KIMA - News - Tech http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech RSS Feed for KIMA - News - Technology en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:40:23 GMT Review site Yelp under fire in business' lawsuits http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88562132.html Yelp is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed. Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88561992.html The man behind the massively popular video game franchise is working hard to turn Nintendo Co.'s brand of handheld consoles into educational aids and teaching tools. Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88561867.html Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe. Microsoft rival: browser downloads double http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88561762.html Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges. Man accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88413547.html A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday. Invisibility cloak takes a step forward http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88449992.html From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality. Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88272452.html A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information. Microsoft Bing nabs more Web searches in February http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88199857.html After launching its redesigned search site last June, the company waged a major marketing campaign to position Bing as better than Google or No. 2 Yahoo for shopping, booking travel and searching for medical information. Google phone now works on iPhone's wireless system http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/88199807.html Google Inc. has upgraded its Nexus One phone so it works on the same high-speed wireless network as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, putting the increasingly antagonistic rivals on an even more direct collision course in the mobile market. Germs may blow the whistle on crooks one day http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/87802022.html Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away.