Grim Outlook for U.S. IT Spending. U.S. companies are reining in IT spending as the economy continues to show weakness, a new survey has found.

Airports Back to Usual After Computer Glitch. Glitch delayed hundreds of flights yesterday.

Slideshow: Behind the scenes at the Intel Developer Forum. Suri Medapati, (shown) chief architect of Intel's Canmore processor, was one of the stars at the chip maker's recent developer forum.

Dead Sea Scrolls to be Displayed on Internet. Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said.

Why You Should Go with Your Gut Feeling

Arctic Sea Ice Melts to Second-lowest Level on Record

Compressed-air Storage Coming to Wind Power

HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War. Acer slashes prices on its Aspire one netbooks to as low as $329, while HP reveals new prices for Mini-Notes

IBM Demos Light-emitting Nanotube. Researchers at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center say they have brought silicon photonics one step closer to reality.

Gartner: Server Market Still Healthy Overall in Q2. Dell and IBM renew their server efforts, while Sun struggles and HP hums right along.

Adtran Brings Gigabit to Desktop, Higher Density with New Switches. Adtran released six new switches in its NetVanta portfolio, adding Gigabit Ethernet and a 48-port switch to deliver higher port density.

Apple Quadruples Share in Business Market. Virtualization, 'tech populism' lead way to a 4.5% market share in business

New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth

An Open Source Approach to Tracking Stolen Laptops. A project being run out of the University of Washington is aimed at providing a method for locating stolen computers that offers privacy.

Broadcom Buys AMD's DTV Chip Unit. Broadcom has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AMD's digital TV (DTV) chip business for approximately $192.8 million in cash.

Gartner Sees Chip Industry Slowing. Slower consumer spending on electronics will slow semiconductor market growth this year, a Gartner analyst said Monday.

Hacker Calls Buddies Overseas on US Government Dime. Someone hacked into a US Homeland Security Department phone system and made 400 calls to the Middle East and Asia, racking up $12000 in long-distance charges.

Two New, Popular Malware Attacks. Attacks that prey on users' fears of malware and exploit our fondness for moving images are strong candidates for break-out status.

Business PC Buyers Pick Windows XP Over Vista. Businesses prefer the tried, tested and true.

Back-to-School Spending Slows as Shoppers Seek Bargains Online. 38% of consumers surveyed said they plan to use price-comparison Web sites to find the best deals.

Microsoft Admits Posting Flawed Update. Wrong bits posted to Download Center for last week's PowerPoint patches.

Is Generation Y Going Deaf? With in-ear headphones cranked to "11," members of the younger generation are doing irreparable harm to their hearing.

Intel Plugs x86 into TVs. Chip shows x86 giant's growth as an SoC designer.

Comcast to Slow-down Heaviest 'Net Users to DSL Speeds. The FCC yesterday issued its Order officially directing Comcast to stop using its current P2P-focused delaying technology to relieve network congestion.

American Airlines Launches In-Flight Internet Service. Fliers will be able to connect to the Web, e-mail and corporate VPNs once they reach 10000 feet.

Is Apple's iPhone Fix Enough? Apple says an update addresses connectivity problems with the iPhone's 3G performance. iPhone 3G Owner Sues Apple Over Dropped Calls, Slow Speeds.

The Internet Radio Death Watch. With royalty fees sucking up profits, who knows how long sites like Pandora Radio and Slacker will last.

Move Over Quad-Cores, Intel's Ready to Ship 6-Core Chips. The quad-core chips that have sat at the top of the microprocessor heap for two years are about to begin to be replaced.

Drilling for Hot Rocks: Google Sinks Cash into Advanced Geothermal Technology. More than 2,000 times the entire annual energy consumption of the U.S. is available deep underground

Microorganisms that Convert Hydrocarbons to Natural Gas Isolated

Apple Updates iPhone Software to Fix Glitches. Apple has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints.

HP Posts Strong Profit. The high-tech hardware and consulting company posted net income of $2 billion.

PCI Standard Widened for Better Security. Laptops, iPods and better wireless encryption.

EBay Slashes Fees on Some Listings

A Better Way to Make Hydrogen from Biofuels

Greenland Ice Core Reveals History of Pollution In the Arctic

What Recession? Gartner predicts IT spending growth
should rise 8 percent worldwide in 2008 to $3.4 trillion.

Serial ATA Doubles Data Rate to 6 Gbits/s. Link expanding from hard disks to optical and flash drives.

IBM Helps Build Smallest SRAM Chips. IBM says that it’s joined partner companies to create world’s first reported working static random access memory for the 22 nanometer technology node.

Toward Plastic Spin Transistors: Ultrafast Computers And Electronics On The Horizon?

Blood Still Carries Protection Against Killer 1918 Flu

IT Managers Choose SSDs Over Hard Disks. IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid-state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives), and they help reduce the electric bill.

Intel Drives Quarterly PC Processor Growth. X86 giant gains a market share point against AMD.

Ads, Coming Soon to a Phone Near You. Through ties to your GPS and smartphone, the mobile advertising platform is getting ready to explode.

Netflix: DVD Shipments Resume After 3-day Glitch. Netflix said today that unspecified problems that delayed the shipment of millions of DVDs to customers this week have been fixed.

Electric Bikes Selling Briskly as Gas Prices Climb

Intel USB 3.0 Update Resolves Dispute. Rival chipmakers AMD and Nvidia step back from a threat to go their own way. The high-speed spec, due in 2009, is now 90 percent complete.

Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable, Appeals Court Rules. The federal appeals court said open source users that do not comply with the software's strict licensing terms can be sued for copyright infringement -- even if the software is free.

Dutch Police, FBI Rein-in Large Botnet. The botnet created by a teenager who was arrested by Dutch police in a sting operation is most notable for its total reliance on social engineering to spread.

Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara

Microsoft Issues Massive Security Update for Windows, Office. Microsoft released its largest security update in 18 months to patch 26 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer (IE), Windows Messenger and other software.

Dell Unveils 19-hour Latitude Laptop. Dell announced a series of Latitude laptops, including its lightest ultramobile commercial laptop yet and a larger system that the company claimed provides 19 hours of battery life.

Best Buy Set to Sell Apple iPhone Starting in September. Best Buy next month will begin to sell the 3G iPhone in a major expansion of Apple's channel strategy.

Hybrid Makeovers Help Owners Dump the Pump

Analyst: Infineon Chipset Possible Cause of iPhone 3G Issues. The reception issues experienced by some iPhone 3G users might be the fault of an "immature" Infineon chipset that has trouble with weaker signals.

Why Intel's Nehalem Is Important. Everybody's all atwitter about Intel's branding move, which will see its new Nehalem -- that's the code name --- desktop processors hit the market with a "Core i7" identifier.

AMD Targets Nvidia with Dual-GPU Graphics Card. AMD has introduced a dual-chip graphics card that it claims uses less energy to provide more performance than comparable cards from rival Nvidia.

Apple's MobileMe Mail, Google's Gmail Go Dark. Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail online e-mail services suffered hours-long outages Monday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts.

Lenovo Launches Quad Core Notebook PC. The ThinkPad W700 will be available early next month, with a 2 to 3 week ship time indicated on Lenovo's Web site.

Antennas Give Me a Headache. Small antennas contradict my intuition: they usually (or sometimes) work, but should they?

Space Shuttle Successor Will Not Fly Before 2014: NASA

iPhone 3G Travails: Network, Interrupted. Users of Apple's marquee gadget say they're having trouble getting, and staying, connected to the 3G networks in their areas.

Steve Jobs Confirms Apple Can Kill Apps On iPhones. The Apple CEO says it would be irresponsible not to be able to deactivate a malicious program sold through its App Store.

Flying High With Best Buy. Want to keep the kids quiet on that 5-hour plane ride? Now you can buy portable gaming devices and other electronic goodies from Best Buy kiosks at 12 airports around the country.

Gartner Sees 'Widespread Slowdown' Coming in Electronics Sector

Metamaterials Hold Promise for Invisibility Cloaks. Researchers used 3-D metamaterials, or composites with the ability to bend electromagnetic waves, to negatively refract light.

Perseid Meteor Shower Set to Dazzle

IT and Media Cut 13,000 Jobs In July. It was the biggest one-month decline in more than year, as publishing houses and tech firms implemented cutbacks driven by declining ad revenues, industry consolidation, and offshoring.

Son of Flubber? Material bends, stretches, conducts electricity
In the latest twist on electronics.

Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains

Tech Industry's Financial Results Show Sky Isn't Falling. An analysis of second-quarter results for Cisco, SAP, IBM and others shows that businesses are still spending on IT despite the poor economy.

Looking Inside the Storm Worm Botnet. Storm remains amazingly resilient in part because the Trojan horse it uses to infect systems changes its packing code every 10 minutes.

Fuel Cell Advance Could Lower Cost, Boost Efficiency

Cement from CO2: A Concrete Cure for Global Warming?

Stretchable Silicon Camera Next Step to Artificial Retina

11 Charged with Massive ID Theft. 41 million credit card numbers allegedly stolen in global ring.

Hackers Create Fake Sites Through Internet Flaw. Giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control.

AMD Ships New 'Performance' Gaming Chip. Chip allows gamers to safely run Phenom-processor-based systems at speeds of more than 3.0GHz using a technology AMD calls "Advanced Clock Calibration."

Mozilla's New Aurora Browser: The Web Of The Future. The mad scientists at Mozilla went back into the lab after releasing Firefox 3 and have cooked up something that may be even more impressive, the new Aurora concept browser.

GPS Cellphones to Unleash Gamers onto the Streets. Location-aware cellphones are becoming ubiquitous, heralding a tipping point for "pervasive" gaming where players head into the real world.

Memory Module Makers See Strong July Sales

Micron Preps 256GB Solid-state Drive. Memory chip maker announces it will ship a series of solid-state drives ranging up to 256GB in capacity next quarter.

Delta to Offer Wi-Fi on All Its U.S. Planes. Delta Air Lines said it will start offering Wi-Fi services on its planes in the fall and equip its entire U.S. fleet of about 330 airplanes with the technology by next summer.

Apple Updates iPhone OS: Thwarts Hackers, Fixes Flaws

Cheaper 'Supermagnets' Could Drive Future Hybrid Cars

Numbers Adding-up for 64-bit Windows. After years of predictions and false starts, and millions in R&D, the high-end version of Windows is finally starting to take off.

Apple DNS Security Patch Flawed, Leaves Users at Risk. Apple's latest software update was meant to protect users from a DNS security flaw, but researchers say users are still at risk.

Intel Releases Details of Upcoming Graphics Chip. The first Larrabee chips will be add-on graphic accelerators in PCs used mostly by gamers.

Apple Increasing iPhone 3G Production. Foxconn, which actually makes the iPhone 3G, has been asked by Apple to boost production.

10 Weather-Tracking Gadgets and Sites. Whether you're an amateur or expert, these forecasters and trackers—from a lightning detector to a wireless rain gauge—will keep you ahead of the weather.

Falcon 1 Rocket Fails to Reach Orbit. SpaceX, a leading player in the private spaceflight industry, loses its third rocket, but vows to plough on.

Giant Grass Miscanthus Can Meet US Biofuels Goal Using Less Land than Corn or Switchgrass

U.S. Agents Can Seize Travelers' Notebook PCs. New Department of Homeland Security policies clear federal agents to hold travelers' laptops without suspicion of wrongdoing, according to a report.

Apple Finally Issues Fix For Critical DNS Security Flaw. Apple finally caught up with its peers by issuing a software update to address a dangerous DNS flaw disclosed earlier this month.

Toyota Tests Segway-like Stand-Up-and-Ride Machine. Toyota has developed a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway lookalike designed to help people scoot around at malls and airports.

Mars Probe Finds Water

U.S. is Top Producer of Wind Power