France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that revolutionized data storage and led to gadgets such as laptops and iPods.

Italy launched on Thursday the auction for WiMAX licenses, a super-fast wireless broadband that can reach areas not connected by a traditional broadband network, the Communications Ministry said in a statement.

The headquarters of Wikipedia.com, operator of the online encyclopedia, is relocating in January from St. Petersburg, Florida, to San Francisco.

Google is bringing the worlds of online video and map-making closer together by allowing users of its Google Earth software to watch and hear YouTube videos mapped to specific locations.

IBM launched a program that allows mainframe customers to monitor their systems' precise energy consumption in real-time, as an extension of the company's Project Big Green.

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has developed two new tools for medical displays: the SMfit Total Care quality software guarantees constant image quality on the screens, and the SMfit Site Manager Software allows remote maintenance of displays installed anywhere in the world.

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India's telecommunications service provider, to deploy broadband access across 7000 Indian villages.

An action-adventure game, "Assassin's Creed," that lets players control a Crusades-era hitman stalking and killing his targets, is gearing up to be one of the biggest titles this holiday.

Environmental group Greenpeace is satellite tracking 19 humpback whales as they travel from the South Pacific back to Antarctic waters this whaling season, to prove Japan does not need to kill whales to study them.

Nintendo's hot Wii handheld console is adding a home fitness game to its arsenal before the key year-end gift season, pushing further into the increasingly lucrative health and lifestyle video game segment.

When Cisco Systems decided to enter the Second Life virtual world, things didn't turn out exactly as the network equipment supplier expected.

"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker dropped some clues to an upcoming Second Life integration with his CBS series in his address here Wednesday at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said on Wednesday it will work with Eatoni Ergonomics Inc to develop a new text keyboard technology.

The move to notebook personal computers and mobile devices from desktop machines is happening faster than expected, especially in emerging markets, Dell Inc Chairman Michael Dell said on Wednesday.

The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday brushed aside proposals by Verizon Wireless to modify open-platform rules that the agency plans to impose in a January auction of key wireless spectrum.

The European Union's data watchdog will take another few months to decide whether Google Inc or other Web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a participant in the watchdog's meeting said on Wednesday.

Adobe Systems, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said some of its programs contain a flaw that makes personal computers vulnerable to attack.

Nine albums from the late George Harrison have been made available online through retailers such as Apple's iTunes, record label Parlophone said on Wednesday, as the fourth and final member of the Beatles finally went digital.

Internet2 announced the completion of its new nationwide network infrastructure, at its annual Fall Member Meeting.

Alvarion was chosen to deliver Ertach Argentina's first Mobile WiMAX solution for trial in South America.

Nortel and Polycom are adding high definition (HD) video conferencing and telepresence to unified communications for enterprises.

Marvell announced that the Marvell 88DE2710 digital video format converter with Qdeo video processing is a featured component of the LG BH200 Super Blu player.

IBM and Linden Labs, the operator of the Second Life virtual world, said on Tuesday they will work on ways to eventually let people use the a single online persona in different online services.

The Associated Press is suing VeriSign Inc to stop its online subsidiary Moreover Technologies Inc from publishing AP news reports without permission.

Google has acquired the Finnish company Jaiku, one of a new class of start-ups that offer instant-messaging tools for Web and mobile phone users to keep track of their friends' daily activities.