Shares of chip-maker Micron Technology Inc. rose Wednesday as investors hoped that the Japanese company Micron is in talks to buy recently received a big order from Apple Inc.Citing unnamed industry sources, ...

Manufacturers would have to equip large trucks and buses with safety systems that help prevent rollover accidents through computer-controlled braking, under new regulations proposed Wednesday by the government.The ...

Federal regulators are proposing to require that manufacturers equip large trucks and buses with safety systems that help prevent rollover accidents.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposal ...

A123 Systems, which makes batteries for electric cars, announced it was hiring an outside adviser, and its shares rose.

Shares of some top computer companies are up at 10 a.m.:Apple Inc. rose $.48 or .1 percent, to $553.65.Dell Inc. rose $.04 or .2 percent, to $15.38.Hewlett Packard Co. rose $.23 or 1.0 percent, to $22.63.International ...

Nokia has been bumped off its 14-year top spot as the world's largest cellphone company by Samsung, according to a British research firm.Gartner said Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. sold 86.6 million ...

Illegal copying of computer programs in Asia cost businesses $21 billion in lost sales last year and China was on course to set a dubious new record — overtaking the U.S. in losses caused by software piracy.Asia's ...

An industry report says software piracy in Asia cost businesses more than $US20 billion ($A20.18 billion) in lost sales last year.The Business Software Alliance's study released on Wednesday said consumers ...

Utah's chief technology officer has resigned following the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records from state computers by unknown hackers.Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday announced a "comprehensive" ...

A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at the close of trading:Cisco Systems Inc. fell 1.0 percent to $16.54 with 65,225,100 shares traded.Clearwire Corp. fell 3.3 percent to $1.19 with 35,353,400 shares ...

A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading:Opnet Technologies Inc. rose 23.7 percent to $27.35.Reading International Inc. class B rose 23.1 percent to $5.61.VOXX International ...

Shares of some top computer companies were down at the close of trading:Apple Inc. fell $5.05 or .9 percent, to $553.17.Dell Inc. fell $.10 or .6 percent, to $15.34.Hewlett Packard Co. fell $.57 or 2.5 ...

Staffing company On Assignment Inc. on Tuesday completed its $600 million acquisition of Apex Systems Inc., a privately held information technology staffing and services firm in Richmond, Va.The deal, ...

Osprey Medical is a medical device company focused on the development and commercialisation of products that are designed to reduce the incidence of contrast induced nephropathy (CIN). The core technology ...

Hedge fund Elliott Management nominated five candidates for the board of BMC Software Inc. and told the business software developer that its future will be "increasingly difficult" if it chooses ...

U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who ...

Shares of some top computer companies are mixed at 1 p.m.:Apple Inc. rose $3.12 or .6 percent, to $561.34.Dell Inc. rose $.10 or .6 percent, to $15.54.Hewlett Packard Co. fell $.29 or 1.3 percent, to $22.67.International ...

Technology disrupts. No major industry in America is immune to the need to adapt to today's more "connected" world. The winners will be those companies that can harness evolving relationships ...

In a world that's swiftly being reshaped by technology, even well-established brands have to play by new digital rules. Pepsi, selected by U.S. News as one of America's Most Connected Companies for its ...

A few signs of the times: The newest soda products are being promoted heavily through social media, online storefronts are being launched in the cloud, and a caramel macchiato can be purchased with the ...

Cloud computing emerged as disruptive technologies often do--in an entrepreneurial spirit of collaboration in which resources and costs are shared. But so is data, inadvertently or not. When Citigroup ...

At General Mills, a new sales experiment is made possible with new technologies. In 2008, executives of the food giant began to notice that people with sensitivity to gluten were finding it difficult to ...

Think Lowe's, and two words come to mind: home improvement. But if the nation's second-largest home renovation chain succeeds with plans to harness mobile technology to improve store sales, another word ...

At Nordstrom, innovation is never out of style. The upscale fashion apparel chain founded in 1901 wins plaudits for using cutting-edge 21st century technology to offer shoppers convenience--and to stay ...

Battery maker A123 Systems Inc. said Tuesday that its first-quarter more than doubled, pulled down by a steep drop in sales and hefty costs related to its ongoing replacement of potentially defective batteries ...

Calgon Carbon Corp. said Tuesday that its chairman, president and chief executive plans to retire to spend more time with his family.The Pittsburgh-based maker of water and air purifying systems said that ...

Just in time for spring snowmelt: a webcam pointed at one of Yosemite National Park's main attractions, the soaring 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls.The HD camera went live on North America's tallest fall Monday, ...

Look, no hands. Scooting about on what looks like a floating car seat is no sweat for anyone with Honda's new hands-free robotics technology.Swaying your body from side to side is all you need to do to ...

Look, no hands. Scooting about in a unicycle is no sweat with Honda's new robotics technology.Swaying your body from side to side is all you need to do to turn, rotate full circle and zip around on the ...

Scientific instrument maker Agilent Technologies Inc. said Monday that its fiscal second-quarter net income rose 28 percent on stronger orders and higher revenue, beating Wall Street expectations and sending ...

Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:April 6: Samsung Electronics Co. says it is expecting ...

A look at how selected companies providing computers, components, services and related software are faring:April 11: Research groups Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments in the first quarter were ...

Subscriber figures and other data from selected Internet service providers:April 19: Verizon Communications Inc. added 193,000 FiOS Internet customers in the first three months of the year to end the quarter ...