West coast utilities are charging ahead with solar plants, but other regions could surpass them soon, according to the Solar Electric Power Association.

Yahoo Music comes under criticism for deciding to stop supporting DRM keys. The Electronic Frontier Foundation should have learned from Microsoft's mistakes.

Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, sends list of precautionary measures to faculty and staff.

The company's out with a new initiative designed to expand its popularity and smooth relations with developers. Rafe Needleman and I got together to take stock of the coming changes.

Speaking to financial analysts, Chris Liddell concedes online business hasn't shown much tangible progress, but says Yahoo deal making less and less sense.

Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie used his speech on Thursday to show off a robot that can perform basic tasks.

Facebook wants to be the center of its members' lives in the same way that MyYahoo became the home base for millions of users over the last decade.

The man who acknowledges spying on TorrentSpy for the MPAA, also promised to obtain information on the Pirate Bay, court documents show.

Microsoft puts on its game face, discovering the real Carl Icahn, and Facebook makes nice to developers. Now what?

In a webinar on Thursday, the researcher finally discloses specifics about his DNS cache poisoning flaw, and cites statistics on the number of systems that are patched.

Company buys Datallegro, which Microsoft says will help the company compete with Oracle at the high-end of the market.

Windows business head Bill Veghte says the new operating system, "tracking very, very well," is still scheduled to ship within three years of Vista's January 2008 debut.

The troubled wireless operator is selling most of its cell phone towers for $670 million in an effort to help reduce its debt and shed nonstrategic assets.

Software company will deliver an API that Facebook can use to integrate both Microsoft's Web search and its paid search results into the social network's U.S. site.

The 10-megawatt solar farm being built in Nevada would be the largest thin-film installation in North America.

At Microsoft's annual meeting for financial analysts today, Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach spent a lot of time talking about mobile phones and mentioned all of the other businesses he oversees, save one.

Hasbro launched an official version of its Facebook Scrabble application a few weeks ago. Now it wants the far more popular Scrabulous knockoff deleted.

Who's in line to become Kevin Johnson's replacement? The answer may go down as one of software giant's most important decisions.

Tools and patches are available to see whether your home Internet connection is vulnerable to Dan Kaminsky's DNS flaw.

The disappearance of a large number of followers from Twitter users' accounts has caused a big uproar in the blogosphere.

Less than 10 percent of 50,000 companies surveyed are using Vista, according to Forrester Research, which calls the operating system "New Coke."

In a rare slap at an Apple product, the Journal's Walt Mossberg suggests people avoid the MobileMe service, even before taking into account the e-mail outages of its first few weeks.

A deal would have boosted the company's search query volume, something Microsoft knows it needs.

The enthusiast PC line will be merged into the company's consumer line, Voodoo's co-founder says.

A roundup of coverage from CNET News and elsewhere from the Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose, Calif.

CEO Steve Ballmer again tries to make the case that Microsoft's online investments represent just a fraction of its operating income. But when will it start to pay off? Ballmer says he can't say.

From scooters to off-road trucks to utility vehicles, all sorts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are on display at the Plug-In 2008 car conference in San Jose, Calif. CNET News reporter Kara Tsuboi stops by the world's first showcase of its kind to see what's new in the industry.