It's been rumored for quite a while, but now the New York Times has gone and done it. It said in a statement this morning that it has a "new model" for its web site that means readers will have to pay - starting this time next year.

The GOP appears to be Tweeting its way to victory in the contentious Massachusetts Senate race between Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Skype has succesfully taken on Ma Bell by increasing its international calling minutes from 8 to 12 percent in 2010.

Anal retention isn't an attractive trait in human beings and so much less attractive in multinational corporations like Microsoft.

Gartner has predicted that consumers will shell out a whopping $6.2 billion on mobile applications and games in 2010.

Updated Segway has been sold to a British businessman, Jimi Heselden. There was a time when you couldn't shake a remote without having a puff piece on the sassy scooter fall out of the tv. Now, it may be just another strange reminder of a very strange decade.

Bill Veghte, a 19-year veteran at Microsoft, is quitting the company after another exec was chosen to run the Windows division.

The Customer Experience Index (CxPi) study for 2009 is down on iTunes, mobile phone carriers, and medical insurance.

A number of entrepreneurs have dismissed Google's recent threat to halt operations in China. 

Kodak has sued Apple and RIM over the unauthorized use of patented digital imaging technology in iPhones and camera-enabled BlackBerry devices.

Column Despite the fact that Intel paid AMD $1.25 billion at the end of last year to settle all that nasty, nasty antitrust stuff, it just won't keep going away.

The law firm behind the $2.2 billion Cybersitter case claims that servers in China are being mean to them.

Updated A response to the FTC investigation into the Intel Corporation has revealed that senior AMD executives - including Hector Ruiz and Henri Richard - didn't think much of their own products. Intel has also replied to an investigation initiated by New York State.

It’s been a long time in coming, but today AMD Fab spin-off, GlobalFoundries, announced it had finally finished integrating Chartered Semiconductor into one big fab family under the unified name and brand of GlobalFoundries.

A trial starts in San Francisco today, prompted by semiconductor design Rambus that threatens to drag in a long list of the rich and famous in Silicon Valley.

Google has threatened to halt operations in China after identifying a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" against its corporate infrastructure.

Porn is not immoral, but piracy is, was the firm message being delivered by Adult industry star Ron Jeremy as he spoke to TG Daily in Las Vegas.

One of the eerier, more big brotherish bits of tech on display at this year’s CES in Las Vegas was a "specimen" ID card from Samsung combining both RFID and OLED to produce biometric video of one’s floating, unsmiling head from all angles.

An upbeat report from Forrester suggests that 2010 will see a significant recovery in the level of spending in the tech industry.