President Obama held his second prime-time news conference Tuesday. Before taking questions, he gave a brief speech. Here is the complete transcript from the news conference: President Obama: Hello, everybody. Please have a seat. Good evening. Now, before I take questions from the correspondents, I want to give everyone who's watching tonight an update on the steps we're taking to move this economy from recession to recovery, and ultimately to prosperity. Now, it's important to remember that this ...

A train carrying Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of India's ruling Congress party, was pelted with stones Tuesday night, police said. Gandhi was traveling on one of India's Shatabdi Express trains -- fully air-conditioned, speedy trains preferred mostly by India's wealthy and upper-class travelers. Gandhi's train was hit by stones -- and at least two windows were broken -- as it passed through a village en route to the capital of New Delhi from Punjab state, a spokesman for Haryana ...

Two men arrested this week in connection with Britain's largest-ever jewelry heist have been charged with armed robbery and will appear in court Friday, police said. Solomun Beyene, 24, and Craig Calderwood, 26, were arrested Wednesday. Police said they conspired with others to rob Graff jewelry store in London's Mayfair neighborhood August 6. Beyene, of London, and Calderwood, who has no fixed address, were each charged with committing robbery and possessing a firearm, namely a handgun, London's Metropolitan Police said. ...

Can we all agree on something? There's no longer a difference between a Netbook and a notebook. Thanks to Netbooks' move to more features and larger-size screens, the distinction between the two can now be considered little more than marketing speak. We recently wrote about the fall's coming battle between Netbooks -- a category now 2 years old -- and thin and light notebooks with consumer ultra-low voltage (CULV) processors. In theory, the value of a Netbook -- ...

Two men were arrested Wednesday in connection with this month's brazen London jewelry store robbery of millions of dollars worth of gems, Metropolitan Police said. Officers continued to appeal for information about the robbery. Last week, London police arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the August 6 daylight robbery, though he was released on bail. It was not clear whether police thought that man was one of the two robbers, whom they had described as appearing to be in ...

Landing in stores October, Windows 7 is sparking a surprisingly heated debate (in our forums, at least) on whether or not upgrading from XP is a good idea. If you're in the "nay" camp, we're going to lay out seven reasons why you should consider switching your stance to "yay." When scanning our list, we politely encourage you to ask yourself, "Do I really want to continue using an eight-year-old operating system" Followed by "Don't I deserve better" Because no ...

London police have arrested a man in connection with a brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, they announced Wednesday. The 50-year-old man was arrested on Monday, police revealed. Some $65 million in merchandise was stolen in the August 6 robbery. On Tuesday police released surveillance camera photos of two men sought for questioning over the heist as well as images of some of the rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches taken from Graff Jewellers on central London's ...

Two men are being sought for questioning in the brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, in which some $65 million in merchandise was stolen, authorities said Tuesday. Detectives released surveillance camera photos of the two, in addition to images of some of the rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches taken from Graff Jewellers on central London's New Bond Street. A total of 43 items were taken, with a value of about £40 million, or about $65 million, Scotland ...

In a shockingly unsurprising move, Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple Inc.'s board of directors today. This was inevitable, since both companies are staking their future growth on the explosion in mobile computing. So why did it take so long? Three years ago, the mobile horizon looked very different from how it has turned out. Google was working on Android, its open-source-ish operating system for cellular phones. Its strategy: Let a million mobile phones blossom! So ...

In less than a week, Google announced an operating system to compete with Windows, while Microsoft announced that Office 10 will include free, online versions of its four most popular software programs -- a shot at Google's suite of web-based office applications. And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, ...