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Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future

Fri Oct 10, 10:20 AM ET

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.

  • In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo, Chris Martin of the British band Coldplay performs on stage at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE, Alessandro Della Bella, file)
    Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics 4 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync.

  • The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale, California, May 5, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
    Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again 44 minutes ago

    SEATTLE - When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.

  • Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms Thu Oct 9, 5:32 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.

  • The Yoggie GateKeeper Pico ($149),top, the IronKey ($149), center, and Take Anywhere's Pocket Safe ($59.95) bottom are shown Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008, in Atlanta. These small flash drives offer added computer security for the user. The IronKey and Pocket Safe units offer data encryption and password protection to keep the stored data on them private. The Yoggie serves as a plugin firewall and anti-virus tool to secure the user's online activities. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
    Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security Thu Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET

    ATLANTA - Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.

  • People play a new driving game at Sony Corp.'s PlayStation booth during a media preview of the annual Tokyo Game Show in Chiba near Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called 'avatars,' Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
    Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start Thu Oct 9, 8:34 AM ET

    CHIBA, Japan - Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.

  • Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent Thu Oct 9, 6:36 PM ET

    BOISE, Idaho - Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday.

  • YouTube on Tuesday added links to online stores in a move crafted to pump more money from the hot video-sharing website Google bought nearly two years ago in a 1.65 billion dollar stock deal.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)
    Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses Wed Oct 8, 4:48 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.

  • 40 laid off at software company as execs arrested Wed Oct 8, 9:30 PM ET

    SEATTLE - Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.

  • This photo provided by Research in Motion Ltd., shows the company's new touch-screen phone, the Storm. With the new model being announced Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2008 the Storm, RIM is for the first time giving up the physical keypad in favor of a large screen, just like the one on Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Research in Motion Ltd.)
    BlackBerry Storm has touch screen you can feel Wed Oct 8, 11:15 AM ET

    NEW YORK - Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

  • Google gets into video games — with ads Wed Oct 8, 10:11 AM ET

    NEW YORK - Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game.

  • EU proposes increased rights for Internet shoppers Wed Oct 8, 9:36 AM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.

  • IBM 3Q profit a positive sign for tech sector Thu Oct 9, 11:29 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of IBM Corp. jumped Thursday after the technology company's surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the worsening economic climate.

  • Fabless future: Struggling AMD spins off factories Tue Oct 7, 4:53 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - For years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s scrappy image was best summed up by an insult that founder Jerry Sanders lobbed against rivals: "Real men have fabs."

  • People play new games at Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 booth during a media preview of the annual Tokyo Game Show in Chiba near Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Microsoft Corp. will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make inroads in a market where it has long struggled. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
    Microsoft tries for slice of Japan game market Thu Oct 9, 4:43 AM ET

    CHIBA, Japan - Microsoft Corp. will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make inroads in a market where it has long struggled.

  • YouTube flips switch on new sales channel Tue Oct 7, 5:29 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Online video leader YouTube has opened up its version of a home shopping network in its latest effort to wring more revenue from its massive audience and justify the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid for the site two years ago.

  • `Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets Tue Oct 7, 2:02 PM ET

    SEATTLE - Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.

  • MySpace, HP in deal to encourage photo printing Tue Oct 7, 3:56 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Among all the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site's users have uploaded almost 4 billion photos. Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co., MySpace hopes people will increasingly print these images and, eventually, buy photo-embellished merchandise, too.

  • Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter Tue Oct 7, 2:13 PM ET

    NEW YORK - U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several consecutive quarters of increases.