Google is introducing ad-supported video clips from YouTube — what it calls “video units” — to its AdSense platform, one of many steps in a strategy designed to glean a return on its massive investment in the video-sharing Web site. Google is working with select YouTube content partners, including TV Guide Broadband, Expert Village, Mondo[…]

The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to two scientists who discovered the technology that has made today’s tiny hard disk drives possible. Albert Fert of France and Peter Grünberg of Germany are the joint winners of the award for their independent discoveries of Giant Magnetoresistance, an effect in which very weak magnetic[…]

NBC Universal will purchase Oxygen Media, the operator of a cable channel aimed at women, for $925 million, a move that dovetails with its 2006 purchase of the iVillage online network for $600 million. The acquisition gives NBC a cable channel that reaches 74 million homes and offers advertisers a focused demographic, with more than[…]

As it prepares to meet its customers’ growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T’s board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation’s largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&T licenses covering 196 million people in 281 markets, including 72[…]

For some time, newspapers have tried to either keep things the same or forcibly invent new delivery mechanisms and technologies for their product. Instead, the reverse is happening, and the iPod touch and iPhone, with the Internet in the user’s pocket, have created the moment in time when the legacy newspaper is irrelevant, according to[…]

Sony’s PlayStation 3 price shakeout spread to its home territory in Japan Tuesday with a price cut on its 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 models, the company announced. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said it will make the latest 40 GB model available to Japanese gamers. The announcement comes less than a week[…]

British regulators on Monday banned a toned-down version of the violent video game “Manhunt 2,” saying the changes didn’t go far enough to alter the game’s “bleakness and callousness of tone.” The game’s maker called the decision “a setback for video games.” In June, Take-Two Interactive suspended plans to distribute the game — because it[…]

A big power company accused of spreading smog and acid rain across a dozen states agreed Tuesday to pay at least $4.6 billion to cut chemical emissions in what the government called the nation’s largest environmental settlement. The agreement with American Electric Power ends an eight-year legal battle over reducing smokestack pollution that drifted across[…]

Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope the stand-alone device will catch the fancy of users who shy away from computers. The always-on phone, however, requires a broadband Internet[…]

IBM and Google disclosed on an initiative the two technology heavyweights hope will help computer science students and researchers learn more about and gain experience in what has come to be known as “cloud computing.” Ultimately, the goal is to create a new generation of software developers able to write software that will fully take[…]