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Launching a major revamp of its MyYahoo personalized start page, Yahoo has laid the foundation for building a social networking empire. With a more open platform and third-party apps on the way, Yahoo could both cement its lead in the start page space and give MySpace and Facebook reason to stay awake at night.
For good and bad -- or should I say light and dark -- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Wii is clearly a Wii game. Side-by-side with the PS3 and 360 versions, the Wii graphics disappoint, and the complexity and frequency of enemies feels scaled back.
Rafael Nadal cried in the locker-room after losing a superb five-set final to Roger Federer at Wimbledon last year, earning a rebuke from his uncle and coach, Toni, that no tennis match was important enough to warrant tears. Nadal cried again last night, but in the joy of an extraordinary victory at his third finals attempt, the claycourt master ha
In a delicately phrased communiqu�, the world’s richest countries pledged on Tuesday to press for a halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Solar power on a Prius? It sounds like a match made in eco-heaven. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to stick solar panels on some models of its popular Prius hybrid car, according to news reports Monday. The panels, made by Kyocera, would help power the air conditioner.
Summer may be a time for fireworks and barbecues in America, but halfway across the globe there's some serious bicycling underway. To celebrate the Tour de France as well as the recent inclusion of Street View in France proper, Google has created a custom Street View map for tracking the entire race route at eye level.
The process that began in the 1960s to transform America’s elementary, middle and high schools into places where students could literally graduate without being able to read their diploma, where the teaching of mathematics was reduced to mush without rules, and where it was more important for students to feel really good about themselves than ...
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has called on the Colombian Farc rebel movement to release all of its remaining hostages. His comments follow the rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others on Wednesday.
This phenomenon, where products and technologies start out in the hands of consumers before making their way into the enterprise, has recently accelerated to the point that it has gotten its own (somewhat unwieldy) buzzword: "IT consumerization."
Virginia Museum of Natural History scientists have confirmed that an approximately 500 million-year-old stromatolite was recently discovered at the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry near Roanoke, Virginia. This specimen is the first-ever intact stromatolite head found in Virginia, and is one of the largest complete “heads” in the world.
A State Department probe finds that in a sample of 150 famous Americans, most of their files had been viewed in the last six years; nine had been opened more than 100 times.
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy."
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