http://www.kpic.com/news/tech RSS Feed for KPIC - News - Technology en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:02:06 GMT http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25873804.html The Oregon State University Open Source Lab’s capacity to support open source projects is being expanded through a donation of $300,000 from Google. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25856039.html A judge's ruling has brought the organization that hosts the Academy Awards a step closer to discovering how tickets to this year's show got online. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25855659.html TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool - perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25855524.html With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25803039.html Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25802979.html A federal appeals court Tuesday agreed with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25765054.html Microsoft Corp. will let independent developers sell video games for the Xbox 360 console - and keep most of the profits - beginning this holiday season, the company said Tuesday. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25757829.html The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments - without actually having to talk to anyone. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25757699.html SES Americom, which provides bandwidth for the services, had threatened to halt service by noon Tuesday if the company was not paid for services rendered. However, the company informed Navajo officials Monday night that it had decided not to shut down services until Aug. 1. http://www.kpic.com/news/tech/25757589.html The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, government, university and industry panelists predicted Monday.