LATEST TECHNOLOGY NEWS

• McAfee seeks gag on exec ousted over options

  13 hours, 30 minutes ago

  Former McAfee President Kevin Weiss wants to clear his name after being awarded damages over his firing, but McAfee wants the information to remain confidential.

• Yahoo wins appeal of music-streaming case

  13 hours, 6 minutes ago

  Yahoo's music services are not interactive enough to require it to pay the rights holders of songs additional royalty fees, a three-judge panel ruled in upholding an earlier verdict.

• Pirate Bay acquisition appears to be unraveling

  20 hours, 1 minute ago

  Financial questions about the company bidding for the BitTorrent tracker, as well as its CEO, cast doubt on whether a revamped Pirate Bay will launch anytime soon.

• Microsoft pulling Live Framework test bits

  15 hours, 58 minutes ago

  Introduced at last fall's developer conference, Live Framework, which is essentially the developer side of Live Mesh, is being folded into Windows Live.

• Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha

  18 hours, 39 minutes ago

  Microsoft's search engine has reached a deal to display Wolfram content in Bing search results, but the details are still unclear.

• Verizon turning cell phones into TV remotes

  18 hours, 51 minutes ago

  Carrier is reportedly about to launch a new application that allows its Fios TV customers to interact with their sets using their Verizon Wireless phones.

• Corporate BlackBerrys to get Google Apps syncing

  15 hours, 39 minutes ago

  If you've got a company-issued BlackBerry and your company subscribes to Google Apps, you could soon receive push e-mail and find global contacts on your phone.

• The real Facebook-Twitter turf war: Marketers

  20 hours, 38 minutes ago

  Facebook has finally launched a feature to syndicate profile updates through Twitter, but it's only for its brand-based "fan pages." What gives?
  • Facebook disables 6 phishing apps, but 5 more appear

• The shrinking game console: A history

  August 21, 2009 4:30 PM PST

  Every few years video game consoles get smaller and more advanced. We track some of the more notable shrinkage in the last 20 years.

• Survey: Linux users love Google, ignore Bing

  20 hours, 43 minutes ago

  The open-source crowd prides itself on diversity, but Linux "desktop" users' search behavior reveals anything but diversity.

• Twitter pro accounts coming by year's end

  21 hours, 45 minutes ago

  Will Twitter actually make money? Yes, it appears, if businesses are willing to pay up for pro accounts with souped-up data.
  • Twitter API getting location data
  • Not so fast, Twitter: 'Tweet' isn't yours

• Week in review: Gaming gets small

  19 hours, 51 minutes ago

  Sony takes the wraps off its new PS3 Slim game console, which is smaller, lighter, and cheaper. Also: Microsoft and Facebook on the court docket.

• New LED tech promises more flexible displays

  20 hours, 2 minutes ago

  Process for creating ultrathin LEDs could result in cheaper, better, more flexible displays for everything from windows to TVs to wearable health monitors.