Google Maps Gets Bike Lanes/Directions Just In Time for SpringGoogle addedbike lanes andbicycle directions to Google Maps today, allowing you to find routes that aren’t too hilly or congested. It’s pretty awesome!Bike functionality is available for o… more »

Hewlett-Packard's upcoming slate PC boasts one clear advantage over Apple's iPad by supporting Adobe Flash, an HP executive suggests in a corporate blog posting. Apple is shunning Flash, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested is buggy, for its upcoming dev… more »

 CodePlex Foundation has announced the expansion of its Board of Directors. The CodePlex Foundation describes itself as "a not-for-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and… more »

CBS has unveiled an upgraded version of its CBS Sports: NCAA March Madness on Demand app for the iPhone with a key feature: 3G support. (Hey, if Sling Media can finally add it...) MediaPost reports that the new app offers live streaming video and West… more »

Looks like a certain major U.S. carrier got a little tired of Sprint's ubiquitous NFL Mobile Live app. Verizon Wireless just announced a multi-pronged push to deliver NFL-related content on the carrier's devices. The wide-ranging four-year agreement w… more »

Sony said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms. The Japanese electronics giant, known for its PlayStation 3 game consoles a… more »

IDC released its 2010 predictions for the PC market, and the analyst firm says virtual desktops, WiMax and a return to desktops are in the forecast. Last year’s economic lag directly caused PC prices to take a nosedive. However, IDC thinks the average… more »

Intel is looking into reports of about 300 fake Core i7-920 processors being received by Newegg in a batch of 2,000 chips the online retailer had received. Newegg officials suggest that the problem shipments were demo chips, while Intel officials imply t… more »

Jeremy Bray received an e-mail message this morning with an unwelcome surprise: Amazon.com told him it had canceled its affiliate program, which provides small payments for referring customers, for everyone in the state of Colorado. The reason? A state… more »

Microsoft will release the full version of Office 2010 to businesses May 12, around a month before consumers are given the newest version of the company's productivity suite. A Microsoft executive also indicated in a blog posting that Office 2010, ShareP… more »

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right -- with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China -- and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. Technology  |  Media   A po… more »

Some 25.1 million people accessing Facebook via a mobile Web browser, a growth of 112 percent from January 2009, according to new research from comScore. Twitter use via a mobile browser grew 347 percent to 4.7 million users. MySpace lured 11.4 million u… more »

A dream of a European-style common market for North America, with borderless trade and harmonized standards will, for the foreseeable future, just have to dream on. An indication of just how poor the state of free trade is came in early February. After m… more »

Barry Moon and Gill Haythornthwaite's home in the Cumbrian fells on the outskirts of the village of Askam in Furness Photo: NNP The seven turbines have sparked the most complaints about wind farms in the country. Residents complain of a noise like so… more »

Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly throughout 2010 that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some controversy between the Chinese government and Google earlier in th… more »