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U.S. Allegedly Listened In on Calls of Americans Abroad    more similar news »
The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is looking into allegations that a U.S. spy agency improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of hundreds of Americans overseas, including aid workers and U.S. military personnel talking to their spouses at home.

Fri Oct 10, 2008
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IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds    more similar news »
NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.

Fri Oct 10, 2008
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District, Verizon Reach Deal on FiOS Service    more similar news »
D.C.'s Office of Cable Television and Verizon have reached an agreement on a 15-year franchise pact to bring FiOS television, high-speed Internet and telephone service to the city.

Thu Oct 09, 2008
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Cameras Get Cheaper, but at a Price    more similar news »
Something wonderful has happened to digital cameras in the past few years. They've become enough of a commodity for manufacturers to start acting a little silly in their quest to find some new feature to set their hardware apart from everybody else's.

Thu Oct 09, 2008
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MoveOn Grows Up    more similar news »
NEW YORK Five days after Sen. John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Quinn Latimer and co-worker Lyra Kilston sent an e-mail to 40 female friends and invited them to outline the reasons they were upset with his choice. It elicited such a huge response -- from friends of...

Thu Oct 09, 2008
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An Optimized View    more similar news »
BORN DIGITAL Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Thu Oct 09, 2008
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The $700 Billion Man With an Engineer's Mind    more similar news »
Many of the complicated securities at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis were designed by mathematicians and physicists, and now the U.S. government has tapped an aerospace engineer who used to design NASA satellites to start unraveling them.

Thu Oct 09, 2008
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Kentucky Tests State's Reach Against Online Gambling    more similar news »
An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet.

Wed Oct 08, 2008
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Army's Life-or-Death Drama    more similar news »
Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool -- an interactive video to be mandatory viewing Army-wide -- in which soldiers will play the role of an anguished infantryman and make virtual choices that lead the character to get help or, in the...

Wed Oct 08, 2008
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3 Physicists Win Nobel Prize    more similar news »
An American and two Japanese physicists won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for their discovery of tiny breaks in the symmetry of nature's fundamental particles that help explain why our universe exists and the rules that govern it.

Wed Oct 08, 2008
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YouTube to sell music, games in revenue push    more similar news »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the world's most popular video-sharing site, will start to sell music and video games and experiment with new advertising formats to grow revenue, executives said on Tuesday.

Wed Oct 08, 2008
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House Gives Thumbs-Up To Members' Web Videos    more similar news »
Members of the House, relax. You will still be allowed to post YouTube videos of yourself on your official congressional Web sites, so all your interested constituents can click and see you pounding the podium and championing a bill for your district.

Tue Oct 07, 2008
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Studies Lift Hopes for Great Lakes Wind Turbine Farms    more similar news »
CHICAGO -- Picture 100,000 wind turbines rising from the Great Lakes off Michigan's shores, casting spinning shadows on the water and producing electricity for the entire Upper Midwest.

Tue Oct 07, 2008
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High Court Lets Dish Ruling Stand    more similar news »
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected Dish Network's appeal of a patent-infringement ruling that may force the company to shut down its digital video recording service and pay TiVo hundreds of millions of dollars.

Tue Oct 07, 2008
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25% of Wild Mammal Species Face Extinction    more similar news »
BARCELONA, Oct. 6 -- At least a quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here Monday.

Tue Oct 07, 2008
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EBay to Fire 10 Percent of Workers, Buy Bill Me Later    more similar news »
EBay, whose shares are trading at an almost six-year low, will cut 10 percent of its workforce and agreed to buy two payment and classified advertising companies for $1.34 billion as sales growth slows at its Internet marketplace unit.

Tue Oct 07, 2008
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Survey Finds 'Bleak Picture' for World's Mammals    more similar news »
BARCELONA -- A quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here this morning.

Mon Oct 06, 2008
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Biotechs Race for New Vaccine    more similar news »
Developing a next-generation anthrax vaccine is not for the weak of heart -- or wallet. Just two years ago, a revoked federal contract for a purportedly new and improved vaccine left a California biotech in ruins.

Mon Oct 06, 2008
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Bells and Whistles in Search of an Audience    more similar news »
Pop in a new Blu-ray version of the animated flick "Sleeping Beauty" this week, and you (or your kids) will be able to connect online while watching the movie to text-chat with friends or other Disney fans. Or you could pick your favorite scene and send it with a personalized video message to fam...

Sun Oct 05, 2008
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The Accidental Beach House    more similar news »
Dan Wittenberg never really wanted a beach house, just a patch of land at the water's edge where he could park his Hobie Cat and sail it at a moment's notice.

Sat Oct 04, 2008
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Google and Yahoo Ad Deal Delayed    more similar news »
Google and Yahoo will delay implementation of their joint advertising deal to give antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department more time to review the agreement, the companies said yesterday.

Sat Oct 04, 2008
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With Merger, Revolution Takes Aim At WebMD    more similar news »
Revolution Health Network, the online health care business launched by AOL co-founder Steve Case, is merging with competitor Waterfront Media in an effort to better challenge WebMD as the top source of online health information.

Sat Oct 04, 2008
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Protests Lead Carmaker To Give Up Plant in India    more similar news »
NEW DELHI, Oct. 3 -- After months of violent demonstrations, Tata Motors, the Indian manufacturer of the world's cheapest car, will abandon its $350 million factory in West Bengal state.

Sat Oct 04, 2008
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New Sony Reader has light, note-taking stylus    more similar news »
NEW YORK -- Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display, features that set it apart from Amazon.com Inc.'s competing Kindle reader.

Fri Oct 03, 2008
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Tech Tactics for Hard Times    more similar news »
News flash: The economy stinks. It's not a good time to be throwing money at things that don't rate as necessities -- a description that applies to many of the goods and services reviewed in this space.

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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Dementia Patients Find Comfort in Robot    more similar news »
One of the hottest therapeutic toys for people with dementia looks like a stray from the North Pole.

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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Emergent Wins New Contract for Anthrax Vaccine    more similar news »
A Rockville biotech will remain the government's sole anthrax vaccine supplier until new doses, based on more modern technologies, can be procured.

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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If Bioterrorists Strike, Letter Carriers Might Deliver Antibiotics    more similar news »
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor bioterrorism attack stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- especially if they are delivering antibiotics to protect people from anthrax."

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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Parents Say Math Course Data Don't Compute    more similar news »
The math wars in Prince William County are not over for some parents, but the conflict might be on hiatus.

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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Hollywood studios agree to digital rollout    more similar news »
LOS ANGELES -- Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D.

Thu Oct 02, 2008
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Palin Had Another Private E-Mail Account, Company Says    more similar news »
WASILLA, Alaska, Sept. 30 -- Gov. Sarah Palin maintained a private e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the state government's secure official e-mail system, according to the Wasilla company that established the site.

Wed Oct 01, 2008
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Congress OKs Greater Broadband Access    more similar news »
WASHINGTON -- Congress has passed legislation that will require the government to keep closer tabs on who has access to the Internet and who does not.

Wed Oct 01, 2008
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Glitch Delays Hubble Repair Mission    more similar news »
A malfunction on the Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend forced NASA yesterday to delay, probably until next year, a space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the orbiting observatory, agency officials said.

Tue Sep 30, 2008
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Mars Craft Detects Falling Snow    more similar news »
Icy snow falls from high in Mars's atmosphere and may even reach the planet's surface, scientists working with NASA's Phoenix lander reported yesterday.

Tue Sep 30, 2008
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A Record Fall on Wall St.    more similar news »
NEW YORK, Sept. 29 -- Without a federal bailout plan to prop up confidence in the U.S. financial system Monday, stocks fell sharply around the globe, oil sank, gold soared and yields on government debt skidded closer to zero as traders ran from risk and sought safe-haven investments.

Tue Sep 30, 2008
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Tech Stocks Drop 9 Percent    more similar news »
Technology stocks took a nosedive yesterday, falling about 9 percent, as the Nasdaq had its worst drop since the Internet bubble imploded in 2000, a sign that no sector is immune to the current financial turmoil, analysts said.

Tue Sep 30, 2008
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A Glimpse Into Personalized Medicine of the Future    more similar news »
Perhaps it was the purple starry night backdrop or the strange silver poles lined up on stage, but G. Steven Burrill seemed to have arrived from the future. Addressing AdvaMed 2008, a medical technology industry conference in Washington last week, he spoke about the upcoming era of personalized m...

Mon Sep 29, 2008
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Google Goes to Washington, Gearing Up to Put Its Stamp on Government    more similar news »
The tall buildings in Reston bear the familiar names of big government contractors: Northrop Grumman, CACI, Raytheon and Accenture. Last month another name appeared, but not one that's typically associated with the federal market.

Mon Sep 29, 2008
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Iridium to Get $500 Million Cash Infusion    more similar news »
When Motorola's $6 billion global satellite phone system, Iridium, went belly-up eight years ago, few saw it as anything more than a whopper of a waste of good technology on the wrong application.

Mon Sep 29, 2008
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Sprint Nextel Readies Its Xohm Service for Baltimore    more similar news »
Sprint Nextel today moves a step closer to rolling out its much-touted Xohm wireless service in Baltimore, as it finishes work building the network. The company plans an official kickoff Oct. 8.

Mon Sep 29, 2008
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