The amount of venture capital available to early-stage technology businesses in Arizona leaped 81 percent last year, according to the Cyberstates 2006 report released early today by AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - It’s like a shotgun marriage gone oddly harmonious: Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry are now working closer together after a few years of claws-out antagonism in courtrooms and on Capitol Hill.

A Southwest Ambulance emergency medical technician killed Wednesday near Coolidge left behind a husband, five children under age 11, and was 8 1/2 months pregnant when she died.

The automated analysis of "unstructured" data is becoming remarkably agile at giving companies detailed answers to the age-old business question of "How are we doing?"

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the Internet is becoming an ever-more centralized platform for entrenched corporate interests - the antithesis of the digital commons envisioned by technophiles and civil libertarians.

Youths from Arizona and California will compete in a number of technological challenges from graphic design to computer troubleshooting during the second Techathalon hosted on Saturday by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Santa Claus is going high-tech as more children and parents are able to reach the jolly old elf online. "We can use this technology to our advantage and provide a much more believable experience for our kids," said Anne Gaskell, co-owner of SantaSpeaking.com.

NEW YORK - When Office Depot stores ran an electronics recycling drive last summer that accepted everything from cell phones to televisions, some stores were overwhelmed by the amount of e-trash they received.

June 18, 2004

ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Pentagon is rushing into service in Iraq a pair of technologies developed under its advanced research arm: A Humveemounted sensor for pinpointing hostile gunfire and a ‘‘command post of the future’’ designed to cut down on combat leaders’ travel and streamline decision-making.

Gavin Rodriguez never thought he’d wind up in Nebraska. But he’s there now, kicking and punting on a scholarship at Hastings College, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school 160 miles southwest of Omaha.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Restaurant patrons cringed and mothers turned their children away from the television as the video came up of an armed Cho Seung-Hui delivering a snarling, venomous tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs."

When people think of technology in health care, usually what comes to mind are rapidly advancing treatments that could one day cure diseases like diabetes and AIDS.

Chandler is becoming a financial services hub, and is expected to land more major location and expansion projects, economic development professionals say.