Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a new touch-screen, tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard Co., the first of several such devices expected to be unveiled this month. The tablet – also known as a slate, a one-piece portable computer without a physical keyboard – was one of seve...

Leighton Meester Jose Perez/Splash News Online Facebook Twitter Yahoo Buzz E-mail Though primarily known as Blair Waldorf on the CW’s Gossip Girl, Meester is hoping to become recognized as a singer – having been a part of Cobra Starship’s hit song “Good Girls ...

Obama to address report on botched terror attack WASHINGTON (AP) – The public is getting its clearest look at the government missteps that allowed a suspected terrorist to slip through post-Sept. 11 security and threaten lives on American soil. The White House on Thursday planned to make pub...

LAS VEGAS — If you count the now-defunct Computer Dealer’s Exhibition computer show (also known as COMDEX), I’ve been coming to Vegas at least once a year since 1981 to witness the latest and greatest in technology. While COMDEX has been dead for years, the Consumer Electronics Show...

LAS VEGAS — If you count the now-defunct Computer Dealer’s Exhibition computer show (also known as COMDEX), I’ve been coming to Vegas at least once a year since 1981 to witness the latest and greatest in technology. While COMDEX has been dead for years, the Consumer Electronics Show...

Local Tickets available for 16th Laughlin Desert Challenge; to run Jan. 15-17 Monday, January 4, 2010 1:32 PM PST LOS ANGELES – For the 16th straight year, motorsports fans and racers from across the United States, Mexico and Canada will gather in Laughlin for the popular SCORE Laughlin Des...

Grim Obama says terror attack ‘dots’ not connected WASHINGTON (AP) – A grim-faced President Barack Obama declared Tuesday there was a deep failure of national intelligence in the botched Christmas Day airliner terror attack over Detroit, telling the nation the government had enou...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – ESPN is joining the rush to go 3D with plans to launch a 3D television network in June. The Walt Disney Co’s sports unit said on Tuesday it will launch ESPN 3D, which it claims is the industry’s first 3D TV network, in June and will air a minimum of 85 live sport...

ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year. There’ll be no reruns initially, so the network will be dark when there’s no 3D event. Among other events planned for 3D broadcast: the Summer X Games (extreme sports), NBA games, colle...

ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year. There’ll be no reruns initially, so the network will be dark when there’s no 3D event. Among other events planned for 3D broadcast: the Summer X Games (extreme sports), NBA games, colle...