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If SXSW serves as a barometer of all trends hot in tech, then group messaging and texting apps are one of the hottest trends--even by Austin, Texas, standards. These days, I can't open my email without seeing yet another pitch plaguing my inbox touting some slight variation on the group messaging formula.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 hit Japan today, resulting in tsunami warnings for 20 countries, as well as California and Hawaii.

Just in time for SXSW, the app finds free or for-rent workspace for freelancers and office owners looking to rent unused offices and conference rooms.

The crash Friday of NASA's Glory satellite couldn't have come at a worse time. The incident is a blow for climate science and the space agency's efforts to rebuild an Earth observation program weakened by years of lean budgets

The U.S.-Russian space race that led to the Apollo lunar landings is the stuff of legend. But now a new race is emerging, as China gears up with the world's biggest rocket-production factory.

In 2010, a new U.S. Air Force test vehicle, the X-37B, took flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

If Apple is correct that 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies have tested or deployed its iPad tablet in some fashion then there's a hungrier appetite for tablets in the business world than previous believed. And if anyone could make a serious dent in the small-to-medium business and enterprise space, it's Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of the popular BlackBerry smartphone.

A troupe of blue-faced performers is taking its quirky act to a different Las Vegas Strip casino in the fall of 2012.

Royal Caribbean and Azamara Club Cruises are the latest cruise lines to modify their itineraries after nearly two weeks of violent protests and riots aimed at the Egyptian government.