Prominent developer, openness advocate leaving Yahoo

Microsoft's openness pledge: What's the reality?
I've taken some flak from the anti-Microsoft crowd for my positive report on Microsoft's openness pledge. I stand by my position but think it's also...

Google calls Microsoft's 'hostile' bid for Yahoo troubling
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, a Google executive says. Microsoft's $44.6 billion "hostile"...

Swiss secret sauce to power green choppers
(Credit: Innosuisse) Hydrogen peroxide is not just for blonds anymore. It's also used to power an experimental helicopter that the developer says is...

Programming note: Politics meets tech
In the next few weeks, CNET and CBS will be tag teaming the Democratic and Republican national conventions surfacing technology issues as they pop...

Alleged TJX hackers charged
Eleven people have been charged with hacking eight major U.S. retailers, including TJX, but only three are currently in custody.