Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened.

NASA looks to advanced design concepts to reduce noise and increase the fuel efficiency of future aircraft.

Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell.

In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.

Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.

How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?

No, they won't, like Tom Brady, be viewing an illegal streaming site. Instead, Coke is using social media and the Web in order to have its polar bears react to the game as it's in progress.

You'll be drooling over the nonstop concept displays and projections in this video by the famous glassmaker.

In its Super Bowl spot, Doritos introduces Suzie, a cell phone personal helper with something of a temper.

The big Apple launch event was made for Steve Jobs. But now that he's not around, should Apple think of a different, more modern way of launching its products?

Silicon Valley startup Saygent crunches survey data and finds that picks for the big game may differ by political affiliation.

In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale.

CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy looks at Sony's Playstation Vita through Apple goggles.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the 2011 winners of a contest to create the best visualizations in the fields of science and engineering.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.

EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance.

Memory company Micron Technology has appointed Mark Durcan as its new CEO, quickly replacing the former CEO Steve Appleton who died in a plane crash on Friday.

EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology.

The Super Bowl has always been a social event. What's different now is that social media and the Internet have turned geography and proximity into nonfactors.

Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips.

A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.

The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.

Zoho Writer is an online (with offline and syncing functionality) word processing application that offers a nice amount of functionality, especially given the limitations of the Web as a platform for productivity tools. After creating a free account with Zoho, you can access Zoho Writer. It looks a lot like most word processors, so if you've used any major program in this category, it will take no more than a few minutes of poking around to learn how to do things. This is good, because the "Help" is in the form of a FAQ, not a tutorial or index of functions.

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterprise healthcare applications and can raise IT support costs.

FBI confirms legitimacy of 16-minute call, posted by hacktivists, that discussed sentencing and future arrests of LulzSec and Anonymous participants.

Major versions of a major program used to be a major event. Thanks to Google and Mozilla they are downright commonplace, but still as disruptive as ever.

RIM hopes new government security certifications and a device management platform will bolster the platform's position against iOS, Android.

SimView captures video, audio, data logs, and simulated patient responses for live observation or retroactive review of medical simulations.

IT leaders are funny--even when they don't mean to be.

IT is a service business, where nice guys often finish first. But you'd better be effective too, because scorched-earth leaders are just waiting to pounce.

Take a tour through the latest iteration of the enterprise social platform the Obama campaign used to track, share data on its outreach efforts.

Brainshark rolls out SlideShark Team Edition, bringing PowerPoint compatibility to the Apple tablet on an enterprise scale.

Update also fixes several bugs that affect proxy settings and call duration display.

Microsoft cosponsors algorithm contest with $200,000 pot to spur development of gesture-based games and other apps.

From the Super Bowl to the World Cup, sports fans are being watched in new ways. Consider these technologies changing sports security.

In a cloud computing legal battle, Google sides with ReDigi instead of Capitol Records, but court rebuffs its attempt to file a 'friend-of-the-court' brief.

Companies must get on the social business bandwagon or risk falling behind, says Jive Software chief Tony Zingale.

AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.

AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.

AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.

Yahoo! News - The new  mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you  hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …

Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for  Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and  shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating  NFL copyrights. …

Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?

Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.

AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.

ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.

Appolicious - The free Evi app for Android eluded me for days while I was testing it out. Every time I tried to search using the app, it told me all circuits were busy. But the super friendly voice assured me that they were working to correct the issue in the near future. In this day and age, a few days are a lifetime.

Reuters - Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.

Appolicious - Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs.

Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future.

AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.