The winner, to be announced at a ceremony in Helsinki on June 9, will be awarded euro800,000 ($1.1 million).
The two runners-up will each receive euro150,000 ($204,000).
The Technology Academy of Finland, which announced the finalists on Wednesday, chose them from 55 people and 39 innovations.
Richard Friend from Britain was selected for inventions in optoelectronics that have [...]

Toyota assembled a group of experts to refute studies by an Illinois professor who revved Toyota engines simply by short-circuiting the wiring. Toyotas experts say the experiments were done under conditions that would never happen on the road.
The automaker maintained its assertion that simpler mechanical flaws, not electronics, were to blame.
“There isnt a ghost issue [...]

The recalls and other technical problems besetting Toyota in the last few weeks highlight the risks of relying on electronics instead of the mechanical rods and cables that controlled vehicles for most of the 20th century.
Such advancements bring many benefits, but the worry is that the car is a computer on wheels that could freeze [...]

Companies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were set to unveil more than 20,000 products this week. Those included touch-screen tablets by Hewlett-Packard Co., Sony 3-D TVs, and e-readers from Samsung and others.
Electronics makers are trying to emulate the [...]

A cascade of e-readers will hit the market this year, taking the devices far beyond gray-scale screens with features like touch navigation and video chatting – and probably lowering prices, too.
Its happening as other gadgets, such as mobile phones and tablet computers, give people even more choices for diving into their favorite books. Perhaps the [...]

Manufacturers will use the show in Las Vegas to trot out the devices they hope will keep consumers opening their wallets, despite high unemployment. TVs with 3-D displays, svelte laptops and e-book readers will be the hottest categories.
Gadget makers are in a much better mood than they were a year ago, when they were shocked [...]

Thats not to say Im on some 12-step program to resist shopping. My credit card bills would suggest otherwise. Rather, when I opened a new bank account in March, I challenged myself to see to how much I could use my banks online bill-payment service to stretch the 10 starter checks I got for free.
Ordering [...]

Heres why: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.
These looser standards are especially helpful to a newspaper if it sells an “electronic edition.” That can include a subscriber-only Web site, such as what The Wall Street Journal has, or it can be [...]

“This spectrum is uniquely suited for mobile broadband applications,” CTIA – The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association said in a letter today to the Federal Communications Commission. The groups said the FCC should “immediately” begin studying whether to reallocate “broadcast spectrum.”
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The companies spent about $1.29 million each on management of electronic data this year, compared with $437,000 last year, according to the survey by consulting company Kroll Ontrack Inc. The data, released today, were based on interviews in June, July and August with in-house lawyers and technology specialists at 231 U.S. and 230 U.K. companies. [...]