Southwest Windpower revealed its most recent and most efficient wind turbine, which could lead to thousands of windpowered homes and businesses across the world. The Skystream 600, the smallest most efficient turbine to date, was unveiled at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Southwest Windpower, the world’s leading supplier of distributed wind generators, received [...]

Motorola has unveiled the first product to use the new operating system from Google known as Honeycomb, which is meant to be used on touch-screen tablet computers. Like the iPad from Apple, the Motorola Xoom features a 10-inch screen that works completely by touch. Xoom also has front-rear cameras, camcorder and Adobe Flash enabled. The [...]

The new Toshiba Tablet was formally unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show is Las Vegas this week. It is the first is a series of tablet computers coming from the company. As Philip Osaka, director of product marketing at Toshiba, put it, “We feel it will be the start of a family of products.” Many [...]

National electronics store chain BestBuy is set to start a Buy Back program that is expected to help customers from constantly paying up to get the latest and greatest consumer electronics. Bring in the old technology and turn it into something new. Under the plan, consumers who pay an additional fee when they purchase an [...]

Vizio Inc., a leading manufacturer of flat-screen televisions, is set to reveal a smartphone and tablet computer at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new products continue Vizio’s expansion into other areas of consumer electronics. The company is mostly known as a maker of low-cost television sets that retail for as low [...]

Two technology giants, Google and Apple, have ramped up efforts to win loyalty from publishers and as they compete to become the leading distributor of magazines and newspapers to portable, electronic devices like tablet computers. Google is reportedly trying to secure deals with publishers for a new digital newsstand for devices that run on its [...]

Apple’s FaceTime, the program that lets users make video calls from their iPhone and other products, had made video-calling easy and portable for people with the right equipment. Now Skype, the popular online video communication service, plans to get into the mobile video calling business. Skype announced recently it will expand to include service to [...]

Nintendo Co. has put out a warning to parents letting them know children under the age of 6 should not play with the forthcoming 3DS, a handheld electronic video gaming console that utilizes 3D technology but does not require special glasses. The company said there were concerns that watching the 3D screens could potentially damage [...]

Technology giant IBM unveiled five innovations that have the potential to change life, as we know it over the next five years. The list of innovations includes the abilities to beam up your friends in 3-D, batteries that will breathe air to power our devices, personalized commutes, computers that will help energize our cities and [...]

NASA has given a new information technology contract worth up to $2.5 billion to Hewlett-Packard’s Enterprise Services division. The contract means Hewlett-Packard will deliver and maintain personal computing equipment, software, mobile technology needs and other services for NASA end users. “It’s basically everything that’s plugged into the wall that’s IT,” NASA spokesman Michael Sweigart said. [...]

Apple products dominated sales in nearly all applicable categories this holiday season on Amazon.com, but Amazon’s own Kindle e-reader broke the records. As of Christmas Day, Apple products were the best-sellers in every category Apple serves, except television and video. Despite being the television item most often placed on Amazon wish lists, the Apple TV [...]

In only six weeks, the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops has created an enormous amount of military video gamers and generated more than $1 billion in sales for maker Activision Publications. The game has also set online user records that show how it has quickly become a leading global entertainment phenomenon. Since the [...]