IBT Staff Reporter

Having faced multiple hardware debacles ranging from Zune to Kin, Microsoft is out to prove naysayers false with its Xbox add-on Kinect, a motion sensor and voice recognition technology-based device that allows users to control games and movies with gestures and voice.

Nov 04, 2010

India's annual wholesale price index (WPI) for food articles declined to 12.85 percent for the week ended October 23, 2010, according to a government release on Thursday.

Nov 04, 2010

With our debt coming to maturity in the next ten years, which we cannot afford to pay, printing money seems to be our only option, which we feel is going to spur inflation, if not hyperinflation. We also feel if we adjusted gold for the inflationary highs of the 80's, gold bullion should already be at $2,200 an ounce, so we feel very strongly about a further drive up in gold over the next five years.

Nov 03, 2010

NASA turns to cloud computing to support its rovers Spirit and Opportunity as they scout the Martian terrain.

Nov 03, 2010

Less than half of the Asian companies listed on the Wall Street Journal’s Asia 200 Index have a corporate social media presence, said a new study by Burson-Marsteller, a public relations and communications firm.

Oct 30, 2010

App developers say obtaining private data is necessary for most apps to run, but what is done with that data is up to the app owner.

Oct 26, 2010

IBM Corp has introduced a new security initiative to make cloud computing safer.

Oct 21, 2010

China's Commerce Ministry denied the New York Times report stating the government has extended block on shipments of rare earth to include the United States and Europe, other than Japan, a Bloomberg report said, citing a faxed response from the Ministry.

Oct 20, 2010

President Barack Obama on Saturday urged changes in the U.S. tax code that would allow the government to collect taxes on companies that create foreign jobs.

Oct 16, 2010

Mobile and cloud computing technology will dominate enterprises as these two emerge as the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years, an IBM survey report said.

Oct 11, 2010

A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States edged up in September from a month ago and was 16 percent above the reading from a year ago.

Oct 07, 2010

The White House said on Thursday the administration is reviewing legislation that could make it more difficult for homeowners to challenge unjustified foreclosure actions.

Oct 07, 2010

The percentage of home sellers who cut their asking price fell in September, with price reductions smaller than the month before.

Oct 07, 2010

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was probing reports the nation's top mortgage lenders improperly evicted struggling borrowers from their homes as part of the devastating wave of foreclosures unleashed by the financial crisis.

Oct 07, 2010

The number of U.S. homes listed for sale in September rose from the previous month for the 9th straight month, according to data released by real estate brokerage ZipRealty.

Oct 07, 2010

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage did not cut corners to speed up the foreclosure process as some of its competitors have admitted to in recent weeks.

Oct 07, 2010

U.S. mortgage applications for home purchases rose for a second straight week, with demand at its highest level since early May as potential homeowners took advantage of record low interest rates

Oct 07, 2010

New research confirms that women plagued by morning sickness in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.

Oct 07, 2010

The three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry all developed new ways to make carbon atoms stick to one another -- a mundane-sounding process that in fact underlies the very basis of life.

Oct 07, 2010

Health regulators plan to spend millions of dollars to step up their scientific prowess in a move that officials say will help quickly get new treatments to patients and protect the public against possible health threats.

Oct 07, 2010

Republicans could keep their promises to stop healthcare reform even if they cannot repeal it, simply by blocking legislation needed to pay for it, one expert argued on Wednesday.

Oct 07, 2010

Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.

Oct 07, 2010

U.S. private employers unexpectedly shed jobs in September, reinforcing the belief that the U.S. Federal Reserve will embark on another round of monetary policy stimulus to support the economic recovery as early as next month.

Oct 06, 2010

Private employers unexpectedly cut 39,000 jobs in September after adding an upwardly revised 10,000 jobs in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

Oct 06, 2010

U.S. Treasury debt prices climbed on Wednesday, pushing benchmark note yields to the lowest since January 2009, after ADP Employer Services said private payrolls unexpectedly contracted in September.

Oct 06, 2010

California Democrats in the House of Representatives are calling for federal investigations into whether financial institutions broke any laws in their handling of foreclosures in the midst of the housing crisis.

Oct 06, 2010

Sending bar patrons home at earlier hours may lower the rate of late-night violence, hints a new study from Australia.

Oct 06, 2010

The Child Protective Services system in the United States has outlived its usefulness, and should be scrapped in favor of other approaches to protecting at-risk kids, according to a leading expert on injury prevention.

Oct 06, 2010

A massive Arizona campaign to get bystanders to do hands-only CPR if they see someone collapse appears to have paid off, state officials said on Tuesday.

Oct 06, 2010