Need more proof that the recession is real? An onslaught of grim unemployment and layoff reports yesterday should dispel any lingering doubts.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp , the world's No. 2 maker of NAND flash memory, will halt chip production at two plants for nine days due to weak demand, in its first output break in seven years, broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.

Babelingo Travel Phrases ($6) is a language translation tool for the iphone and iPod touch that contains more than 300 useful phrases and words. Babelingo can translate to and from 10 different languages, including English, Spanish, French and Japanese. Each category, phrase, word and screen can be presented in any of the supported languages. Users may add commonly used phrases to a favorites list...

NASA says technical difficulties will delay launch of the costly Mars Science Laboratory until 2011.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers.

Blu-ray faces strapped consumers worried about investing in a new format, a new library and still-pricey players, but it's the ...

Marigo Holdings debuts CardCaller , an iphone application that enables users to purchase, manage and use calling cards to phone people world wide. Designed to look and work similar to iPhones existing phone application, users can input the 1-800 number and pin code from the calling card into the phone where it will be stored for continues use. CardCaller also provides features including creating ...

Washington - For years, the biggest bottleneck in personal computers has not been processor speed, memory, or video cards. It's been the hard drive. Thanks to the emergence of solid state disks (SSD), that's about to change. Instead of spinning platt...

Washington - NASA's next Mars rover mission will be delayed by two years until 2011 to allow scientists more time to test hardware on key parts of the craft, the US space agency said Thursday in Washington. The Mars Science Laboratory is designed to ...

This has been a banner year for kids' video games with game developers competing to be the most innovative. Here are some of ...