Everywhere you look, people are wired on caffeine or touting its benefits—or both. Tabloids run images of celebrities sipping Red Bull or toting Starbucks venti lattes; Dunkin’ Donuts ads feature a coffee-swilling Rachael Ray, who moves so fast she leaves tread marks on the floor. There’s no shortage of ways to get your caffeine fix. [...]

Consumer packaged goods that get the most US blog buzz tend to have a lot of ad money promoting them, according to a study published jointly by Nielsen BuzzMetrics and Nielsen BASES.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said Monday it is cutting prices on more than 16,000 items starting this week in a bid to turn around sales for the critical back-to-school season.

Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, a Japanese company said Monday it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger.

As we move towards the home entertainment systems of the future, we’ll no doubt be looking for more elaborate ways of interacting with these systems than the simple remote control. ‘Wave of the hand ‘ technology is a box that lets television viewers change channels, switch on the DVD player or simply switch off an [...]

Personal transportation is exactly what you make it – for some the term conjures up pictures of Segways, Toyota I-units and electric bicycles, while for others, no less than a few tons of metal and a V8 motor will do.

Zoey the Chihuahua may be among the smallest of Denise and Monty Long’s four dogs, but she’s the biggest hero in their Masonville home after saving their 1-year-old grandson from a rattlesnake.

At first, it seemed no more than a curious coincidence. Professor Klaus Heinemann, a researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency, was studying a collection of photographs his wife had taken at a gathering of spiritual healers when he noticed that many of them featured the same pale but clearly defined circle of light, like [...]

Currently standing at 1,680 feet, the still-uncompleted Burj Dubai tower in Dubai is now the world’s tallest building.

Over six in 10 US Web searchers do not trust their search engines with their information, according to a poll conducted by Hakia.com. The poll questioned 295 Web searchers who read top technology Web blogs from May through July of 2007.

China’s tax revenues jumped 30.6 percent in the first six months of the year, a state news agency reported Monday, reflecting the country’s booming economic growth.

A Chinese "elephant man" with a crippling 33 lb tumor drooping from his head and face — the biggest on record — will undergo life-threatening surgery on Tuesday to have it removed. (w/pic)

The US relays more spam than any other nation, with nearly a fifth of all spam passed along in the second quarter of 2007, according to Sophos. The firm scanned all spam messages received in its spam traps, and noted where the e-mail had traveled.

Good news for all those who are tired of frequently charging their mobiles. Researchers from Southampton University have developed a technology that will be able to harness your heartbeat to power your cell phone.