A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan. (See footage of the robot in action and other projects on YouTube.) The robot, called “Rosemary,” is about the size of a…

The seven-member MTSU Raider Robotics team has been competing this week against 38 U.S. and 20 international undergraduate and graduate student teams in the third annual Lunabotics Mining A link to this page will be included in your message

HTC One X Android phone by HTC Corp.$199.99 at att.com Because Google Inc. gives away its Android software for smartphones, there are a lot of mediocre Android smartphones. It seems like everybody with a soldering iron has slapped something together, often with unimpressive results. But when a company like…

NEW YORK Facebook Inc.’s bungled stock-market debut made it clear that big money still rules Wall Street. But this time, the small money got a look at how Wall Street really works and that could spell trouble for the financial industry. Millions of small investors have trimmed their investments…

Belly, the Chicago-based loyalty platform which just closed its $10 million Series B from Andreessen Horowitz earlier this month, is today announcing a pretty significant milestone: its 1 millionth check-in. The startup allows customers to check-in to a location using a physical loyalty card or mobile app which they scan The company…

The International Olympic Committee announced that the official Olympic badge and check-in locations are now available on foursquare, the mobile, location-based social networking site. This integration extends the IOC’s commitment to making social media an integral part of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which take place July 27 August (PRWEB) May

On Friday Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) announced that its London-based head of global sales has stepped down. Patrick Spense is just the latest management change at the embattled smartphone maker, which has seen its market share erode in recent years. According to a company spokesperson, Spence is leaving RIM…

Computerworld – With the closing of Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked. While Android has taken the consumer market by storm — the OS runs 59% of smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 — IT IT managers…

Toshiba has confirmed that it will no longer be offering new netbook models in the US. The news isn’t too surprising given the forthcoming onslaught of Ultrabooks, but it does further confirm the grim outlook for the ill-fated netbook market. Dell and Lenovo are already officially out of the netbook…

Don’t expect any big surprises out of Dell’s first Windows 8 tablet aimed at enterprise users. The unreleased tablet reportedly has a 10.1-inch display with 1366-by-768 resolution, an Intel Clover Trail Atom dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, up to 128 GB of solid state storage, a 2-megapixel camera in front The specs…