3-D printer maker Stratasys to acquire desktop rival MakerBot
3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over US$400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence.
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Some gamers mourn Microsoft's Xbox One DRM reversal
There was a largely euphoric reaction online in the hours after Microsoft reversed its policies for the upcoming Xbox One game console, which had restricted resales of used games and required a constant Internet connection.
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CIOs bemoan lock-in and the 'false flexibility' of the cloud
Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday.
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Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.
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Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools
Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them.
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Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition
Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company's device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Intel joins Samsung, Qualcomm in wireless power consortium
Intel has joined the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), a consortium founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, as the chip maker looks to bring wireless charging to tablets and laptops.
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3D printer creates lithium-ion batteries the size of a grain of sand
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
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Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid
House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans.
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Update: Countries question Google on Glass privacy
Privacy officials from six countries and the European Commission are pushing Google to answer questions about privacy issues surrounding its digital eyewear called Glass.
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