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Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. The consortium announced Wednesday is an...

General Motors Corp. will introduce a more powerful version of its "mild" hybrid system in 2010 with lithium-ion batteries and offer it globally. GM's new system, announced last week at the Geneva Motor Show, is based on the one offered in the...

For much of the past decade, the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been dominated by the industry's efforts to put cram pixels onto ever-larger TV screens. The initial "high definition" sets, which made their debut in 1998,...

For a decade, Dorthe Matowitz worked as a piping inspector at nuclear power plants, but tired of all the travel and switched occupations three years ago. She is now in demand by a revitalized nuclear power industry scrambling for skilled help. "They'...

The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing's most...

One in an occasional series about the Boston Red Sox and their 86-year quest to win it all. Studies show that a sign disparaging a member of the Yankees can draw an ecstatic crowd on a sidewalk outside Fenway Park. Thus we had a test case for the Boston...

Pictures of products danced in his head. There was an Apple iPod, then a black Aeron chair. A coffeepot by Capresso and a washing machine by Dyson. Christian Dior followed by Versace, Oakley, Honda, Evian and Louis Vuitton. Each icon of commercial...

I WANT my DTV. But the promise of high-definition television, which was to have been fulfilled by the millennium plus one or two years, is still a promise, and its future is more clouded now than at any time in its past. After years of preparation and...

For most of the two years since the Internet bubble burst and knocked the technology industry into its worst slump, everyone from unemployed programmers to disaffected investors has looked hopefully to 2003 for a turnaround. Now, with the new year...