Saying it hasn’t been able to gain traction as a consumer user-generated content service, Raph Koster’s leading game design company is shutting down.

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For decades, NORAD has been providing real-time information on Christmas Eve about Santa’s whereabouts. These days, technology plays a bigger role than ever in bringing the program to the world.

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While most of the visual effects work on the film was done by New Zealand’s Weta Digital, George Lucas’ ILM got the call to step in late in the game and help get the job done.

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command has a mystique fueled in part by how little the public knows about its facilities. Now it’s offering a peek.

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Originally expected to be five-plus hours, the flight was shortened by bad weather. Still, Boeing calls the flight a success and says the Dreamliner performed as expected.

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After two years of delays, Boeing’s new plane finally got off the ground Tuesday. Its first flight was witnessed by thousands of company employees and excited fans.

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President Obama’s deputy CTO was a leading legal expert on virtual
worlds and tech patent issues before joining the administration.

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After years of taking a big loss on each console sold, Sony appears to be getting closer to breaking even on the design cost, according to iSuppli.

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Though industry sales for November fell 7.6 percent from the same month last year, total revenue was still good enough to make it the second-best November on record.

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q&a Beth Noveck, the Obama administration’s deputy chief technology officer, has been a principal contributor to the Open Government directive.

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The plan directs federal agencies to make important data available online, and to come up with plans for how to achieve openness, transparency, and participation.

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New application from Entertainment Software Ratings Board provides full summaries of more than 2,500 video games right at parents’ fingertips.

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