Charles Thacker, the lead designer on the Alto, the Xerox PARC prototype of the modern personal computer, won the Turing Award.

As awareness spreads that lithium is an ingredient for hybrid cars, a hunt is under way for sources of the metal.

Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com.

Google adds biking directions to its digital maps for 150 American cities, to the acclaim of cycling activists.

The social networking site plans to roll out features next month that will give its 400 million users the option of sharing their location with friends as part of their news feeds.

Two of the world's computing powerhouses have started a war of words around their forthcoming tablet computers.

Major League Baseball issues a $14.95 baseball app that works on most smartphones. But to watch the live games, you'll need to pay $100 more.

An alarm goes out online, and a messenger is soon reunited with his stolen bike.

Panasonic has added two new Micro Four Thirds cameras to its line-up, including a model with a touch-screen and one that is the smallest interchangeable lens camera with a viewfinder.

Cisco has unveiled its biggest routing system to date, one that the company says is capable of linking everyone in China on a video call.

Foursquare, a location-based social network, is rolling out new tools that will give businesses more information about their customers and allow them to target special offers.

With its Translator Toolkit, Google hopes to teach its translation system to understand minority languages, like Maori.

The company’s network pushes the limits of translation technology and has become a favored source for millions.

Palm has added new features in its Web OS 1.4 upgrade. Here's how to get it.

A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.

How to rid your PC of old System Restore files.

France Télécom has already stopped several practices identified as being particularly disruptive, like forcing employees to change jobs and closing work sites.

Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a brain-controlled computer, the one person that Conan O'Brien follows on Twitter and a new site that broadcasts your purchase history to your followers.

The music and technology industries are still trying to figure out how we will listen to music online in the future, but Pandora is trying to capitalize on whatever business model eventually emerges.