Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week
NEW YORK (AP) -- Want to be the first one on your block with a 3-D television? It will cost you about $3,000....

Google opens Web store for business applications
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet....

MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly....

Google adds bike lane with latest mapping feature
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option....

On latest guitar game, players strum real strings
NEW YORK (AP) -- An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument....

`Nobel of computing' goes to early PC designer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer....

Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
GENEVA (AP) -- A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba....

Mandatory insurance proposed for UK dogs
LONDON (AP) -- A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips and take out insurance for their pets....

Stay tuned: More fee disputes over local TV coming
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups....

Cisco to introduce new heavy-duty Internet router
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most trafficked parts of the Internet backbone....

Outside science academies to review warming panel
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports....

NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month....

Pioneering Mass. robot lost at sea off Chile coast
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- A pioneering deep-sea robot made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of Chile....

As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit....

GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup....

Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states....

Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot....

Northwest at risk of megaquake like one in Chile
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile....

Energy groups relieved sage grouse won't be listed
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won't list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West's wind energy and oil and gas industries....

Methane seen as growing climate risk
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected....