http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Technology 60 Tue, 13 May 2008 13:51:36 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530726.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530726.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT What: Iomega eGo 160GB Portable Hard Drive Features: This model connects with either a FireWire or USB cable. Comes with software to automatically back up your computer's files. Is able to withstand being dropped to the floor from a short distance. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530864.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530864.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:44 EDT Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531183.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531183.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:08 EDT Corporate Express NV said it is willing to consider a sweetened $2.47 billion hostile takeover bid by rival office products supplier Staples Inc., which boosted its offering price 10 percent Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531493.html Tue, 13 May 2008 13:35 EDT Japanese electronics company Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday its loss widened in the latest fiscal year because of weak sales of plasma TVs in the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531129.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531129.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:28 EDT Japan's top telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit surged 32 percent in fiscal 2007 on booming long distance and international communications business. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531432.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531432.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:51 EDT EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a model for how big cities should deploy Wi-Fi. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531504.html Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50 EDT A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union regulators that Microsoft Corp.'s new file format for storing documents discouraged competition. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530795.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530795.html Tue, 13 May 2008 00:13 EDT Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong way. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531194.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531194.html Tue, 13 May 2008 08:58 EDT Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings exceeded expectations and the company raised its full-year financial targets, the computer maker and technology services provider said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531476.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/531476.html Tue, 13 May 2008 13:10 EDT Sprint Nextel Corp. CEO Dan Hesse says the company is taking the necessary steps to regain its momentum against its wireless competitors. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530724.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530724.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT Research In Motion on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530324.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530324.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:39 EDT The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530272.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530272.html Tue, 13 May 2008 11:49 EDT Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530519.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530519.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:03 EDT Two executives have left Advanced Micro Devices Inc., including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/529618.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/529618.html Mon, 12 May 2008 09:58 EDT Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/529888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/529888.html Mon, 12 May 2008 13:17 EDT XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Monday its first-quarter loss widened by nearly 6 percent even as revenue jumped 17 percent. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530005.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530005.html Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29 EDT An affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., iPCS Inc., said Monday it is seeking to block Sprint from forming a wireless broadband company with Clearwire Corp. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530201.html Mon, 12 May 2008 14:57 EDT What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530192.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530192.html Mon, 12 May 2008 15:58 EDT 4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away. Cincinnati doctors are experimenting with texting to tackle a big problem: Tweens and teens too often do a lousy job of controlling chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes or kidney disease. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530404.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530404.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:53 EDT For hardcore gamers, controlling a video-game character is second nature. You use one joystick to run, use another stick to look around, press the right trigger to shoot and use various buttons to open doors, take cover or talk to other characters. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530538.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/530538.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:33 EDT A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.