Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.

Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.

RealNetworks Inc. and MTV Networks said Tuesday that they plan to spin off Rhapsody America LLC, their digital music service joint venture, into an independent company.

As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.

Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.

The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.

Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.

A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.

Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.

The new service, called Google Buzz, allows Gmail users to share updates, photos and videos as on Facebook and other social networking sites.

The online program, called Upliv, offers stress analysis, weekly sessions that teach relaxation strategies and toiletries with scents.

Commercial real estate is experiencing a boom in data center construction, especially in New Jersey, because of proximity to New York’s financial companies.

Nicholas Felton started collecting data about himself in 2005 to create an annual report about his life. Five years later, the project continues and now includes a service to help others quantify ther lives, too.

Canon improves the features of its starter D.S.L.R. cameras with the new EOS Rebel T2i, and adds four new PowerShot point-and-shoot models to its lineup.

A new social-network aggregator, Google Buzz, begins its rollout this week.

Commercial real estate is experiencing a boom in data center construction, especially in New Jersey, thanks to its proximity to New York’s financial companies.

After mounting complaints about the lack of customer support for the Nexus One, Google is offering a phone hotline.

Google's Buzz service, which ties into Gmail, is another way for people to tell others what they're doing, thinking and feeling.

Reports are that the Korean brand will bring devices with AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) displays to market in the next year.

One of the world's largest flash memory makers agrees to be acquired by Micron Technology in a deal worth approximately $1.27 billion.

Is Google Buzz effective competition to Twitter? Or is it just FriendFeed light? Webware writers Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn debate.

The number of visitors to Warner Music Group's YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. Those numbers are now being questioned.

The number of visitors to Warner Music Group's YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. Those numbers are now being questioned.

CNET's Josh Lowensohn takes you through some of the main features of Google's new social publishing tool Buzz, which is being made available to all Gmail users this week.

University of Arizona engineering student creates a six-legged Atom-powered bot that can "learn" to walk on its own, and Intel brings it along on the company road show.

Software giant is researching how gadgets like the Xbox and technologies like accelerometers in cell phones could improve personal health, and health care in general.

KeyLemon adds an extra layer of security to your computer login process by making your webcam do all the heavy lifting.

McAfee spent three years researching and developing a new vertical interface, and the company has made their consumer security suites far better in the process. Watch a tour of what's new in this Firt Look video.

Real and Viacom say the subscription music service will be more nimble as a standalone company. The move means that Real is satisfied to give up control.

A famous and powerful planner butts heads with an Indian tribe over land rights near Niagara Falls. Guess who wins.

Bedfellows were never more strange than those assembling this week in Long Beach, California, for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference: Director James Cameron, Microsoft funder Bill Gates and former covert CIA analyst Valerie Plame are among the eclectic mix of speakers.

To turn Benicio Del Toro into a werewolf for the remake of The Wolfman, Rick Baker integrated his handcrafted artistry with the latest digital effects.

Equipped with sensitive receivers and powerful nav apps, location-aware smartphones are now leading the way over standalone GPS units. Wired editors have picked the Motorola Droid, with its simple, ituitive app, as their fave.

Federal authorities bust a Las Vegas man accused of running a so-called "cookie-stuffing" operation. The scam included hawking website code to trick eBay into paying website owners tens of thousands f dollars in bogus advertising referral fees.

Photographers are offering to teach amateurs the art of documentary photography in Haiti ... for a price. Is this profiting off the misery of others, or a valuable service?

A federal appeals court reverses a judge's order that the government disclose government e-mail connected to legislation that shut down lawsuits against the nation's telcos. The suits accused telcos f forwarding Americans' electronic communications to the NSA without warrants.

Online services for photos, videos, e-mail, books and music too often skimp on a key feature that frustrates consumers and stifles cloud-based computing. The ability to grab all your data and split i not as easy or possible as it should be.

Google launches a way to wrangle Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to tame information overload by leveraging Gmail, where so many people already go daily.

Libraries brim with epic tales of war, madness and whitewashing. With the new Dante's Inferno lighting the way, Wired.com takes a stroll through the stacks in search of the next big literature-based ideogame franchise.

VoiceControl allows you to make calls and play music using spoken commands. It provides a base recognition layer that interfaces with the address book and the contents of the iTunes library to transfrm your speech into call and music requests.

When Jammie Thomas (now Thomas-Rasset) became the first alleged P2P file-swapper to take her case all the way to trial and verdict, no one suspected that she would actually have three trials and verdicts, but that's the case today, as the RIAA rejected a federal judge's decision to slash Thomas-Ras...

A lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers to download and install an update for Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) under the guise that it was critical security update has been tossed out. Last month, a federal judge refused to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which would have mea...

In years past, an ISSCC presentation on a new processor would consist of detailed discussion of the chip's microarchitecture (pipeline, instruction fetch and decode, execution units, etc.), along with at least one shot of a floorplan that marked out the location of major functional blocks (the deco...

Today Google announced its latest social application, designed to bring the fire hose of social media and status updates down to a useful trickle of the most "interesting" bits. Dubbed Google Buzz, the service is designed to offer easier ways to share links, photos, and other information, corral al...

Today Google announced its latest social application, designed to bring the fire hose of social media and status updates down to a useful trickle of the most "interesting" bits. Dubbed Google Buzz, the service is designed to offer easier ways to share links, photos, and other information, corral al...

otick, at any point, cackle maniacally? There is only one way to find out!...

Perfect World Entertainment describes Battle of the Immortals as a 2.5D MMORPG that mixes Eastern and Western culture. There are five classes, an auto-navigation system for quests that means you won' be stuck wondering where to go next, and both Player vs.

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (977377) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. The TLS and SSL protocolsare implemented in several Microsoft products, both client and server.

It has been about a year since the music labels got what they had been asking for from the major online music stores: tiered music pricing. Problem is, that system may not be working out as well as the labels had hoped—Warner Music Group has reported slowed digital music growth since the pricing ch...

Canon Inc. said it will stick to its $1 billion offer to buy Dutch printer maker Oce NV, rejecting calls by shareholders including Hermes Fund Managers Ltd. and Orbis Funds to raise the bid.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China’s biggest chipmaker, posted its 11th straight quarterly loss after charging $299.7 million to cover a litigation settlement with competitor Taiwn Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Autonomy Corp. Plc is selling about 500 million pounds of convertible bonds due 2015 with a call option after three years, it said in a statement.

Apple may pay as little as $219.35 for the tablet's parts, says iSuppli. That leaves room to cut the price of a device that analysts say may be too expensive

The leading maker of computer games is struggling as people turn to cheaper, online alternatives

To compete in social media, Google will draw on strengths like Web e-mail and advertising know-how. But stealing users from Facebook and Twitter is unlikely

Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy flash-chip maker Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion to help it compete better with Samsung Electronics Co.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. fell by the most in almost a week in Hong Kong trading after reporting its quarterly loss widened.

Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion, bolstering its flash-chip business.

Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy chipmaker Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion.

Google's new Buzz is the latest example of a company that still treats consumers and business users as different people, even when they are one and the same.

Broadcom has added support for Bluetooth 3.0 and for the Wi-Fi Direct specification to its software stacks for Android devices.

A new Trojan program steals information from a rival and then deletes it from the computer.

Here are the details--and download links--for ten of the best, free BlackBerry smartphone applications available today.

The hard-drive-based HDC-HS700 (240GB) and flash-storage-based HDC-TM700 (32GB) shoot 1080p video at 60 fps, and offer a three-sensor system that Panasonic says excels in low light.

Papershow, a tool for interactive presentations from Canson, will soon be available for the Mac. The kit, which is making its debut at Macworld Expo this week...

Recent results from comScore show Apple and Google gaining smartphone market share, while RIM, Microsoft, and Palm all declined.

Oracle has officially put both legs on the cloud-computing bandwagon, recently launching a roughly 50-date global road show on the topic.

Some hurdles remain to using your iPhone for holding iChat-like video confabs--not the least of which is that the phone's camera is on the opposite side of the...

After Google's threat last month to exit China, advertisers have become more confident in the search engine's main local rival Baidu.com, Baidu said.