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A group of Kindle e-book readers is protesting the price of e-books being higher than $10. Their rationale is that Kindle books cannot be distributed, traded or sold, and should cost much lower than their paper counterparts.
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The Associated Press says it will "pursue legal and legislative actions" against aggregators who use member content without permission.
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Two patients who receive double hand transplants regain motor control of their hands, suggesting it's possible to regenerate brain control systems.
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The U.S. Army introduced a gargantuan plan In 2003to wage the wars of tomorrow. Now, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking to all-but-end the Army?s "future combat systems."
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Civic-minded coders created 45 new apps to help Americans become more engaged ciitzens as part of the Sunshine Foundation's Apps for America contest. The official winners will be announced in weeks, but Wired.com wants your votes now.
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The newest router from Fon will add file-sharing, automatic YouTube video uploading and network storage capabilities to the company's signature router, which already enables internet sharing via Wi-Fi.
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You can drive the Transition -- a small plane that parks in your garage -- if you have $194K, that is. It could shake up aviation, if not ground transportation.
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It ain't over until it's over, but there are several reports that the IBM-Sun Microsystems merger has hit the skids. Sun shares plummet, and Om Malik suggests the company consider going private instead.
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An international contest counts 140,000 votes, sending the Hubble Space Telescope to capture an image of three galaxies 400 million light years from Earth. The trio, along with five other contestants, had only been photographed by ground-based telescopes.
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The pharmacy chain pulls the Chia Obama ceramic-plant product from its shelves, saying the likeness of President Barack Obama is not appropriate.