(Credit: ComScore)Google gained share of U.S. search in April compared with rivals, ComScore said Wednesday.
Compared with March, the company gained 1.8 percentage points to reach 61.6 percent share, ComScore said. Yahoo dropped 0.9 percentage points to 20.4 percent, Microsoft dropped 0.3 to …
The A160T Hummingbird comes in for a landing May 9 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after a high-altitude hovering demonstration.
(Credit: Boeing)
A disparate pair of aviation R&D projects at Boeing have hit milestones recently.
The A160T Hummingbird, a helicopter-style unmanned aerial vehicle, …
Five years from now, with Apple aiming to become the center of the digital home, users may expect to see a number of key products and services designed to connect PCs and digital content to HDTV stereo audiovisual networks, according to “The Future of Apple” report, released by Forrester Research …
Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios has launched a download service with high-end British speaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins.
The downloads are all recorded here, live.
(Credit: Real World)
It’s called the B&W Music Club, and it offers exclusive monthly albums to members, recorded at Gabriel’s …
SRI International has announced the development of a wall-climbing robot that uses a new electrical adhesive technology called “compliant electroadhesion” that can stick to anything from brick to glass–even damp, dirty glass.
(Credit: SRI International)Electroadhesion, or electrically controlled electrostatic attraction, is an electrically controlled adhesion technology that induces an …
A new plan by Microsoft to allow its Office software to save and edit files in a rival format will face a probe by the European Commission.
The Commission said late Wednesday that it will investigate whether Microsoft’s decision to add support for the Open Document Format to Office …
Users of Windows Vista Media Centers who were blocked from recording two NBC shows last week are eager to learn why Microsoft is taking marching orders from broadcasters.
EFF's Danny O'Brien says digital-TV viewers must not lose the rights they owned as analog users.
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Perhaps you heard Wednesday’s news about the price of crude oil once again reaching all-time highs, and, like me, you’re wondering how …
PC maker Lenovo turned in a strong financial performance for its fourth fiscal quarter, with revenue, profits, and PC shipments all seeing notable jumps.
For the quarter that ended March 31, Lenovo said that profits attributable to shareholders grew 133 percent to $140 million from the same period a year …
I can’t say for certain that ISPs, online advertising networks, and other big Web companies are already tracking our Web use and sending us ads and other information based on conclusions they draw from our unique browsing history.
But it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they were. …