Delayed a day by stormy weather, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket boosted a new hurricane-tracking weather satellite into space Saturday.

Sony is reportedly looking into making a combination gadget that would meld its PlayStation Portable gaming system with cell phone technology from Sony Ericsson.

Apple's latest Mac Mini desktop uses parts designed for mobile PCs, according to iSuppli.

The Department of Justice wants more time to consider Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but Oracle is confident the deal will still go through without problem.

Bruce Manley, whose YouTube videos show him to be a basketball trick shot sensation, has reportedly accepted a Twittered H-O-R-S-E challenge from Shaq. They will, hopefully, face off in July.

A series of e-mail messages from the Environmental Protection Agency shows manager told a researcher his 98-page report on climate change would not be disseminated. The EPA says it acted properly.

CNET Reviews checks out the Asus Eee PC 1005HA laptop, the Canon FS200 camcorder, the Nokia N97 smartphone, and more.

Despite the common public belief that the famous facility has closed down, and that it is one and the same as NORAD, it is fully operational and packed with critical U.S. military and defense agencies.

It's on! In a new ad campaign, Sprint is pointing out not just that its plans are cheaper overall, but that its Palm Pre can do things Apple's first-gen iPhone can't.

A court denies IBM's request for an injunction against Dell's hire of its former acquisitions chief.

Keynote Systems says it may have given overly bleak assessment of how online news sites handled traffic following Michael Jackson's death.

Simple, elegant, and immensely useful, AutoCopy is one of the few extensions that I crave every time I open a browser that doesn't have it. Here's why.

Will people stop at nothing to capitalize online on the death of the pop star? Perhaps not, if eBay is any indication.

For about 25 minutes yesterday afternoon, Google News thought the flood of queries on "Michael Jackson" was some sort of malware attack.

CNET News' Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided, or is even that big of a problem.

Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites, and the increase in traffic affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

Be forwarned, Mike Elgan says. Google's giving away its Voice services to get your permission to read your voice-mails to sell contextual advertising, which Google will engage in on a massive scale.

Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) needs more time to examine Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems beyond an initial review period, Oracle said Friday.

A U.S. judge on Friday denied an IBM request that would have barred a former executive from working at Dell over concerns that he would misappropriate trade secrets.

On his recent getaway to Buenos Aires, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was taking a trip more and more U.S. businesses now make. But not for some sort of rendezvous.

Q&A: Som Mittol, president of India's Nasscom trade group, says proposed legislation filed in the U.S. Senate could force Indian outsourcers to move some of their U.S. operations offshore.

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" - The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats

The long-awaited Google Voice phone management service finally became available this week to a lucky few. Is it worth trying? Absolutely.

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INSTEC will provide black-box rating and policy administration software for commercial package policy, auto, product and professional liability.

Grid vendor Platform Computing introduced a private cloud offering this week. What does it take to migrate from a grid to cloud computing?

More students than ever are pursuing graduate education in science and engineering and those doing so represent a greater proportion of non-white ethnic groups and of women.

Teardown analysis from iSuppli shows that Apple managed to boost performance over previous generations of the device, without significantly increasing cost to itself.

Microsoft is offering deep discounts on its next operating system in effort to boost sales.

Google has started sending out invitations to use Google Voice, the company's online voice mail and communication management service.

Apple's new iPhone 3GS has boosted mobile video uploads on YouTube by 400% per day since it launched.

Just 1% of iPod Touch owners have downloaded and installed Apple's latest firmware, compared to 44% of iPhone owners.

Service-now.com's process management and application development tool provides "Swiss Army Knife"-like capabilities in support of the super-regional carrier's ITIL-based service management environment.

Stronger consumer PC shipments -- especially netbooks -- will revive the battered hardware sector, Gartner says.

The unlimited international calling plan is an aggressive move in the highly-competitive prepaid mobile market.

Twitter is this year's social networking phenom. Last year it was Facebook. Next year's is anyone's guess.

Google.com and Gmail were offline in China on Wednesday as Chinese authorities try to exercise more control over Internet content.

Offer comes under Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Option but does not extend to all HP systems.

The "Hottest Girls" app was apparently approved because the iPhone 3.0 software includes age-verification controls for the App Store.

AP - A former criminal law student has been sentenced to life in a California prison for killing one man and wounding two others in a dispute over a Sony PlayStation console.

AP - Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, Painter is now backing an idea that makes it easier for insiders like him to sell shares in their companies even before they go public.

AP - Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.

AP - Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter.

AP - "Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died," the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response. But nearly every passenger reached for a BlackBerry, a cell phone, whatever device was at hand.

AP - Michael Jackson's death has led to skyrocketing sales of his music and videos, with major retailers selling out of products that have regained immense popularity overnight.

PC World - Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

PC World - We've heard reports of so-called pico projectors coming as a direct complement for mobile phones for more than a year now, first in demos at CES 2008, and later in the form of the Optoma Pico Project Projector.

Reuters - Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.

AP - The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their "Thriller" dance swayed and stomped again Saturday in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson.

PC World - An undisclosed source has apparently told VG247 that Sony's PlayStation 3 is in for a radical interface overhaul in an upcoming pre-holiday firmware update. PS3 Firmware 3.0 (v2.8 was just released--see pic above) will be "a completely new system," writes the site, citing its source as calling the update "a huge overhaul," comparable to Microsoft's New Xbox Experience "in some respects."

PC World - Is the Apple iPhone 3GS having overheating issues? I've seen some reports circulating on the Web today that indicate some handsets might indeed be affected. And I have my own tale to add to fray.

AFP - Software developed by a Canadian lab to circumvent online censorship has been downloaded by more than 18,000 Iranians in the last 10 days, says its developer Rafal Rohozinski.

AP - The Department of Justice wants more information about Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., extending the agency's review of the $7.4 billion deal.

PC World - Less than 24 hours after Michael Jackson's death, fraudsters are exploiting public interest with their attempts to spread spam and malware. Security researchers say they've observed hundreds of cases of malicious messages masquerading as information about Jackson's death. Some of them, they say, popped up within minutes of the news.