Has Microsoft’s Xbox 360-based Xbox Live Community Games service been a success? That’s the question on everyone’s mind, following the anxiously awaited release of sales data to developers. The answer: it depends who you talk to. There have been successes and failures in the Community Games marketplace, with hard lessons being learned by both developers [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard is “studying” Google’s open-source software for mobile phones to use on its low-cost Netbooks. Read more …

Green technologies stand to get further support with the bill, particularly in renewable energy and efficiency, but global warming provisions face a tough political fight. Read more …

Imaging this. You’re a huge company whose name rhymes with Oogle. You release a phone that is sold both locked and unlocked, so that it can theoretically be used with any GSM-compliant carrier. The phone is also used, however unofficially, in many countries where tethering is perfectly permissible. You advertise your platform as open and [...]

NASA gears up for the May 12 launch of space shuttle Atlantis on a long-awaited five-spacewalk mission to give the Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life. Read more …