In the wake of President Obama’s proposed budget cuts, will U.S. astronauts ever return to the moon? Yes, says NASA, but maybe not in a government-built spaceship — and maybe not any time soon.

Dry-eye sufferers and glaucoma patients may soon be able to trade their messy eye drops for a contact lens that delivers medication gradually over time. Scientists report they’ve created a contact lens that can deliver a high concentration of antibiotic at a constant rate for more than 30 days.

Exchanging business cards remains standard protocol among many executives, and nobody believes paper cards will become extinct anytime soon. Even so, more professionals are also opting for Web-based services, or “digital business cards,” to trade contact information.

Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will — as it did July 28 with Google Voice.

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based startup that helps aggregate all of a user’s social networking activity feeds in one place. But this is not as ridiculously huge of a deal as the Silicon Valley hype machine is going to have you believe.

Call it Techies for Haiti. Professionals from tech companies, universities and government agencies will meet in free-form session of firing out ideas, then turning those ideas into action to help Haiti earthquake victims.

When microblogging and social networking site Twitter debuted three years ago, plenty of people wrote it off as yet another pointless addition in the overcrowded networking world.

Users of BlackBerry phones in North America reported widespread interruptions in sending and receiving e-mail Thursday.

As authorities confirmed the “balloon boy” saga was a hoax, they checked the vessel created by Richard Heene to see whether it could have actually carried his 6-year-old son Falcon.

Now that they’ve gotten a peek at it, publishers of books, newspapers and magazines are hoping Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet device will breathe new life into their struggling industry.

Today’s Internet is governed by the idea that crowds of people can create the news, share information and collaborate on online projects. So when Wikipedia, the user-written encyclopedia that’s built an empire on this ideal, decided this week to add a layer of oversight to its system, the Web erupted in debate.

Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world’s largest wind farm.

The concept of personal branding has been around for more than a decade, but the Internet and social networking have made it easier than ever to sell brand “you.”

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were busy cleaning up their pad Thursday in anticipation of seven visitors from Earth, Mission Control in Houston, Texas, reported.

Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right.

What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?