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Intel Corp. has acquired Opened Hand, a London-based company which specializes in mobile Linux development and services.

Alaska is no high-tech haven, so it's understandable that Gov. Sarah Palin is a little-known quantity when it comes to tech policy and renewable energy.

This guest post is from Marc Weber Tobias, an attorney and physical security specialist.

Google has made several software developers a little richer this week, distributing $3.75 million in prizes for 20 applications designed for its Android mobile phone operating system.

Update at 5:58 a.m. PDT: Ciao is based in Munich, Germany. Greenfield Online is based in Wilton, Conn.

Tim Roberts' black Audi A3 has something called green bandana funk.

Let's hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim "If you build it, they will come" simply does not apply to a social network.

Mac clone maker Psystar officially responded to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit on Thursday by filing a countersuit that alleges anticompetitive business practices.

DENVER--Delegates squeezing into the stadium hosting the Democratic convention on Thursday are being asked to do what must be a political party first: show their support for their party's nominee through text messages.

One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, readers have contacted CNET News with warnings about its installation and sites and services that are incompatible. While such behavior is expected of beta software, some problems appear to exist within Microsoft services themselves.

It sounded like a great idea at the time: Barack Obama announced that he'd announce his veep selection through text messaging.

This post was updated at 3:50 p.m. PDT with comments from Michael Dell and analysts.

DENVER--Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on Thursday that the Internet gave presidential candidate Barack Obama the ability to bypass traditional media and claim the Democratic nomination.

An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.

Rumors of Apple working on a touch-screen Mac have been circulating for years, and will only grow with the revelation that the company is hoping to patent similar technology.

DENVER--Political conventions nowadays are as much about capitalism as they are about politics.

When Barack Obama announced he was going to release the name of his vice presidential pick via text message, he affirmed that this method of communication is no longer relegated to teenagers, but has penetrated the mainstream. According to Nielsen research, 2.9 million people received the text, even though the mainstream media announced Joe Biden's name well before it was even sent.

In the wake of a computer failure that caused delays for 646 U.S. flights on Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to upgrade its decades-old technology for flight-plan processing and potentially add a third backup system.

Oracle named Jeffrey Epstein as its new chief financial officer on Wednesday, marking its fourth CFO since its long-time bean counter Jeff Henley retired from that post four years ago.

The first ever reported computer virus has infected at least two laptops onboard the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth.

The first ever reported computer virus has infected at least two laptops on board the International Space Station more than 200 miles above earth.

French owners of the iPhone 3G are irate over Orange's practice of capping their 3G download speeds at a rate far slower than what their neighbors can access, but are in for a speed boost.

It looks like wiser heads--or at least those who could be made to recognize a great PR opportunity--have prevailed at AMC.

SAO PAULO, Brazil--Brazilian journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein walks down an alley in the Villa Madelena neighborhood showing how what was once a haven for drug dealers has been transformed into a canvas for artists.

In 2006, Wired magazine reporter Jeff Howe published a story about a phenomenon he'd been following in which the power of large numbers of people was being harnessed to make things happen that hadn't been possible before outside the auspices of corporations or other big institutions.

SAN FRANCISCO--Standing 52 stories in the air at the upscale Carnelian Room in the Bank of America building here, executives from Dell, Facebook, and Salesforce.com discussed the meaning and use of the latest technology buzzword, cloud computing.

The guys who created Lonelygirl15--the scripted Web series that fooled many viewers into thinking it was the real video diary of a cute 16-year-old girl--are back with a new project.

The recording industry appears to have won a closely watched copyright infringement case over charges of evidence tampering.