Missing Registered Traveler Laptop Found. A laptop reported missing by a vendor of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program has been found, the vendor said.

Political Coverage That's All a-Twitter. DENVER, Aug. 25 -- John Dickerson, who covers the presidential campaign almost single-handedly for Slate, is a man of few words.

Polysilicon demand softening among IC makers, MEMC warn. Silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. Tuesday warned of "increased softness in demand" from semiconductor manufacturers, primarily due to inventory reduction initiatives.

Missing Laptop Keeps Firm From Registering New Fliers. The Transportation Security Administration suspended Verified Identity Pass from enrolling travelers in its pre-screening program after a laptop computer containing the records of 33,000 people went missing.

Micron exec's comment prompts speculation of Qimonda merger. A Micron Technology executive's comments hinting that the company might acquire a struggling competitor revived speculation that the chipmaker was considering buying Qimonda AG.

Technology That's Green From the Roots up. HP saw potential in used water bottles. Hewlett-Packard Co. found a way to turn those old bottles, along with other types of recyclable consumer plastics, into ink-jet printer cartridges.

Clever iPhone Tricks. I'm now the owner of an Apple iPhone 3G, after waiting out the first-generation model.

Final Fantasy XIII Demo Coming in March in Japan. Japanese game publisher Square Enix updated fans on several of its new titles at an event in Tokyo over the weekend. The roughly 1,500 fans who got to attend the closed-door "DK 3713" got a chance to see the latest trailers for a host of hot-games including three in the "Final Fantasy XIII"..

AOL Is Moving Closer To Jettisoning Dial-Up. AOL is finally in a position to shed the dial-up-access business that once offered tens of millions of people their first glance at the Internet.

Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? Engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should fix engineering problems.

Liberal group urges Dewhurst investigation. A campaign watchdog group is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.

MSI Offers Wind Netbook With Better Batteries. Micro-Star International will later this month offer a new version of its Wind mini-laptop with a far better, 6-cell battery, than the one currently on offer.

Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear. We'd be lost if we ever left the house without our arsenal of mobile tech gear, but we're also sick of being hamstrung by gadget makers who leave out important features or micromanage what we can--and can't--do with the products we buy from them. Fortunately, you don't necessarily have to settle for..

What Are Critical Issues With VoIP Service? VoIP services are rapidly becoming the bread and butter of enterprise voice networks, as roughly 72% of all enterprise voice lines shipped by vendors in 2007 were IP-capable. Now that companies are definitively moving away from the traditional Time-Division Multiplexing voice networks and..

Teradyne To Buy Eagle Test Systems. Teradyne Inc. Tuesday said it had agreed to buy Eagle Test Systems Inc., a maker of semiconductor test products, for about $360 million in cash.

The Specs That Matter and the Specs That Don't]. It usually goes like this: An ad in the paper catches your eye. It lists a few product specs and claims some special features, but that's about it. Still, the price seems okay. May as well pull out the wallet now, right? Wrong!.

Earnings Preview: TiVo Inc. NEW YORK -- TiVo Inc., a pioneer in digital video recorders, reports earnings for the fiscal second quarter, which ended on July 31, after the closing bell Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

Taking a Dip in The Online Stream. Of all European summer music festivals, the Bayreuth Festival may be the hardest ticket. Devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner, presented in the theater that he built, it receives so many requests for its two-month season that people wait for years to get in. Last Sunday saw the first performance..

One $12-Gaming-Console Per Child? Can a 20-year-old gaming console be the way to offer truly low-cost computing to Third World students?.

AOL Puts Drag on Time Warner Profit. AOL's expensive investment in building a leading online advertising network is not yet paying off for parent company Time Warner.