Rock Band studio Harmonix is no longer a Viacom company. The Cambridge, Massachusetts developer has been sold to… well itself. With the help of investment firm Columbus Nova, Harmonix is now owned by Harmonix-SBE Holdings LLC. Viacom announced the sale in a brief press release this morning without...

Sales of Microsoft’s three-license Windows 7 Family Pack will end next week, according to online retailer Amazon. The Family Pack gives consumers three upgrade licenses from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium. When it started selling the $150 package in early October, Microsoft said it would...

For the U.S. Navy, the age of steam may finally be almost over. Over the weekend, the Navy made its first-ever launch of an aircraft, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, using a cutting-edge electromagnetic apparatus. The test operation of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a significant, though...

These half-dozen tablets offer some idea of the different sizes and focuses of new models that are popping up in this rapidly evolving category. When most people think of a tablet, they think of the pater familias of the current generation, the 9.6-by-7.5-by-0.5-inch Apple iPad. But today, with dimensions...

Although we knew T-Mobile will get to sell the Motorola Defy, up until now we didn’t have the exact release date. The Deutsche Telekom-owned operator helped all of us, tweeting the day and price – and it’s set on November 3rd, when interested folks will be able to grab the rugged Android smartphone...