KIDK - Technology News http://www.kidk.com/news/tech RSS Feed for KIDK - News - Technology en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:40:56 GMT EBay settles suit with Skype founders http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69425472.html EBay Inc. says a group of investors who are buying the majority of its telecommunications service, Skype, agreed to settle a legal skirmish with Skype's founders. Ford to put air bags into seat belts http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69378892.html Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Google lets users see some of their personal data http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69289457.html Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them. Review: Motorola's Droid is a serious smart phone http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69289367.html The Droid stands out from the crowd of iPhone wannabes with a slim but weighty body, noticeably angular look and large touch screen. A growing PayPal could soon overshadow parent eBay http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69262937.html Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture. But soon, eBay's biggest business will likely be PayPal, the online payments service that has been growing steadily even as the economy has stumbled. Success in 'space elevator' competition http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69082167.html A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. Microsoft redesigns MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69080872.html Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine. T-Mobile says phone service outage resolved http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69080737.html Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers. NY files antitrust suit against Intel http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69080702.html Attorney General Andrew Cuomo claims that the world's biggest computer chip maker tried to prevent the sale of competitors' products by paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer manufacturers. Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits http://www.kidk.com/news/tech/69080682.html Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.