By JESSICA MINTZ
AP Technology Writer
SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft Corp. put a new edition of Windows on sale Thursday, hoping for a fresh start after a bad reception for the previous version of the software that runs most of the world’s personal computers.
Windows 7 is now available on new computers, and as a software upgrade for [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Oracle Corp. pounced on Sun Microsystems Inc. in a $7.4 billion deal Monday after rival IBM Corp. abandoned its bid
to buy Sun, a server and software maker that had a 27-year run as Silicon Valley’s brash independent.
Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle said it will pay $9.50 in cash for each Sun share. [...]
TSUKUBA, Japan – A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn’t even cleared safety standards to share the catwalk with human models.
Developers at the National Institute of Advanced [...]
By JESSICA MINTZ
AP Technology Writer
SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. plans a central market to sell programs for cell phones running the Windows Mobile system. It hews closely to the setup of Apple Inc.’s App Store for iPhones, with one notable exception – Microsoft promises to communicate more openly with outside software developers.
Apple started what has become [...]
By JAN M. OLSEN
Associated Press Writer
COPENHAGEN (AP) – Top climate scientists warned Tuesday that sea levels could rise twice as much as previously projected as they presented the latest research on global warming.
A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted a sea level rise of 7 to 23 inches (18 to 59 [...]
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Paul Twomey, chief executive of the Internet’s key oversight agency since 2003, will step down after a successor is named, The Associated Press has learned.
In a prepared statement, Twomey did not give a reason for departing, other than to say he wants to “move on to another [...]
By JORDAN ROBERTSON
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Hewlett-Packard Co.’s quarterly profit dropped 13 percent, and sales ticked up just 1 percent, as even the technology company’s cash-cow printer ink business was hobbled by the recession.
The world’s top seller of personal computers also cut its 2009 guidance, but it was still in line with Wall [...]
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Twitter Inc. has spawned a new way to communicate by limiting messages to 140 keystrokes. So here’s a way to describe the Internet’s latest craze within Twitter’s space restrictions:
It’s a potluck of pithy self-expression simmering with whimsy, narcissism, voyeurism, hucksterism, tedium and sometimes useful information.
One vital ingredient [...]
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen has sold off all of his remaining shares in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., according to a securities filing Friday, ending his involvement in a company he helped launch more than a decade ago.
The billionaire invested $500 million in DreamWorks SKG when it [...]
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) – Debris from this week’s satellite collision could circle Earth for up to 10,000 years, threatening many other satellites in an already-crowded area, Russia’s Mission Control chief said Friday.
Vladimir Solovyov said Tuesday’s smashup of a derelict Russian military satellite and a working U.S. Iridium commercial satellite occurred some 500 [...]
