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Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for what the committee described as "groundbreaking experiments" on graphene A sheet of graphene is just one atom thick, works as a superb conductor of electricity and heat, is almost transparent, but is so den...

Twitter Cofounder Evan Williams has stepped aside as CEO and placed Dick Costolo, the man he hired as chief operating officer, in charge of the company as it works to build its business model "I am most satisfied while pushing product direction," Williams wrote in a blog post announcing his decision. "Building things is my passion, and I've never b...

With the launch of the new Windows Phone 7 operating system and the devices that run it less than a week away, another mobile carrier has been added to the mix. It has been known for some time that AT&T will carry WinPho7 devices at its Oct. 11 launch. Now it appears that T-Mobile also will announce a device -- made by HTC -- that runs the new pla...

E-commerce security has never been more top-of-mind for retailers. Security breaches like the one that happened at TJX in 2007 reverberate not only through the media, but also -- more importantly -- through consumer confidence, for years. Even with an aggressive clean-up strategy, an attack can create lasting damage to a retail brand from which sales may never recover...

For years, Verizon Wireless has fielded complaints from customersabout mistaken data charges This Sunday, the carrier announced it was providing a rebate totalingUS$90 million to be distributed to the estimated 15 million customers hit by thesecharges. Most of the customers reportedly were clipped for $2 to$6, which will be credited to their bills...

The smartphone industry has caught the sue-me, sue-you flu. Microsoft on Friday filed a patent infringement suit against Motorola related to Android technology. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, and also filed with the International Trade Commission Microsoft claims Motorola has infringed on nine Microsoft patents with i...

Web 2.0 (everyone's favorite 2007 buzz word) heralded the age of social networks and powered a fundamental shift in the Web: filtering out excessive noise while building connections to friends, organizations and communities. Creating a Facebook profile (and later a Twitter handle) became a way of passage to keep up with friends and connections, monitor social trends and follow topics of personal interest...

Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional (3D) images without the need for glasses ...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button....

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button....

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button....

Microsoft has taken Windows Live Essentials 2011 out of beta, and the online suite is now available for download The suite works only on Windows 7 and Vista; it is not available on Windows XP....

So, you're an entrepreneur with a great idea? Too bad your inspiration arrived in the worst economy since the Great Depression, complete with a meltdown of the venture capital industry. ...

Sales Simplicity Software, a sales automation, CRM and e-marketingapplication for the builder, developer and senior-living industries,discovered an untapped need among its customers when it rolled out thefirst mobile version of its application about a year ago The way the new home sales process works is that builders show prospective plans to custo...

The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly that. Given how aggressively Bradley was workin...

In a set of coordinated investigations, federal, state and local officials filed charges this week against more than 70 defendants who allegedly used cybercrime techniques to defraud both individuals and corporations out of millions of dollars. New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the indictment of 36 people in Manhattan alone. This is in addition to the 37 defendants charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York...

The Indian government has been unable to intercept communications carried over BlackBerry devices despite an interim agreement on data sharing that kept Research In Motion's service alive after a threatened August outage, according to a report published Friday in the Economic Times, an Indian news site The development threatens to once again shut d...

Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced "weppy") reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims Images make up 65 percent of the bytes transmitted per Web page, according to Google.

HP announced on Thursday that it has appointed former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker its new president and CEO The company also named Ray Lane, managing partner at venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as a new member of its board of directors and named him non-executive chairperson....

In the past few months, Research In Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry, has been under pressure by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, and other countries to provide greater access to the encrypted information sent by its devices. Each country threatened to ban BlackBerry services unless RIM agreed to grant it greater access to monitor such communications...