Industry

TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion

The deal is expected to close in six to nine months

FCC gets temporary reprieve from net neutrality lawsuits

DC Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses Verizon, MetroPCS suit as 'premature'

iPad 2 supplies creep closer to demand

Apple now promises to ship new tablet within two to three weeks

IBM: Watson could boost confidence of financial industry

Developer sidesteps carriers, offers Windows Phone 7 update tool

Taps into Microsoft's own update mechanism to circumvent sluggish carriers

Three Phases of SharePoint: What Type of User Are You?

UPDATE: Underwater robots find airline wreckage, bodies

Undersea robots from Woods Hole try to address the mystery of what happened to Air France Flight 447

The Coming Bandwidth Crunch

Bandwidth

Windows 8 rumor mill heats up as Microsoft eyes tablet market

Ribbon interface, Mac-like backup possibly in the works for next version of Windows

The Grill: Charles E. Christian