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Electric car charging startup Better Place is coming to California, as Bay Area leaders launch plans to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.

Despite facing an economic meltdown that has retailers in fear, the Redmond giant launches Microsoft Store. That marks its second e-commerce effort post Windows Marketplace launch.

Microsoft has launched something long overdue: An online store. Yes Virginia, you can download Windows. The launch is a bit quiet.

Trevin Chow, a senior program manager at Microsoft, announced the “first-party” store on his blog.

The software giant’s Windows blog also plugs a purchase of Microsoft’s Life Cam Show gadgets.

AMD on Thursday will launch its “Shanghai” platform, its latest batch of Opteron server chips.

With Shanghai, AMD gets a do-over from its ill-fated Barcelona launch. At a high-level, Shanghai gives a 400 MHz speed gain in the same thermal band as Barcelona.

About a week early before the processor's official launch, e-tailers are taking orders for the Core i7.

It’s been a little more than a year since YouTube announced the launch of its system to identify videos uploaded to its site that contained, without authorization, copyrighted content from television program and movie producers.

Boeing announces fresh delays to the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner and blames a 58-day machinists' strike.

Garmin said Wednesday that it nuvifone, a GPS enabled phone, is on track to launch in the first half of 2009 and should hit carrier labs in the earlier part of the year.

India counts down to the launch of Chandrayaan 1, the country's first mission to the Moon.

Google has injected some legitimacy into the Web-based video game market, announcing a beta launch of AdSense for games.

(Techmeme) In-game advertising isn’t new. Many of the more popular games for the big console players have had ads embedded in them for a while.