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Intel announced Sunday it has made two important leaps with its new server and high-end PC processors: They are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside the processors; plus, they are the first to be manufactured on the company's 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process...

Sprint and Clearwire have torn up the letter of intent (LOI) that joined the two companies in their efforts to build high-speed wireless Internet networks -- known as "WiMax" networks -- across the nation. The pair inked the letter this summer, but according to Sprint, "The two companies could not resolve complexities associated with the LOI and failed to reach final agreement on the terms of the transaction."

IBM has announced a flurry of new components that reinvigorate the company's efforts to create enterprise computing systems smart enough to manage and heal themselves ...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) collect and record massive amounts of Americans' Internet communications...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) collect and record massive amounts of Americans' Internet communications...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) collect and record massive amounts of Americans' Internet communications...

Red Hat has signed a pair of agreements with Sun Microsystems that will help put the open source company on the fast track to delivering a more complete end-to-end application development and runtime stack for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers ...

An autonomous robotic SUV from Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the US$2 million prize in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Urban Challenge by successfully completing an urban obstacle course faster than 10 other finalists in the race, held Nov. 3. "Boss," as the robotized 2007 Chevy Tahoe is called, averaged 14 miles per hour over 55 miles...

Wal-Mart stores across the U.S. held a special promotional HD DVD player sale this week, offering Toshiba's HD-A2 DVD player for a mere US$98.87. The sale was part of Wal-Mart's Secret In-Store Specials promotion designed to jump-start the holiday buying season ...

Presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul has an ardent following of tech-savvy supporters -- at least one of which may have employed the use of hijacked PCs from around the world to spread pro-Paul spam. Several security researchers have noted a blast of spam e-mail messages sent earlier this week purporting to support Paul's bid for the Republican Presidential nomination...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 402 to 0 Tuesday to extend the ban on Internet service taxes another seven years, adopting the same time frame passed by the Senate Friday ...

The U.S. Senate, echoing a similar bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week, has approved an extension to a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access for another seven years. The House's version, however, calls for a four-year ban. The original ban, first imposed in 1998, is set to expire Nov. 1 ...

The scattered and raging wildfires in southern California are consuming homes at a wicked pace, having burned more than a 1,500 buildings, with tens of thousands more downwind and in danger. A half-million people have evacuated, President Bush has declared a state of emergency and through it all, everyone from reporters at traditional news outlets to everyday people are turning to technology to cover and share the latest news...

MySpace is breaking into the casual gaming world, and it's tapped casual games company Oberon Media to get the job done. In early 2008, MySpace will launch MySpace Games, which will let users choose from hundreds of games for free online play ...

IBM and MediaTek have announced a joint effort to develop ultra-fast chipsets that will be able to blast a full-length high-definition movie faster than most people can read this sentence. For example, IBM says, a consumer could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus the 10 minutes it takes using current WiFi technology...

The New England Patriots NFL football team now has customer information from ticket reselling service StubHub. The team reportedly gained access to 13,000 records of people who purchased, sold or bid on Patriots tickets on the site after taking StubHub to court ...

A teenager from Washington state was arrested last week on charges of hacking into an Orange County, Calif., 911 system and tricking the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) into sending a SWAT team to an innocent couple's home in Lake Forest ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks ...

The House Judiciary Committee has approved a four-year extension on a ban on taxing Internet services, endorsing what would be a mixed blessing to cable, telephone and Internet service companies that want Congress to make the ban permanent. The current moratorium, which is nearly a decade old, will expire Nov. 1, 2007 ...

Japanese auto manufacturers will show off their hottest, quirkiest and most environmentally friendly automobiles at the upcoming 2007 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. Some car makers, however, are already previewing their upcoming creations, the most interesting of which are the concept cars ...