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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new way to store electrical energy and a paper on their research was published this week in Nature.

Gerbrand Ceder, an R. P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and his team at MIT’s Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging Materials Research group have found a way to demonstrate how batteries, which obtain high energy density by storing a charge in the bulk of a material, can…

Nintendo reports it has sold more than 100 million handheld gaming machines since its late 2004 launch of the Nintendo DS, which inaugurated a new era of portable gaming by introducing touchscreen and voice-recognition capabilities.

The second-generation Nintendo DS Lite, which is backward compatible with the Nintendo DS and arrived in North America in June 2006, features touch input from a stylus and Wi-Fi connectivity. Both handhelds are popular among gaming aficionados worldwide.

As of year-end 2008, 83 software titles…

Hitachi Displays Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices on the sale of LCD panels.

The Japan-based electronics firm agreed to pay a $31 million fine as part of its deal with the U.S. Justice Department.

Three other major producers of liquid crystal display panels have already admitted their involvement in price-fixing.

Hitachi admitted to fixing prices of the screens sold to Dell, Inc. for use in desktop monitors and notebook computers from 2001 to 2004.

LG Display Co. Ltd.,…