Apple is likely introducing a family of new iPods (and maybe a revamped Apple TV) today at its annual music event in San Francisco. Refresh this post for live updates as the event unravels.

Swisscom AG is weighing its options on buying out minority interests in FastWeb SpA and hasn’t decided yet, Carsten Roetz, a spokesman for the Swiss company, said in comments e-mailed to Bloomberg.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will double their Internet users to 1.2 billion by 2015, fueling growth at media companies and phone carriers, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc.

Fifteen months after Air France Flight 447 went down over the Atlantic, there's still no sign of the plane's black box recorders. That has the industry wondering if it's time to update the technology with a satellite-based system.

On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between the two cities.

Wind farms are popping up in rural areas that can't use that electricity — could the promising form of alt energy be labeled another boondoggle for farm states?

A bungee jungle gym! A 10-g merry-go-round! A rocket swing! It's 2024, and this is no ordinary playground (just make sure you sign the waiver on your way in).

As all the baby boomers age (dare we say it!?), they must be considering what retirement homes will look like a decade from now. But what about many decades from now? Will nursebots and flying Rascals be a part of the plan?

An astronaut took over 85 time-lapse videos of Earth from the International Space Station. We have some of the best here, including an aurora and a satellite launch.

Telecom Italia SpA, Italy’s biggest phone company, may be required to pay an additional 429 million euros ($546 million) in relation to a tax probe involving its Sparkle unit, according to its half-year report.

Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The world's top online retailer has approached Time Warner and other studios to start an online video subscription service that would vie with Netflix, Hulu and Apple

Research In Motion Ltd.’s concession in giving Indian authorities access to BlackBerry e-mail and instant-messenger correspondence means it’s likely to do the same for other governments, analysts said.

Motorola Inc., the communications- equipment maker that’s splitting in two, said it plans to put $3.5 billion into the mobile-phone and set-top box units that will be spun off together in the first quarter of next year.

Breaking with a longstanding but unstated policy, Apple has decided to publish a live video stream of Wednesday's press conference. The stream will be optimized for Mac, iPhone and iPad users only.

Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium in the atmospheres of two hot Jupiters more than 190 light-years from Earth.

The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now-solid Antarctic ice sheet — 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick — points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago. The new evidence adds to geologic clues indicating the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has collapsed at least once in the last million years, and could do so again in a warmer climate. The complete collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise global sea level by 11 to 16 feet.

The news-aggregation service founded by Kevin Rose named Amazon veteran Matt Williams as a successor to Jay Adelson

General Motors provides a glimpse at how it might market the Chevrolet Volt against other EVs.