Company announces Thursday that it will offer mobile device users inventory checks on local stores, allowing them to see if products are available.

Mozilla Messaging updates the Lanikai build of Thunderbird to beta status. Notably, Thunderbird 3.1 beta 1 shares the same Gecko engine as Firefox 3.6.

A Verizon Wireless exec told the Wall Street Journal that it will have a 4G wireless handset on the market within three to six months of launching its 4G LTE network.

CNET Reviews has overhauled its Blu-ray testing for 2010 by adding inline charts, more systematic image quality tests and a detailed spreadsheet for easy comparison.

Sanyo's new eneloop hybrid bicycle recharges while it's being pedaled; Iwatani showed off a fuel cell bike that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell stack.

Brain scans identify which short film clip volunteers were remembering, which could help researchers better understand memory recording patterns and, ultimately, dementia.

Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers that haven't may have their reasons, but today Mozilla starts to pressure them aggressively.

Sony's PlayStation 3 motion controller finally gets a name. We also talk Bill Gates' drop into being merely the world's second-richest man, and the results of Pink Floyd's court battles with EMI.

JetBlue said it had 1,000 free tickets to give away to New Yorkers who showed up at a location broadcasted via Twitter. The only complaint so far: Couldn't there be more?

Share of U.S. search requests for Microsoft Bing rises to 11.5 percent, though Google still leads the pack with 65.5 percent of all search queries, says ComScore.

A push by Net neutrality advocates to reclassify ISPs as telecommunications providers has dangerous implications, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.

Google's open-source approach to Android is a key reason that it is quickly gaining ground on closed-source competitors like Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry. But challenges remain.

Production and assembly factory producing 1,100-megawatts worth of turbines annually will create 1,000 permanent jobs for the state.

SunEdison's 72-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant finds a home in Italy's Veneto region.

Hewlett-Packard is ready to go with a new series of ads intended to jazz up its image among businesses, consumers, and even its own employees.

Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion.

Clues in McAfee blog post led researcher to existing exploit code which he analyzed to write his own code.

Donkey Kong, the arcade game that dates back to the '80s and has launched numerous Mario related spin-offs, has a new world record high score.

The audio specialist is bringing its 3D Axon technology to video game consoles as well as the Mac to enable a bunch of neat new voice chat tricks for console games.

At GDC 2010, InstantAction follows rival OnLive in announcing a service that lets gamers quickly rent or buy console games over the Internet.

Opera won't be lobbying for a browser choice screen to be implemented in Asia-Pacific, while Mozilla's Open to Choice campaign stays within Europe.

Target starts a coupon program for mobile phones, Google launches a fancy new RSS reader, and Sex.com is up for grabs.

Britian's high court sides with famed British rock band and tells EMI no more selling individual song downloads without Pink Floyd's permission.

The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.

Microsoft's Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.

Google's phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.

One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can "tag" with anything.

Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding.

The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application

Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.