Rumor: The Sony switch to Intel's Larrabee chip
Here's the rumor of the weekend, if not the week: Sony will use Intel's Larrabee chip in its upcoming PlayStation 4.
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OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
Founder Nicholas Negroponte says the OLPC will open-source its hardware design and invite others to copy it, according to a report from the TED conference.
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Microsoft readying My Phone cloud service
Users of the expected Web-based offering would get 200MB of storage to use for backing up phone data and sharing photos.
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Italian soccer star to sue Facebook
Alessandro del Piero, a legend of Italian soccer, is threatening to sue Facebook because the site includes a fake profile linking him to Nazi propaganda.
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Police use Wii to create wanted poster
Instead of asking an artist to come up with a sketch of an alleged criminal's face, police in Japan created their own Mii on a Wii.
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Salesforce.com president Cakebread departs
The departure was for "personal reasons" and to allow Cakebread, who had been with the company since 2002, "to pursue other professional opportunities," Salesforce said.
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Facebook makes new push for more apps
The social-networking powerhouse launches a series of APIs in a bid to generate more apps and more sharing. Is it headed into Twitter territory?
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Intel solid-state drive price cuts enough?
Intel slashed solid-state drive prices but that doesn't mean consumers are going to run out and buy its drives.
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Energy Department's Chu prepares to spend
As stimulus package moves ahead, Energy Secretary Steven Chu intends to speed up process for giving DOE loans, which are vital to commercializing new energy technologies.
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Ubuntu desktop apparently scares Microsoft
Redmond wants to find someone to help it combat open-source competitors on the desktop--and Ubuntu is the likeliest target for a range of reasons.
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Congressman Twitters secret trip to Iraq
Rep. Peter Hoekstra tweets upon landing in Baghdad with a congressional delegation, and we wonder: is somebody available to revoke his BlackBerry privileges ?
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Reported Kindle 2 photos look like the real deal
Mobileread.com has posted images, the price, and release date of the Kindle 2, expected to be announced Monday. While we have no confirmation that the pix or info are bona fide, it sure looks that way.
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Taking another crack at Amazon's Kindle
Amazon.com has a big event planned for Monday, and the smart money is on the online retailer unveiling a new version of its Kindle e-book reader.
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Ballmer likens economy to depressions of 1837, 1873, and 1929
Microsoft CEO tells Democrats that economic conditions represent a "once in a lifetime" crisis caused by too much debt and a "fundamental economic reset" is necessary.
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Kaiser: Worker data breached, identity fraud reported
Health care provider Kaiser notifies its nearly 30,000 Northern California employees that data breach may have exposed their personal information.
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Twitterhawk: Clever Twitter marketing, or spam?
New service will send out auto-Twitters based on key words.
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Google knows where your eyeballs go
Google's watching what people are looking at when they search. Should you be scared? The company says it's helped make the Google home page work better.
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TED: Change the world with $100,000
At the TED conference, prizes are given to the founder of SETI, an ocean explorer for Google, and a classical-music trainer, to help them work on their big ideas.
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Some stations still plan early digital-TV transition
More than a quarter of TV stations in the U.S. could shut off their analog TV transmitters before the new June 12 deadline.
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Report: Pioneer to exit TV business
A report in a Japanese newspaper says the company will stop making televisions and spin off its DVD player business.
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Photos: Top five items ruined by Swarovski crystals
Only one thing looks worse than Winnie the Pooh having his face sandpapered off, and that's any gadget covered in Swarovski crystals. Here are a few of the worst offenders.
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'Twitter Effect': possibilities and limits
Tweeting and retweeting links to a Web site can mean a deluge of traffic. But there are limits to this "Twitter Effect."
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Waiting on Red Hat's response to Microsoft
Microsoft has a clear game plan for beating Red Hat and other Linux variants. And Red Hat? Well, it's still apparently pretending that Microsoft will go away.
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Time Warner Cable reports subscriber dip
The competition between cable an TV companies heats up as Time Warner sees slowing subscriber growth.
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Borrego Solar scores $14 million in funding
Just another deal, or a signal investors are running back to silicon for solar?
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Computer industry ranks third among job cuts
Job cuts continue to hit the computer industry, ranking it among the top five job-cutting industries in January, according to a new report.
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Green news harvest: Credit crisis slams wind, solar
The freeze in financing and tax-based incentives are hitting renewable energy project developers and manufacturers hard. The U.K., meanwhile, makes the case for biogas.
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IBM software scans for security holes in Flash, Ajax
IBM offers software that lets Web sites run frequent and automatic scans of their Flash and Ajax-based apps for security holes.
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Microsoft and EMC renew their vows
The first three years of formal partnership between the companies went so well, they've signed up for another stint focused more on storage and virtualized environments.
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Is Google's Eric Schmidt the next David Geffen?
Fans use Google's YouTube to legally share music. The Android phone is helping to sell tunes, and the search engine is still all-powerful. What does this mean for the music industry?
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Sun's missing mojo: MIA until when?
The CEO keeps painting a sunny picture. Then come more losses, layoffs, and letdowns.
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YouMail gets real with a BlackBerry app
The freemium visual voicemail provider YouMail fills in its biggest hole--viewing messages online, but not on the phone.
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Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends' locations
How far away from the restaurant is your ever-tardy husband? New Google mobile phone software lets you find out, as long as he's sharing.
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Judge postpones Rambus patent-infringement trials
Shares of the memory chipmaker plunge after a federal judge postpones indefinitely the long-running cases filed against a slew of memory makers.
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Exploding cell phone kills store employee
A man, thought to be a sales associate in a computer shop in Guangzhou, China, apparently has his neck artery severed by an exploding cell phone.
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Intel at chip conference: More cores, less power
Intel will have a lot to say at International Solid-State Circuits Conference, spanning the spectrum of silicon from mobile to server processors.
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Firefox 3.0.6 targets security issues
Mozilla developers say update to popular Web browser addresses several security and stability issues.
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SAP tries to make latest suite easier to digest
Software maker expected to announce the launch of Business Suite 7, according to a prebriefing with The Wall Street Journal.
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'Chuck' in 3D falls flat
Intended to promote 3D films soon available in theaters, the version many saw on their televisions Monday night didn't do the 3D movement any favors.
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Open-source database market shows muscles
EnterpriseDB and Ingres just reported banner years, suggesting that open source is thriving beyond MySQL in the database market.
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Images: Google Earth 5.0 travels oceans, time, and space
The newly updated version of Google's mapping service lets users foray underwater to the sea floor, as well as back in time through older aerial and satellite images.
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