Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.

Cap Gemini SA will buy a 55 percent stake in Brazilian information technology provider CPM Braxis as it seeks to serve more corporate clients in the South American country.

India said it will ask Research In Motion Ltd., Google Inc., Skype Technologies SA and other service providers to set up servers locally and enable security agencies to monitor mail traffic.

Global semiconductor sales are predicted to grow by 31.5 percent to $300 billion this year, researcher Gartner said in an e-mailed statement today.

In 1983 Nintendo released the Famicon console. Now 26 years later we tear it apart to see what makes it tick.

The new Apple TV fits into Steve Jobs' entertainment vision

There's a sign of hope for frustrated Google Apps users who feel left out of getting all the cool toys regular Google users get: Google is inviting select users this week to test out Apps with all the bells and whistles.

Funai Electric Co., a Japanese maker of audio-visual equipment, plans to increase production capacity for liquid-crystal display televisions by 54 percent at its factory in Thailand amid rising global demand.

Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren't sure where to begin? This introductory sci-fi literature syllabus is just for you.

Three of the 10 biggest Cogent Inc. investors said a 3M Co. bid for the fingerprint-identification systems maker, supported by its chief executive officer and largest shareholder, is too low.

A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson's latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution.

We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring.

While it can take a mere one or two strokes to hit the green, every golfer knows the torture of a four or five-putt adventure once they get there. So whether you're trying to get your golf game back on track or trying to become a Putt-putt superstar, head for the practice green.

There's a lot to say about the new Apple TV that Steve Jobs presented today. But I'm not going to talk about the tiny little box. I'm not going to talk about your TV, either ... much. Instead, I’m going to talk about that remote.

Apple, building on its dominance in the music industry, unveiled new iPod media players, added social-networking features to its iTunes software and introduced a movie-rental service

Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network — one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of Ping, a music-centered community that exists only within iTunes, they are probably right — and then some.

EpicMix, a new RFID-based app for skiers, combines performance tracking with real-time, location-based social networking functionality. (Think Nike+ meets Foursquare.) It'll go live at several Colorado ski resorts in November, and we've got an early look.

Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, may increase its quarterly dividend by the smallest amount in four years tomorrow amid slowing sales growth, according to a Bloomberg estimate.

Federal regulators are putting off efforts to regain authority over the nation’s internet providers while they seek renewed public input on net neutrality.

Apple has refreshed its family of iPod products. The iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle all received some compelling makeovers that should help Apple stay in the lead in the portable media-player market.