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Kimani, a huge bull elephant, can be seen with his collar containing a sim card, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya. Save the Elephants has set up a project where they placed a mobile phone SIM card in an elephants collar, then set up a virtual 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

Sat Oct 11, 7:10 PM ET

OL PEJETA, Kenya - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

  • Anil Duggal poses with an organic light emitting device at a General Electric Global Research laboratory in Niskayuna, N.Y., Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
    Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future Sat Oct 11, 12:39 AM ET

    NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.

  • In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo, Chris Martin of the British band Coldplay performs on stage at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE, Alessandro Della Bella, file)
    Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics Fri Oct 10, 5:37 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES - Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync.

  • Passersby watch as the stock numbers are posted at the close of the market on the Nasdaq building in New York City. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, eBay, Dell, Intel, Cisco, Hewlett Packard and Oracle, key components of the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index, all saw their share prices fall by double digits in percentage terms.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Rick Gershon)
    Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again Fri Oct 10, 4:47 PM ET

    SEATTLE - When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.

  • Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms Thu Oct 9, 5:32 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.

  • The Yoggie GateKeeper Pico ($149),top, the IronKey ($149), center, and Take Anywhere's Pocket Safe ($59.95) bottom are shown Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008, in Atlanta. These small flash drives offer added computer security for the user. The IronKey and Pocket Safe units offer data encryption and password protection to keep the stored data on them private. The Yoggie serves as a plugin firewall and anti-virus tool to secure the user's online activities. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
    Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security Thu Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET

    ATLANTA - Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.

  • People play a new driving game at Sony Corp.'s PlayStation booth during a media preview of the annual Tokyo Game Show in Chiba near Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called 'avatars,' Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
    Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start Thu Oct 9, 8:34 AM ET

    CHIBA, Japan - Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.

  • Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent Thu Oct 9, 6:36 PM ET

    BOISE, Idaho - Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday.

  • YouTube on Tuesday added links to online stores in a move crafted to pump more money from the hot video-sharing website Google bought nearly two years ago in a 1.65 billion dollar stock deal.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)
    Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses Wed Oct 8, 4:48 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.

  • 40 laid off at software company as execs arrested Wed Oct 8, 9:30 PM ET

    SEATTLE - Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.

  • This photo provided by Research in Motion Ltd., shows the company's new touch-screen phone, the Storm. With the new model being announced Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2008 the Storm, RIM is for the first time giving up the physical keypad in favor of a large screen, just like the one on Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Research in Motion Ltd.)
    BlackBerry Storm has touch screen you can feel Wed Oct 8, 11:15 AM ET

    NEW YORK - Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

  • Google gets into video games — with ads Wed Oct 8, 10:11 AM ET

    NEW YORK - Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game.

  • EU proposes increased rights for Internet shoppers Wed Oct 8, 9:36 AM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.

  • Top record labels: artists, market share Fri Oct 10, 9:55 AM ET

    Here's a look at the top record labels, their artists and their U.S. market share as of Oct. 9:

  • IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds Thu Oct 9, 7:13 PM ET

    NEW YORK - IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.

  • IBM 3Q profit a positive sign for tech sector Thu Oct 9, 11:29 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of IBM Corp. jumped Thursday after the technology company's surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the worsening economic climate.