Yesterday morning, web users around the world went to log in to their Ma.gnolia accounts — an online bookmarking service like Delicious — only to find that the website had been taken offline. …
AP - Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period Saturday morning were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.
AP - Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim but growing chance the ad is watching you too.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 35-year-old computer programer pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he planted a computer virus designed to destroy all the data on 4,000 Fannie Mae computer servers the day he was fired from the company.
Can’t get a decent cell signal in your living room? I know the feeling. That’s why more and more carriers are offering femtocells: compact, antenna-equipped boxes that use your home broadband network to boost cell reception. …
The record industry has figured out that DRM doesn’t work. The movie business is finally catching on to the idea. The gaming industry? No clue whatsoever. …
Like a zombie that just won’t die, the DTV delay bill—which was voted down by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday—has sprung back to life, with a little help from the Senate.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A co-author of a widely cited forecast that nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs would be created for every percentage point rise in high-speed Internet use said on Friday these and similar estimates are “a gross overestimate.”
AP - Don’t put off action on global warming just because times are lean that’s the message Al Gore, world environmental leaders and U.S. executives sent Friday to President Barack Obama.
AP - Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 9 percent and easily surpassed analysts’ forecasts. Those results, plus an optimistic forecast, sent its shares soaring 13 percent in extended trading.