Despite the early kinks attending MobileMe, what’s not to like about the concept? I’ll include Live Mesh in the category, though Microsoft still remains in beta with the product.
Synchronizing e-mail, calendars, and contacts–it’s a fine idea. Unfortunately, nobody has figured it out to anyone’s full …

IBM is making a $300 million bet that it can turn cloud computing into a lot more than the buzzword du jour.

(Credit: CNET News)

Big Blue is spending that sum to equip 13 data centers around the world with infrastructure that will let customers access a bevy of cloud-based …

Intel has invented a way to double the air flow generated by fans used to cool ultrathin notebook computers.

Demonstrating a prototype of the technology in public for the first time at its developer forum taking place this week in San Francisco, Intel says the upshot will be cooler computers–and …

Wish I could read minds because I’d love to know what the representatives from Comcast and Verizon were thinking as they listened to lobbyists from the recording and film industries push them to snoop on their customers.

All in the pursuit of upholding the law, of course. (Naturally.)

“We …

Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who have been barred by a court order from discussing subway card vulnerabilities are now free to say what they want.

The University of Michigan released its annual ACSI scores for the PC industry, and Apple took top honors for the fifth straight year.
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Here’s the way things work at Microsoft: After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company’s worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I’ll be first to …

Frustrated with political deadlock, solar energy companies fear a big setback if Congress fails to renew a key federal tax credit set to expire at the end of the year.

The provision would extend a 30 percent break of up to $2,000 to homeowners. Businesses would qualify for the …

Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s new geolocation service, is fresh out of the company’s Brickhouse development team, and third parties are lining up to cut deals.

Who can deny that location is going to become increasingly important for Web services? In the initial rush of coverage, MG Siegler correctly noted …

It wasn’t the world’s worst-kept secret but it wins honorable mention.

As expected, Yahoo announced Thursday afternoon that it had appointed Frank J. Biondi Jr. and John H. Chapple to its board of directors.

This seemingly puts a final coda on the months-long Carl Icahn soap opera, which …

When I was a kid, my mother would complain that I’d tune her out whenever it came to taking out the garbage or mowing the lawn. In other words, when it came to all the stuff I didn’t want to do.

“You have your own radio frequency in …