Reports are out that English may have to share with other languages in Web addresses, giving way for urls to appear in simplified Chinese characters, Russian Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Hebrew, among others.

The Wi-Fi Alliance is finishing a 'Wi-Fi Direct' specification that will allow users to to communicate among devices with others without the need to route the data thru a wireless operator.

The Nobel prize for peace awarded to president Obama is a sign of the times and in spirit of Alfred Nobel's wishes.

Ray Kurzweil is a fascinating man. That's because he states the future as it is.

It was bound to happen: our garbage is being watched and traced.

A New York Times article reported that Steve Jobs is back in the saddle at Apple, thin but energetic, after his liver transplant.

According to a survey of opinions from over 13,000 business executives with economic statistics and government regulations, Switzerland has overtaken the U.S. as the most competitive economy.

Michelle Khine, a founder of Shrink Nanotechnologies' nanofabrication platform, used Shrinky Dinks material to create a fully microfluidic device without the need for a clean room and sensitive and expensive equipment.

For that feat Khine was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 global innovators under the age of 35.

CSNE is determined to get the mega word out about its nano world. It's placing a display at the Rensselaer Rail Station, the 9th-busiest station in the country, serving more than 830,000 people last year, to promote nanotech research at CSNE.

On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, Walter Cronkite, the CBS journalist and anchor of the Evening News just said: "Oh, boy!"