Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word
Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s Word application violates a Canadian firm’s patent. The ruling...
Science & Technology
South Korea Aborts Rocket Launch
According to a report in the Associated Press, South Korea aborted its first launch of a new rocket just minutes before its scheduled...
Read moreComputer Chips Based on DNA
In order to meet the demand for ever smaller and faster computer chips, IBM and the California Institute of Technology have been researching...
Read moreTwitter Attack Aimed at Georgian Blogger
CNET News reported on August 6 that “a Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted...
Read moreCyberattack Takes Down Twitter
A denial-of-service attack took down the Twitter short messaging service on the morning of August 6. As of this writing, the Twitter status...
Read moreMarines Fight Facebook, NFL Tackles Twitter
The Los Angeles Times reported on August 5 that the Defense Department is studying how to use social networking sites such as Facebook,...
Read moreSecret Service Checks Las Vegas ATMs
PC World reported on August 3 that the U.S. Secret Service is investigating some ATM machines in Las Vegas that are subtracting money...
Read moreSkype Signing Off?
They say that all good things must come to an end. The truth of this maxim might be proven very soon in the...
Read moreApple Says Hacked iPhones Are Dangerous
Wired reported on July 28 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the U.S. Copyright Office to legalize the practice of hacking Apple’s...
Read moreAbu Dhabi Backs Space Tourism
Aabar Investments of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates agreed on July 28 to buy a 32 percent stake in Sir Richard...
Read moreMicrosoft, Yahoo Reach Long-Term Search Deal
In an effort to combat Google’s dominant market share, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a 10-year long partnership that will give Microsoft access...
Read moreAT&T Did Not Censor 4chan
AT&T, on July 26, temporarily blocked its customers from accessing the img.4chan.org image-sharing website. Both AT&T and img.4chan.org founder Christopher “Moot” Poole say...
Read moreRegulators Searching Google
Representatives from the European Union said on July 20 that they are investigating Google’s digital book publishing project for possible violations of European...
Read moreTaxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on June 25: “The climate-change legislation likely to win House approval Friday will produce ‘millions of jobs’ in...
Read moreRemembering Apollo 11 and the Promise of the “Space Age”
As millions of Americans remember “where they were” 40 years ago when they first heard Neil Armstrong’s famous first words from the surface...
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