The 4G revolution in wireless won’t just make Web surfing on your mobile phone faster; it could help you say good-bye to traditional cable and DSL broadband. Clearwire’s 4G WiMax service, currently the only 4G wireless service on the market, offers average download speeds between 3Mbps and 6Mbps, which are comparable with many DSL and [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday officially opened the doors to its MIT Media Lab Complex, the school’s most famous interdisciplinary program. The new building, designed by architect Fumihiko Maki and his Maki and Associates firm, broke ground in 2007. But the Media Lab’s quest for expansion has actually been 12 years in [...]

Microsoft said on Friday that it plans to finalize the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to get a free upgrade to the new version.

Google has published a detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page. The result? It’s failing in a number of categories. On the bright side, the company says it plans to use this information to better its own SEO, and that to help [...]

For eager beavers who want a taste of Firefox to come, Mozilla issued a second preview release Wednesday of the browser. The software is based on version 1.9.3 of the Gecko browser engine that underlies Firefox. The current Firefox 3.6, and an update called Lorentz, are based on 1.9.2.

SAN FRANCISCO–In his keynote at the RSA security conference on Tuesday, Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, suggested that the security industry should follow the health care model of quarantining infected PCs to prevent them from being used to send spam and conduct denial-of-service attacks. In a follow-up interview afterward, Charney elaborated [...]

Apple’s plans for cloud computing go beyond music. The company’s representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers, two people familiar with the discussions told CNET. That’s in addition to streaming television shows and music.