New York, Dec. 26: This has been a great year for the next new electronic thing. The iPad, new iPhone, the Nexus S, HTC Evo and other Android phones, the Kindle 3 and Microsoft’s Kinect caught the eye

New york, Dec. 24: Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the US government has allowed its companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklist

Dec. 23: The Obama administration filed a case against China with the World Trade Organization on Wednesday, siding with an American labour union, the United Steelworkers, in accusing Beijing of illeg

New York, Dec. 21: The state ethics commission imposed a record fine of $62,125 on the New York Governor, Mr David A. Paterson, on Monday for soliciting and accepting free tickets to the 2009 World Se

San Francisco, Dec. 21: Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using e-mail.

Young people, of course, much prefer

New York, Dec. 19: When it comes to Christmas trees, Americans increasingly prefer plastic pines over the real thing. Sales of fake trees are expected to approach 13 million this year, a record, as q

BERLIN, Dec. 17: In the latest salvo of a protracted legal battle, Nokia sued Apple on Thursday in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that the US technology company used 13 of its patents,

New York, Dec. 6: When Mr Jacob Lewis helped create the beta version of the website Figment with Ms Dana Goodyear, a staff writer at The New Yorker, Mr Lewis envisioned it as a sort of literary Facebo

Beverly Hills, California, Dec. 5: Ms Michelle Pont and her husband amassed millions of dollars in properties and investments from a freight-hauling business that they started with a single stake-bed

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30: With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises, American and South Korean officials early this year secretly began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by