A Friday evening launch will send the Kepler spacecraft out into the Milky Way on a mission to discover places that might support life as we know it.

Should PG and R be used to warn you about the content on the Web? Don Reisinger thinks it's a dumb idea.

Despite a trade ban, a third party is selling Hewlett-Packard's products in cities such as Tehran. According to The Boston Globe, that could be a violation of the law.

Not so great.

The big four labels said to be discussing a partnership with Hulu. But is this the answer to their tech dilemma? Hardly.

The outlook for clean tech in 2009 is solid, with money projected to go to start-ups. But the falling price of oil and the financial crisis have dampened the speed of technology innovation.

Competition among providers is giving consumers more bang for their buck in broadband services, but it isn't holding back increases in TV service prices.

What seemed like a decent though uninspiring year for the tech industry took a nosedive, starting in September.

From the continuing ascent of Apple's iPhone to the drastic downturn in the economy, and from debate over Yahoo's future to the election of a new president, it was quite a year.

Sony needs to step up the PS3 if it doesn't want to lose out to the Wii and Xbox.

ZigTag, an "intelligent" social bookmarking tool, has finally launched to the public and Times Square is fitted with cameras to record New Year's Eve festivities.

Cyber barter site is set to put into effect a worldwide ban on ivory products on Jan. 1, a move animal rights advocates hope will slow the illegal trade in wildlife species and products online.

Acer is quick to unveil a system with the new quad-core processor. Also out from Intel: additional mobile Core 2 Duo processors.

My biggest mistake was in thinking that open source was so different that it defied the laws of economic gravity.

How far would you go to demonstrate your concern for the environment? Californian Dave Chameides trumps the landfill with his own basement stash of trash.

Bloggers are already putting together mock-ups and a wish list of new features that would be key in any future version of the Apple gadget.

People use the search champion out of habit, so competitors that want to displace Google need to feed customers a different way of thinking and behaving.

This eReader offer comes with no strings attached! Take the fiction and run.

In a patent application, Redmond argues that you would benefit from metered computing by having a PC with an extended "useful life."

The British Royal Navy is installing a modified version of Windows XP on its fleet of nuclear submarines, in a victory at sea for commercial off-the-shelf technology.