“Current Freescale MRAM products have strong traction in the market,” Steve Socolof, managing partner of New Venture Partners, said in a statement.
(For more information on MRAM see MRAM-info. For an in-depth explanation of technologies used in MRAM see this explanation of electron spin and so-called spintronics.)
MRAM uses magnetic materials combined with conventional silicon circuitry [...]

Linux captures the ‘green’ flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures – Network WorldTests give Linux the edge on energy efficiency, although your "wattage may vary."
Toyota develops improved hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle – ReutersThe fuel cell vehicle, for lease in Japan, can go over 500 miles on a tank in very cold temperatures.
Stion leaves photovoltaic patent trail [...]

“The dynamics of delivering information to audiences has changed forever due to technology,” said a jointly released statement from the papers. “The economics of the newspaper business demand change to survive.”

Now, the only hope for newspapers is if they can make a business out of online publishing. Nothing is for certain.

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The Detroit Free [...]

A switch to this more privacy-protecting method of Web data submission, known as a HTTP POST, would be a trivial change for Google’s engineers. Furthermore, it wouldn’t lead to any additional data processing resources for its vast number of servers. For Google, such a change would cost the company essentially nothing yet it would give [...]

The software maker confirmed the planned move to CNET News, but declined to go into details ahead of the Tuesday announcement. However, Network World
speculated that the company may ease up on a licensing requirement that ties software in a virtual machine to running on a particular server.

In its continuing effort to adjust to the realities [...]

But the buyout efforts failed, with Microsoft walking away from the table after Yahoo rebuffed its sweetened bid of $33 a share, up from its initial offer of $31 a share. Subsequently, a run at trying to acquire just Yahoo’s search business, rather than the entire company, failed last week, after Yahoo refused to sell [...]

Additionally, longtime MySpace executive Jeff Berman has been promoted to president of sales and marketing, where he’ll oversee the new platform as well as HyperTargeting, online marketing, and other revenue-drawing initiatives at the social network. With a background in politics, Berman started at MySpace as senior vice president of public affairs, where he spearheaded the [...]

Through increased scale and operational innovations, we’ve been able to lower the cost of running Amazon S3. We’ve always said we would pass on savings to our customers when we could, and we’re doing so again now.

Amazon.com has announced that it is dropping prices for heavy users of its hosted storage service, S3. The [...]

Cable operator Comcast finally admitted that it has been slowing down BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic. And it has provided a plan for managing traffic, which doesn’t include singling out specific types of traffic. The Federal Communications Commission ordered the company earlier this year not to monkey with customers’ traffic. Other cable operators, such as [...]

“We believe that the design-around does not infringe Tivo’s patent and that Tivo’s pending motion for contempt should be denied,” the company said in a statement. “We look forward to that ruling in the near future.”

A jury in 2006 found that EchoStar’s Dish Network digital video recorders infringed upon a patent held by TiVo and [...]