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Google on Tuesday said it would use its software skills to help consumers track their home energy usage and thereby lower demand and the global warming emissions that come from producing electricity. The move is part of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) effort to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades and other […]

The head of the Mozilla Foundation, the open source group responsible for the Firefox browser, offered the organization’s help to the European Commission (EC) on Friday in its latest antitrust case against Microsoft. Reportedly, that outstretched hand has been accepted. If it seems like a familiar situation, it is. EC regulators informed Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]

Intel plans to invest $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States that make faster, smaller chips that consume less energy. The investment will fund deployment of Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) 32-nanometer manufacturing technology, the company said. The announcement comes less than a month after the world’s largest […]

Comcast recently launched a beta test of Wi-Fi at 100 New Jersey railroad station locations. Not unlike the program rolled out by competitor Cablevision in the tri-state area last fall, Comcast’s pilot program, which quietly went live earlier this month, is aimed at subscribers who commute. Currently the nation’s top cable provider, Comcast, which is […]

Online retailer Amazon.com unveiled the latest incarnation of its digital book reader, the Kindle, on Monday in a slimmer version with more storage and a feature that reads text aloud to users. The new Kindle, which will still sell for $359 on Amazon’s Web site, is available for preorder and will ship Feb. 24, the […]

Personal computer maker Lenovo Group posted its first loss in nearly three years and its CEO resigned, as weak demand and cutthroat competition slams earnings of technology companies. As part of a senior management reshuffle, China’s largest maker of personal computers said its three-year contract with CEO William Amelio had expired and he would will […]

The U.S. switch to digital television signals will be delayed four months until June under legislation that cleared Congress on Wednesday and now goes to President Obama for his signature into law. Obama supports the delay, sharing concerns that 20 million mostly poor, elderly and rural households were not ready for the congressionally mandated switch. […]

Cisco Systems posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings as the network equipment maker managed to contain costs, even as revenue fell for the first quarter in more than five years. Shares of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) rose nearly 2 percent in cautious trade ahead of the company’s earnings conference call, where CEO John Chambers is expected to outline […]

U.S. Internet search company Google released software on Wednesday that allows users of mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends. Users in 27 countries will be able to broadcast their location to others constantly, using Google Latitude. Controls allow users to select who receives the information or […]

NEW YORK — German technology giant SAP AG is unveiling the biggest upgrade to its business software line in almost three years today, hoping customers will upgrade their systems even as technology budgets shrink. Analysts say it will be tough for SAP’s new Business Suite 7 product line — which helps businesses manage areas including […]

A European Union law to reinforce freedom on the Internet would be unnecessary and put operators in a difficult position, the bloc’s top telecoms and media regulator said on Tuesday. The U.S. Congress has drafted a Global Online Freedom Act. Some European Parliament members want the EU to follow suit, saying authoritarian nations are increasingly […]

A co-author of a widely cited forecast that nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs would be created for every percentage point rise in high-speed Internet use said on Friday these and similar estimates are “a gross overestimate.” “There is a great deal of overstatement in most of these studies,” said Robert Crandall, a Brookings Institution economist and […]