Hey, whatever happened to your old television? Onsite research from Greenpeace International reveals high toxin levels at ewaste "recycling" centers in southern China and India.
Google says is wants to offer 14.76 million new shares of stock, which would be worth over $4 billion at Wednesday's closing price. But how does Google plan to spend that money?
Nokia says there's no deal to include the popular iTunes Music Store in its forthcoming N91 multimedia phone, but third-party developers could put the two together.
Broadband users want data fast, but don't really care about keeping it: The Diffusion Group finds less than half back up their home data more than a couple times a year.
The American Consumer Satisfaction Index finds that Dell's once-lauded customer service has declined to match the industry average, while Apple's support stands out.
Nintendo announced that as of August 21, it's dropping the U.S. price of the portable Nintendo DS video game device about 13 percent, from $150 to about $130.
Number three computer maker Gateway posted a $17.2 million profit for its second quarter of 2005, but sent shares tumbling by cutting revenue estimates for the year.
Strategy Analytics reports that Apple's iPod blows away music-enabled mobile challengers, handily beating them in both usability and perceived sound quality.
Norway's Opera Software has announced Opera Mini, a lightweight Java program which it claims can bring Web surfing to more than 700 million low-to-medium cost cell phones.
Shortly after proof-of-concept viruses appear for Microsoft's much-touted Monad Shell command-line and scripting tool, Microsoft pulls it from Windows Vista.
The Federal Communications Commission eases requirements on phone companies offering DSL, letting them compete better with cable while squeezing indepedent ISPs.
Advertising.com used to give away an anti-spyware program which (clever clever!) installed adware. Now the AOL subsidiary has settled with the FTC and promises to play nice.
The Mozilla Foundation has released a previous of Minimo, a Web browser for Windows CE mobile phones which uses the same technology as the Firefox Web browser.
A new NPD Group survey finds retail sales of video games in the U.S. increased 21 percent during the first six months of 2005, as surging popularity of handheld games offset declini
Yahoo has announced its acquisition of Pixoria, Inc. and its Widget-making software Konfabulator, as a technology to enable unique tools built on Yahoo's XML content.
Sony Corporation announced it will release a free version 2 firmware upgrade for PSP in Japan next week which will let the portable gaming units surf the Web.
The Federal government has accused seven U.S. companies of hiring others to send email which illegally used pornographic messages to promote adult Web sites.