NASA joined with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the World Bank Dec. 3-4 to bring together computer experts looking for new approaches to disaster relief challenges.

Hello Kitty lovers rejoice -- Hello Kitty Seasons is available in North America.

Visa and Visa Europe have announced the commercial availability of mobile contactless payments enabled by DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD solution.

LivingSocial has secured a $175 million investment from Amazon.

WikiLeaks, the notorious whistleblower website, has been kicked off Amazon.com’s U.S. servers. This comes on the heels of the organization moving its operations only a day ago.

Motorola today announced that it has signed a agreement to acquire 4Home, a developer of software and services platform that bridges the gap between the consumer and the devices that deliver services and information to connected home users.

AOL has acquired email prioritization app, Unblab. The acquisition was made public on Unblab's website.

iGotITtoo, a non-profit organization working to empower underserved communities by providing training in fundamental computer skills and education regarding social services, has been awarded today $250,000 by Google to expand their work across New York City.

Google Earth has just released Google Earth 6 into its interactive digital atlas. Now you can explore your childhood home, visit foreign countries or scope out your next vacation spot with greater realism.

Blekko, the new search engine that is using human curation to eliminate spam from search results, has unveiled a new holiday shopping slashtag on Cyber Monday.

Amazon.com has just released a new price comparison app for the iPhone that provides customers with a dead simple way to compare in-store prices against Amazon.com and other online merchants.

Maingear, the custom PC manufacturer, has just added two new high performance notebook options to their product line, the Alt-15 and Alt-17.

Federated Media's acquisition of Foodbuzz creates the largest independent food blogging network.

Groupon is announcing a distribution partnership with Yahoo! to bring local Groupon deals to Yahoo! users on a global scale.

Gmail has garnered the reputation of being one of the most popular email providers. A report from the web analysis company, Compete, paints a very different picture.

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue announced today that Facebook will locate a multi-million dollar data center near Forest City, North Carolina.

It's an end of an era for one of the remaining search giants of the late 90's, Ask.com.

Groupon has debuted a mobile redemption-tracking app. Available as a free download in the Android Marketplace and soon in the Apple App Store, the Merchant App allows staff to scan and verify Groupons using their device’s camera.

Mobile advertising is on the rise, with recent research suggesting the US market will spend $5 billion on advertising on mobile devices by 2015.

Twitter has made a variety of improvements to its Android app, bringing it up to par with its popular iPhone app.

Amazon is expanding the ways users can reach out and touch someone. The company today announced a new method for sending Amazon.com Gift Cards to friends on Facebook.

Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider Boomi to help strengthen its cloud computing solution.

Disney is releasing a mobile app sure to please the little ones in your life.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that China Mobile has become a Gold member, marking the first time a Chinese enterprise has joined The Linux Foundation.

Your Twitter stream is going to be changing shortly, as Twitter begins rolling out its plan to place Promoted Tweets inside its users' stream.

Owners of 2011 Chevrolet cars are in for a treat. Drivers can now access their vehicle information and OnStar services right from their smart phones.

Yamaha has introduced the BD-A1000 Blu-ray Disc Player. The BD-A1000 features content playback from Netflix, Blockbuster and YouTube Internet video streaming, bringing a greater video experience to your Blu-ray.

It seems hard to believe, but of all the major browsers, Internet Explorer 9 came out as the clear winner on HTML5 compliance.

Blekko officially opened its public beta, launching a new search engine that brings large-scale human curation to web search.

Sagem Wireless, a manufacturer in the design and development of customized connected devices and services, has launched Binder – an ultra-light eReader.

If you're dying to get your hands on a Galaxy Tab, it's available for preorder from Amazon for $699.

An official Wordpress app for Nokia is now available in Nokia’s Ovi Store for mobile apps.

As part of a plan to modernize and expand its fleet of equipment, Amtrak is buying 70 new electric locomotives for its Northeast intercity passenger rail services.

Twitter has recently released a Twitter client for Windows phones.