• Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops 9/6/2008, 9:51 a.m. EDT
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.

• European spacecraft flys by asteroid, camera stops 9/6/2008, 7:16 a.m. EDT
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.

• Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old 9/6/2008, 1:23 a.m. EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.

• Cassini detects partial rings with Saturn's moons 9/6/2008, 12:35 a.m. EDT
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons, scientists said Friday.

• ESA spacecraft completes flyby of Steins asteroid 9/5/2008, 7:25 p.m. EDT
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said Friday night.

• Aruba Networks declines after analyst downgrade 9/5/2008, 5:23 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Aruba Networks Inc. shares fell Friday after an analyst downgraded the stock to "Equal Weight," saying that despite strong sales, ongoing capital investments are limiting the company's ability to increase its earnings.

• Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk 9/5/2008, 4:39 p.m. EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.

• Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive 9/5/2008, 4:36 p.m. EDT
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.

• Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump 9/5/2008, 4:21 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.

• Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps 9/5/2008, 2:46 p.m. EDT
(AP) — NEW YORK — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.

• NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms 9/5/2008, 12:25 p.m. EDT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days.

• Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old 9/5/2008, 12:07 p.m. EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.

• Summary box: Google still feeling lucky at 10 9/5/2008, 11:34 a.m. EDT
(AP) — HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They set up shop in their Stanford dorm rooms with just four computers before moving their headquarters to a garage owned by Brin's future sister-in-law.

• National Semi earnings down on tax rate 9/5/2008, 9:51 a.m. EDT
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (AP) — National Semiconductor Corp., which makes chips that regulate power and perform other functions in gadgets, reported Friday its first-quarter profit fell 7 percent from a year ago due to a higher tax rate.

• Russia's MTS to sell Apple iPhone 9/5/2008, 9:32 a.m. EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's number one cell operator MTS said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Russia.

• Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk 9/5/2008, 7:27 a.m. EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.

• Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias 9/5/2008, 7:04 a.m. EDT
VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.

• ESA spacecraft set for flyby of Steins asteroid 9/5/2008, 5:04 a.m. EDT
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Scientists at the European Space Agency are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system.

• Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US 9/4/2008, 9:20 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

• Sinking Yahoo: Shares drop to nearly 5-year low 9/4/2008, 7:32 p.m. EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc.'s stock sank to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management tries to justify their rebuff of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.

• Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US 9/4/2008, 6:06 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

• SeaChange expects 2009 revenue to climb 10 percent 9/4/2008, 6:01 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — SeaChange International Inc. said it expects to be profitable in the second half of its fiscal 2009 year and predicts revenue for the year will be about 10 percent above fiscal 2008 levels.

• SeaChange's 2Q beats Wall Street views by 2c 9/4/2008, 5:59 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — SeaChange International Inc. reported fiscal 2009 second-quarter results that beat Wall Street's estimates late Thursday.

• Ciena stock plunges on lackluster outlook 9/4/2008, 5:43 p.m. EDT
LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — Ciena Corp.'s market value crumbled by nearly 25 percent Thursday after the telecommunications and network equipment maker forecast a lackluster finish to its fiscal year.

• Sony recalls laptops for possible overheating 9/4/2008, 4:51 p.m. EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.

• Comcast appeals FCC Web traffic-blocking decision 9/4/2008, 4:45 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Comcast Corp. is appealing an FCC ruling that the company is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could determine the extent of the government's authority to regulate the Internet.

• Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood 9/4/2008, 4:19 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.

• NASA moves space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad 9/4/2008, 2:55 p.m. EDT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms.

• Facebook to test New Jersey's Web safety icon 9/4/2008, 7:46 a.m. EDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office.

• Sony recalls Vaio laptops for possible overheating 9/4/2008, 7:39 a.m. EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Sony says it is recalling 440,000 units of Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating.

• Facebook to test NJ's Web safety icon 9/4/2008, 5:10 a.m. EDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office.

• 19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada 9/4/2008, 3:47 a.m. EDT
TORONTO (AP) — A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

• Cablevision completes first phase of WiFi buildout 9/4/2008, 12:21 a.m. EDT
(AP) — Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years.

• Israeli diggers uncover parts of ancient wall 9/3/2008, 4:35 p.m. EDT
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered new sections of Jerusalem's ancient walls, continuing a project started more than a century ago.

• New home door locks can be controlled online 9/3/2008, 4:10 p.m. EDT
DENVER (AP) — What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?

• Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007 9/3/2008, 3:33 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Wednesday.

• Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood 9/3/2008, 2:56 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.

• AT&T wireless data network goes out in East 9/3/2008, 12:33 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc.'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company.

• New music site gives fans a cut of tune sales 9/3/2008, 10:13 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Being a trendsetter can be pricey. As any fashionista or gadget hound knows, the latest frocks and tech toys don't pay for themselves. But a new Web site is trying to make it profitable for music lovers to stay ahead of the curve — by paying them when other people purchase MP3s they've bought.

• CEO of embattled Web-tracking firm NebuAd leaves 9/3/2008, 9:52 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive of NebuAd Inc., whose Web tracking technology raised a privacy backlash, has left the company to be chief financial officer at Verifone Holdings Inc., a maker of payment processing equipment.

• Summary Box: Review finds Chrome lacking polish 9/3/2008, 9:18 a.m. EDT
(AP) — GOOGLE'S BROWSER: Chrome has the right bells and whistles and a few cosmetic enhancements over its main rivals, Firefox and Internet Explorer. But under the hood its performance fell a bit short in initial tests.

• Google polishes product line with Chrome browser 9/3/2008, 7:37 a.m. EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal computers.

• Deal reached to help Kootenai sturgeon spawn 9/3/2008, 5:32 a.m. EDT
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The government and environmentalists have reached an agreement to help the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon spawn for the first time since the 1970s, the parties say.

• New eBay site has social, environmental aim 9/3/2008, 4:55 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Most consumers probably associate eBay Inc. more with vintage lunch boxes and low-priced electronics than with laptop bags made from recycled plastic by women in New Delhi.

• Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood 9/3/2008, 12:05 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.

• Google polishes product line with Chrome browser 9/2/2008, 6:27 p.m. EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal computers.

• Tropical quartet: 4 storms with more to come 9/2/2008, 4:57 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tropics seem to be going crazy what with the remnants of Gustav, the new threat from Hanna, a strengthening Ike and newcomer Josephine. Get used to it.

• Gustav brings down cell, Internet service 9/2/2008, 3:15 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav brought down cellular and Internet service in parts of Louisiana, but its impact was much milder than that of Katrina.

• VMware EVP of R&D goes back to Oracle 9/2/2008, 1:22 p.m. EDT
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Software company VMware Inc. said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development, Richard Sarwal, has resigned.

• Struggling Alcatel-Lucent names new top executives 9/2/2008, 1:14 p.m. EDT
PARIS (AP) — At Britain's BT Group, Ben Verwaayen was lauded for transforming the money-losing phone company into a profitable and aggressive leader in broadband Internet access.