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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion

Google Inc. is buying cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in cash. It's by far Google's biggest acquisition to date and a sign the online search leader is serious about expanding beyond its core Internet business.

(Published: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:18:46 PDT)

Jimmy Orr to lead L.A. Times' Web news operations

Jimmy Orr will become managing editor, online, replacing Sean Gallagher, who is relocating to London. Orr, who joined the Los Angeles Times in August as deputy editor, online, 'has made significant strides in improving the usability of the site,' Editor Russ Stanton says.

The Los Angeles Times has named Jimmy Orr as managing editor, online, to oversee its Web news operations and its expanding portfolio of digital and mobile news properties.

(Published: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:38:45 -0800)

The path to success is no longer labeled

Hunting for a record deal won't cut it anymore. Modern bands are focusing more on the Internet, looking for film soundtrack opportunities and piggy-backing album sales on designer T-shirts.

One in a series of occasional articles

(Published: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800)

Put e-waste in its right place

Old TVs, cellphones and other electronics don't belong in the trash; they should be recycled.

If all the Consumer Electronics Show coverage this week has you scheming to buy the new Google smart phone or a 3-D home theater system, you aren't alone. Americans have an insatiable appetite for the latest and greatest gadgets.

(Published: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800)

Man's battle vs. the rat goes high-tech

Mousetraps aren't just a snap anymore. Some try to kill humanely. One will even send an e-mail of a kill.

It's hard not to admire the common house mouse, Mus musculus . Upon setting up a new home, it neatly separates kitchen, bedroom and toilet areas. It has evolved to make its own vitamin C, and it's sensible enough to fear not only black lights (possibly because a mouse's urine has a fluorescent glow) but also rats (Musicide is common).

(Published: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800)

Arabic-language Internet is coming of age

Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com this year encourages start-ups and investors to work on online content and services for the world's 300 million Arabic speakers.

When Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury started Maktoob.com as an Arabic e-mail service 10 years ago, they had a modest office in Amman, Jordan, and little support from friends and family who could not imagine anyone using the Internet in Arabic.

(Published: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800)

Video game voice actors worry they're getting shortchanged

As their role expands, many worry that their pay isn't keeping pace with the lucrative industry's growth.

When Dave Wittenberg began his acting career at a community theater in Boston, he never imagined that one day he'd be making his living as a voice artist for video game characters, portraying the likes of Hades, Tweedledee and Jerry Seinfeld.

(Published: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800)

Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule

The A.J. Goddard carried miners in the Klondike Gold Rush, then sank in 1901. Tools were scattered on deck and tongs remained in a forge, said the team of archaeologists that discovered the wreck.

Underwater archaeologists said Monday that they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River stern-wheeler so well-preserved that researchers can document the last minutes of the five-man crew as well as their life aboard the primitive cargo-hauler.

(Published: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800)

Orange County Speaker repair business

The Sunda family and their Orange County Speaker repair business have been making beautiful music together since 1968.

The way we listen to music has changed dramatically in the last 15 years -- earbuds instead of headphones, digital tracks instead of cuts on vinyl. But the basic design of an audio speaker, says Eric Sunda of Orange County Speaker , is the same as it was a century ago.

(Published: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800)

Cloud Eye Control joins the traditional and futuristic

The trio draws on technology to shape a performance piece about a mystical quest for REDCAT.

(Published: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Archaeopteryx may have been more dinosaur than bird

Since Darwin's time, the feathered creature has been called the first bird, but a study of its 150-million-year-old fossils indicates it was far heavier and slower-maturing than modern birds.

Archaeopteryx, believed for 150 years to have been the first bird, was probably only a feathered dinosaur that had great difficulty getting off the ground when it lived 150 million years ago, researchers reported this week in the journal PLoS One.

(Published: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

2 Americans, Israeli share Nobel Prize in chemistry

They used X-ray crystallography to map the structure of a key cell component, a breakthrough that pharmaceutical companies are using to make more effective antibiotics.

Two Americans and an Israeli who mapped the precise structure of the ribosome -- the cell's critical protein-making factory -- won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday.

(Published: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Antitrust review of wireless carriers is urged

The AT&T-iPhone deal and other exclusive arrangements, as well as price increases, trouble several senators and consumer advocates. Verizon and AT&T have denied any coordinated actions.

Cellphone customers have long complained about exclusive deals between handset makers and wireless carriers -- many, for instance, won't buy the iPhone because it runs only on the AT&T network -- and federal authorities now are being prodded to take action.

(Published: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Video game players take a shot at being frugal

Fans are devoting more time to playing, but many are buying used titles or renting them, a study finds. The trend has been a boon to such retailers as GameStop and GameFly.

To video game publishers, Mark Weiner is both a dream come true and a nightmare.

(Published: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life

Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet.

The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isn't one of them.

(Published: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

U.S. launches formal investigation into Google's digital books settlement

The Justice Department says a proposed agreement with authors and publishers over Google's project to scan millions of books into a digital format raises antitrust concerns.

The Justice Department on Thursday said it had launched a formal antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement over the Google Inc. project to scan millions of books into a digital format.

(Published: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Hershey is closing its online sweets store

The nation's second-largest candy maker decided that 'the current business model is not sustainable.' The company is offering 25% off on all items until the website's closure on July 31.

The Internet just got a little less sweet.

(Published: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

What Madoff, Minkow and Ponzi now have in common

They've been inducted into the Con Artist Hall of Infamy, a website designed to be comprehensive educational tool to help readers understand and prevent white-collar crime, the site's founders say.

It's not the first time Bernard L. Madoff has had his name in lights this year.

(Published: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Pirate Bay to be acquired by Global Gaming Factory

The popular site for illegal music and movie downloads is going legit, but consumers and studios might not play along.

The world's most popular source for illegal music and movie downloading is going legit, but it's far from certain whether consumers or big media companies will embrace it.

(Published: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

China to delay requiring Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software

The plan to require the software in new computers sold in China had met with criticism that it violated free speech and was impractical. The government says only that firms need more time to comply.

China will delay a plan that requires all new computers sold in the country to carry Internet filtering software after a barrage of criticism from business groups, foreign officials and Chinese computer users.

(Published: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Apple 'very glad' to have Steve Jobs back

A spokesman says Jobs, who took a six-month medical leave, will work at the Cupertino, Calif., headquarters some days and from home on others.

He's back.

(Published: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

Broadcom raises offer for Emulex

Broadcom Corp. on Monday sweetened its offer to buy crosstown rival Emulex Corp. nearly 20% to $912 million, from its original bid of $764 million.

(Published: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:43:00 -0700)

Wi-Fi returning to airlines

Recession-battered carriers believe they'll get a modest revenue boost from fees for the wireless Internet service.

Googling in the air

(Published: Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700)

At 'Geek Heaven,' students are skilled in tech, if not talk

Students at Utah's Neumont University tend to be computer whizzes but social fizzles. The school is nudging them to unplug and connect.

On a rainy Saturday, Cameron Dolansky put on a metal-studded leather vest and a red tunic and headed to Neumont University's most raging weekend party.