In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday.

Alongside Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait," lots of pop-up windows and videos incorporating real street scenes from Google Street View are among the highlights of this crafty Chrome demo.

Sony has officially unveiled three new e-readers, the Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350, Reader Touch Edition PRS-650, and an updated Reader Daily Edition. They all feature next-generation touch-screen E-ink technology.

Woman in suburban Detroit was very excited to share her views about a trial. The defendant, she believed, was guilty of resisting arrest. So she posted her view to her friends and, depending on her privacy settings, quite a few other people too.

The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: "Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon." That line, from Kevin Rose, the entrepreneur who founded content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to change fundamentally.

Microsoft Russia's press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo that seem to be connected to the coming IE 9 beta. (The site has since pulled their post, but I grabbed the information and screen shot in the nick of time.)

Google's on a roll lately, releasing various new products and features for a wide range of their products. The latest one that's incoming is a feature that will allow you to make phone calls from within Gmail.

The European Space Agency battles to recover its Goce gravity satellite which has been struck by a second computer glitch, blocking data delivery to Earth.

The hunt for aliens should allow for the fact that ETs may be thinking machines rather than like us, a leading researcher says.

A maternal ancestor to all living humans called mitochondrial Eve likely lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged, a new review study confirms.