CNN With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft showed Wednesday it’s trying to retake the browser initiative. IE remains the Net’s dominant browser. But perversely, it became something of a technology underdog after Microsoft vanquished Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s and scaled back its browser effort. That left an opportunity for rivals to blossom [...]

(CNN) — On a recent episode of the TV show “Modern Family,” a character named Mitchell gets in his car and does something that’s frustratingly familiar for early adopters of technology: He tries to operate the machine by talking to it. “CD player: next track,” he says. “Say a command,” a robotic voice responds. “CD [...]