Michelle Meyers is an associate editor who tracks online happenings in media, entertainment, and politics. E-mail Michelle.
NASA is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols. The concepts are also being applied to flaky networks back home.
With Yahoo looking beyond Jerry Yang for a new CEO, Microsoft could be open to a mutually beneficial search deal.
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Business Tech
Akamai to cut 7 percent of workforceWeb content delivery company to slice 110 positions, as a means to reduce expenses in weakening economy.
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Photos: Nokia, Navteq team up as traffic monitors
The Audiophiliac
Poll: Has everything that can be invented been invented?Let's limit this discussion to audio and video products, what do you want that has yet to be invented?
Coop's Corner
On second thought, Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ads are still unbelievably lameNow that we've had a few months to digest this, I think the verdict is clear: This is something straight out the "Stepford Wives"
Video
Yang resignation, successor the talk of the Valley
Digital Media
Yahoo whips out the GlueInternet search pioneer launches beta test of its Glue Pages in the U.S., taking a page from its experimental visual search results site on Yahoo India.
Video
Maria Shriver touts new online learning tool
Gaming and Culture
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contractInitiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Cutting Edge
Mathematica 7 arrives with built-in human genomeThe newest version of the software gets new data sets, image processing abilities, and built-in support for quad-core chips.
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Photos: HP unveils multitouch notebook
Webware
Billboard, Eventful team up to top new chartsEventful has teamed up with Billboard to present new charts for the popular music brand.
Planetary Gear
Solar CEO serious about buying GM's OpelSolarWorld CEO goes on German radio to say he's serious about a $1.3 billion bid for General Motors' Opel.
