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Hewlett Packard to buy 3Com for $2.7B

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:23:04 -0500

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co., looking to expand into a business long dominated by Cisco, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy networking software and equipment maker...

Microsoft inks deal with Wolfram/Alpha

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:08:39 -0500

Microsoft Corp. and Web search startup Wolfram/Alpha announced today that Microsoft's new Bing search engine will be one of the first customers for Wolfram/Alpha's...

Greater Boston Chamber touts Massachusetts' innovation

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:51:32 -0500

Massachusetts ranked first in the nation per capita for the number of patents produced by higher education institutions, according to a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce...

Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:18:19 -0500

Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting....

Palm's webOS hasn't gotten the attention it deserves

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:15:09 -0500

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news - Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the...

Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:05:16 -0500

NEW YORK - Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi...

Gamers line up for 'Modern Warfare 2'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:49:35 -0500

LOS ANGELES - Ryan Norwalk had cleared his schedule. The 26-year-old college student was spending Tuesday gunning down foes in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,"...

Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:21 -0500

NEW YORK - The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially stealing the e-mail addresses...

Google to buy mobile ad network for $750 million

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:43:32 -0500

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones and other mobile gadgets. It has agreed to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for...

Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:03 -0500

NEW YORK - The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers...

Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:24:21 -0500

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Video game publisher Electronic Arts says it has acquired Playfish, a privately held company that makes social network games, for $275 million in cash. Electronic...

MIT offers cash for top clean energy idea

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:14:52 -0500

Two weeks after President Barack Obama encouraged energy innovation in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school is offering cash for the most groundbreaking...

State receives money for broadband mapping

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:30 -0500

Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years. Gov....

MIT offers $200G prize for best clean-energy idea

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:48 -0500

Two weeks after President Barack Obama encouraged energy innovation in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school is offering cash for the most ground-breaking...

MSN Web portal gets facelift

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:20:59 -0500

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's...

Best Buy embraces digital delivery of home video

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:19:20 -0500

SAN FRANCISCO - Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet...

Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:18:37 -0500

NEW YORK - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to...

Review: Motorola's Droid is a serious smart phone

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:17:16 -0500

SAN FRANCISCO - Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of...