(AP) -- Kristie McNealy blogs from her suburban Denver home about raising four children and health issues. Her husband, Rob, a floor installer, runs another Web site offering product reviews and advice on hardwood floors.
Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties.
The swindling saga of legendary Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff has inspired the creation of The Vile Plutocrat, a website devoted to the notion that "rich people suck."
Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.
"Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob". That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic with Bob, who mentioned the outing on his Facebook profile page.
(AP) -- Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.
(AP) -- Nokia Corp. on Friday revised its global market share estimate for mobile phones in 2009 to 34 percent, from an earlier 38 percent, and said it expected no growth this year.
(AP) -- The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Buried below the tundra of China`s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years. China discovered the large reserve of methane hydrate last September, and last week the Qinghai Province announced that it plans to allow researchers and energy companies to tap the energy source. Although methane hydrate is plentiful throughout the world, the key challenge for China and other nations will ..
In the future it may be considerably easier for orchestras to tour. Jeannine Han, who is in the second year of her master's program in textiles and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles in Boras, Sweden, working together with technician Dan Riley, has developed clothing that plays music when touched.
Except for the sound of tires rolling on the ground, the latest generation of Polaris all-terrain vehicles moves almost silently across a snowy field. Powered by an electric battery instead of a gasoline engine, the new Ranger EV (for electric vehicle) is in sharp contrast to its noisy predecessors, sounding more like an electric golf cart cruising down a fairway. Also missing is the exhaust generated by a gas engine.
Operating computers without touching them, using only hand and arm gestures: it sounds futuristic, but it's already possible. Researcher Wim Fikkert of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, investigated the gestures that people would naturally use to operate a computer in this way. Remarkably, most test subjects chose the same gestures of their own accord.
(AP) -- A federal court has upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make channels they own available to satellite TV providers and other rivals on equal terms.
(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes five men to change a light bulb*, even more to pack a shipping crate. After all, filling space is very hard. But a European project has developed tools to optimise packing problems in just a few seconds -- no joking...
With The New York Times and Rupert Murdoch poised to start charging for newspapers online, media heavyweights sparred on Thursday over whether readers will pay for news on the Web.
Charging online readers will give The New York Times a critical second revenue stream but the print newspaper will be important for "many years to come," publisher Arthur Sulzberger said Thursday.
(AP) -- China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.
(AP) -- Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.
Sydney Morning Herald Sarkozy's right-wing UMP facing .. - Smh Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party appears to be heading for defeat in French regional elections. Initial results suggest the opposition Socialist party has taken a strong lead in the first round of voting.
The Malaysian Insider Pakatan senators back Anwar's .. - Themalaysianinside ... Rakyat's (PR) eight senators today came out in full force to declare their unequivocal support for their de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim . ...
Telegraph.co.uk 'Mission: Impossible' star Peter .. - Telegraph LOS ANGELES - Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.
Portfolio.com European, US Stock-Index Futures Drop; .. - Portfolio March 15 (Bloomberg) -- European and US stock-index futures declined and Asian shares fell on concern China will take more steps to cool its economy and as Moody's Investors Service said the US and the UK are closer to losing ...
Maximum PC Google says China talks continue, but .. - Maximumpc SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Google said on Monday it remained in talks with the Chinese government about censorship of its Chinese-language search portal, despite mounting signs the company could soon shut the site.
Center for Research on Globalization How China Views .. - Globalre ... to hack into its citizens' mail communications, and to monitor and erase any information that might threaten the US national interests on the Internet ...
Unwired View AT&T intros Samsung Strive, Samsung .. - Unwiredview This enables you to transfer, store and share photos and videos from a mobile phone . The stored content can also be accessed and managed via your PC. ...
EL33TONLINE New Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light .. - El33tonline Crystal Dynamics have released two new screenshots for Lara's next adventure, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, which is scheduled to be released on Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and PC this summer.
TopNews United States Glaucoma hits the young in .. - Topnews KUALA LUMPUR - The government is concerned that more young people are suffering from glaucoma. Previously, the disease usually affected people above 45, but now even those in their early 20s and 30s are afflicted.
Daily Mail Boyzone's Brother Hits The Top Of The .. - Dailymail Boyzone's first album since the death of Stephen Gately has gone straight to the top of the UK charts. Brother is the band's fifth number one album and ...
