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ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0
Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?
New Way to Patch Defective Hardware
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds
New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox
British E-Voting Pilots Announced
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing
The Push For Quotas For Women In Science
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
Hacking a Pacemaker
Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
Germany Plans To Email Trojans
In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking
Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone?
Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database
'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes
Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding
Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks
Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire
U2 Bringing Spider-man to Broadway
A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing?
Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5
Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition
Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel
Let Your Theme Song be Your Password
Let the Games Be Doped
MIT Finds Cure For Fear
OLPC Has Kill-Switch Theft Deterrent
The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now
Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications Online
Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare
Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs?
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
British Astronomers Turn To Interstellar Spam
California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
IBM Trying To Patent Timed Code Inspection
Is Video RAM a Good Swap Device?
Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System
Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes
Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle"
NASA Patents To Be Auctioned
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses
Online Storage With a Twist
SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus
Sci-Fi Channel Merging TV Show with MMO
The Economics of Chips With Many Cores
Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Windows For Warships Nearly Ready
Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax
Yahoo, Adobe To Serve Ads In PDFs
Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers
Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb
Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators
Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry
Creative Documentation
Crowdsourcing Software Development to the Masses
EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright
Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files?
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick
Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea
Google Unveils Flash Ads
Harvesting Energy from the Human Body
How to Turn Your PC into a Mac
ICANN Writes US Government Requesting Independence
Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan
Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
McNealy Says Telcos Falling Behind in Net Race
NYSE Moves to Linux
Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!
Nissan Adds Robot Helper To Its Concept Car
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube
Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Should IT Unionize?
Should We Spam Proxies to China?
Slashdot Announces Idle Section
The Internet of Things - What is a Spime?
UK Voters Want To Vote Online
USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet
United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality'
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook
W3C Considering An HTML 5
W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5
Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari
Why Apple Should Acquire AMD
Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe
Using Technology to Improve Kindergarten?
Switching Hospital Systems to Linux
$5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P
BitTorrent Closes Source Code
USPTO New Accelerated Review Process
"Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy?
10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader
6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared
A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw
A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only
Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime
Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites
Best Buy Coughs Up $54 Million For Napster
Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans
Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse
CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime
Canada Considering A Three Strikes And You're Off The Internet Policy?
Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent
Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords?
Cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS
Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats
Cocaine Vaccine In the Works
Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy
Company Aims To Patent Security Patches
Congress May Kill NIH Open Access Research Rules
Couple Bonding Through PC Building
DIY Hybrid Car Kit
Disillusioned With IT?
EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers
EU Approves Google-DoubleClick Merger
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill
Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
FCC Moves To Regulate Cable TV Competition
FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments
Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades
First Successful Genome Transplant In Bacteria
Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years
Gates Says Microsoft Will Support OpenID
German Firms Patent Scented Text Messaging
Google Chrome, the Google Browser
Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search
Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree
Home Secretary Requests Fingerprint-Activated iPods
Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector
How Mainstream Can Code Scavenging Go?
How To Move Your Linux Systems To ext4
IBM Patents Putting Handprints On Laptops
ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages
IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner?
Jack Thompson Sues Microsoft
Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Knol, the Wikipedia Maybe-Fork?
Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?
MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes
Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services
Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory
McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly
Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu
MySQL Prepares To Go Public
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year
New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned
New ATC System To Rely On AT&T Cell Towers
New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy
New Wheel of Time Author Chosen
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
Ohio University Blocks P2P File Sharing
Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India
Pay-For-Visit Advertising
Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers
Rethinking the Linux Distribution?
SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah
SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices
Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human
Search Results Based on Your Social Network
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review
Stalling Cars Via OnStar
Sweden's Snoop Law Targets Russia
T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones
Texas Governor As E3 Keynote Speaker Causes Strife
The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C?
The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns
Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL
U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access
US GPS, EU Galileo to Work Together
US Urged To Keep Space Shuttles Flying Past 2010
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI

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