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• yARN: Facebook's disappointing IPO puts other Web businesses on watch

  By Rimin Dutt | 22 May, 2012 15:26

  It should have been a revival of sorts for Web 2.0 public floats. Instead, the social networking giant Facebook’s IPO is turning out to be a dampener, raising questions about its knock-on effects on the fortunes of other social media hopefuls.

• Cadillac self-driving cars: Out by 2015?

  By Ed Oswald | 21 April, 2012 08:38

  Google has been getting all of the attention when it comes to self-driving cars, but such technology still seems to be a ways off from hitting the market. The first publicly-available "self-driving" car could come from Cadillac, who is showing off self-driving technology of its own.

• GM set to launch app for car navigation

  By AAP | 29 March, 2012 12:40

  General Motors soon will sell a $US50 smartphone application that could replace your car's dashboard navigation system.

• K-glove developed from space robot

  By Nick Barber | 15 March, 2012 05:44

  General Motors and NASA used technology from their space-bound Robonaut 2 to create robotic gloves for humans that the companies hope can reduce repetitive stress injuries.

• If the Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco

  By Paul McNamara | 12 March, 2012 15:34

  After the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 13,000 recently, San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy made an impassioned case for including Apple in the index, a position he buttressed in part by citing an analysis by Adam Nash of Greylock Partners.

• Robots v. humans: Real steel or dumb metal?

  By Michael Cooney | 02 November, 2011 21:34

  Right from the start let's agree that the argument of humans or robots is getting close to being a dead heat in some areas. With advances in artificial intelligence and complex software, many robots are close to performing some duties better than their human counterparts.

• Cadillac updates car controls with touch, voice

  By Stephen Lawson | 13 October, 2011 05:12

  Cadillac wants to let drivers have natural conversations with their cars and get physical feedback from a touchscreen in some models coming as soon as next year.

• GM's OnStar feels heat, reverses controversial privacy changes

  By Michael Cooney | 29 September, 2011 02:46

  Only a few days after it made what U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) called "brazen" changes to its privacy policy, General Motors subsidiary OnStar has backed down and said it would revert back to its previous terms of service.

• A GM bankruptcy could leave IT vendors with unpaid bills

  By Computerworld Staff | 29 May, 2009 07:49

  There are two story lines revolving around the expected bankruptcy of General Motors Corp., and the first one is ugly. Bankruptcy is a nasty business and IT vendors may be left with unpaid bills, smaller contracts and uncertainty about the automaker's future.

• Motorola to rely on Android to revive phone sales

  By Matt Hamblen | 04 February, 2009 09:09

  Motorola Tuesday said its mobile phone revenues fell by 51 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, and said it plans to improve phone sales in 2009 by developing fewer new handsets with a focus on smartphones that run the Android operating system.

• Auto industry bankruptcies could ripple through tech

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 November, 2008 09:26

  The auto industry has been offering US lawmakers an apocalypse-level scenario warning them that as many as three million jobs could disappear if automakers run out of cash.