Cirque technology brings imagination to life (CNN.com)

Cirque du Soleil has been amazing audiences for more than 20 years with its fantastical human circus shows. Las Vegas has become synonymous with Cirque, boasting five shows -- "O," "Mystere," "Zumanity," "Love," and "KA," one of Cirque's most expensive and technological shows to date.

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New Google Earth Satellite to Launch (PC World)

DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google's interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.

The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.

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Virtualization homes in on desktops (CNET News.com)

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system.

It also introduced the masses to the notion of desktop virtualization.

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EU Courts Strikes Down Microsoft Appeal of Antitrust Ruling (eWEEK)

The European Court of First Instance upheld on Sept. 17 the findings of the European Commission that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products interoperable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system.

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Clothing Shop Tweaks RFID Tech for Hip Shoppers (TechNewsWorld)

There's no quick phrase that can describe Industry Standard, a business that opened this month near Ohio State University in Columbus. It's part urban clothing store, part recording studio, part skateboard shop, part art gallery. It's a pioneer for the in-store application of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, technology that allows customers to communicate with store employees as they shop.

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Navigation devices set to take mass market route (Reuters)

Portable navigation devices are poised to take off this holiday shopping season as market leaders Garmin and TomTom race each other to make deeper inroads into the mass market by pushing out cheaper models.

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