Mar 10, 2010 06:15AM

1366 Tech leaps from pure silcon to solar wafer

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.

Mar 10, 2010 05:00AM

Nasdaq 5,000: Ten years after the dot-com peak

Exactly 10 years ago, during the height of the dot-com mania, the Nasdaq reached its all-time high of 5,408.62 on March 10, 2000. It has never recovered.

Mar 10, 2010 05:00AM

Turning smartphones into air quality monitors

Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.

Mar 10, 2010 05:00AM

Why the explosion of social games excites veteran developers

When games like Farmville have 83 million users, designers who are used to working on games that took years to build have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook games.

Mar 10, 2010 05:00AM

SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin

The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.

Mar 10, 2010 01:25AM

Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats

Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.