chrome has it, IE doesn't
IE lost another sliver of its dominance while Chrome grew in usage, according to October usage statistics.
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Blekko launches the biased search engine
Tired of generic search results? Blekko's engine and philosophy really is different.
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Facebook app developers sold user info
Social-networking giant announces it has discovered that a data broker was buying identifying user information from app developers.
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Star Trek's Enterprise now has an owner's manual
Haynes, a company famous for producing car manuals, releases an owner's manual for the USS Enterprise. It follows the evolution of the different starships and will surely be a wonderful Christmas gift.
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Repairs complete, shuttle countdown begins
Engineers successfully repair suspect pressurization fittings and started the shuttle Discovery's countdown for a Wednesday launch to the International Space Station.
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