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Yahoo did its best to stage a rival to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, but after three years of lagging results, the Internet icon is putting its Yahoo! Music service to rest and leaving subscribers with copy-protected ...

A visitor to an international game fair in Shanghai checks out the wares. Despite government controls on Internet use, China has surpassed the U.S. in Internet users.

There are currently great needs and great opportunities for improvement in post-secondary science education.

Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters.

Barring some unlikely bolt of inspiration at Microsoft, Google should continue to pad its already formidable lead in search advertising.

I first wrote about Microsoft's attempts to get Windows XP on the OLPC last December. You may recall that James Utzschneider, the general manager of Microsoft's emerging market unit, was just about the make at trip to the OLPC Foundation.

Earlier we wrote about how Microsoft used a kind of blind taste test to get die-hard Windows XP users to try Vista --- and that they even liked it. They were told that they were trying a new OS, called Mojave. We also said that Microsoft hadn't figured out a marketing campaign, but it appears that's changed.

There are currently great needs and great opportunities for improvement in post-secondary science education.

A new, highly efficient material that converts heat into electricity may one day help cars get the most out of a gallon of gas, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

An astronaut who once walked on the moon is causing a stir with claims the government is covering up the truth about aliens and UFOs.

"It's incredible to think that we might be the only intelligent, living system in the universe. That's not credible anymore," Apollo 14 veteran Edgar Mitchell told WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday.

It's not necessarily laziness that makes people hit the "snooze" button in the morning.

Edward Davidson, convicted "spam king," walked away from a minimum security prison in Florence, Colo. on Sunday. Thursday, four days after his jailbreak, Davidson was found dead at the grisly scene of an apparent murder-suicide outside of Aurora, Colo.

Hewlett Packard is up to two years away from starting to build a "central nervous system for the earth", known as CeNSE.

Many have said they're not interested in Windows Vista, that Windows XP is just fine for them. And in fact, you could go so far as to say some of them actually hate the OS. Still, a new OS, Mojave, may just be the key to a new marketing campaign.

Scientists say they have discovered what makes the northern lights dance.

Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade – being expelled, suspended or dropping out – were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems.

Often people taking antidepressants - or really any drug - have to balance side effects versus benefit overall. Those crippled by depression and/or anxiety may be willing to give up a few things to dispel the gray clouds. For example, sex.

Sony said Wednesday they have formed a special interest group to develop a new industry standard for multiroom audio, video and control connectivity utilizing Wireless Home Digital Interface technology.

Development of a Linux desktop and a new open-source business model are the two high priorities for Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Linux founder said this week.

On an arid outcropping of basalt in northwestern Australia, some of the oldest rocks on Earth lie exposed to the fierce sun.