Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:00 PDT

Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.

Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:25:00 PDT

The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:14:00 PDT

At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.

What soccer team would your company be?
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:11:00 PDT

Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.

iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:00 PDT

Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:00 PDT

Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PDT

q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.

Defending against chemical and biological weapons
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT

At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.

Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT

Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:54:00 PDT

Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.

Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:56:00 PDT

Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.

Sites that help you lodge complaints
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:49:32 PDT

If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.

Google App Engine misfires
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:40:00 PDT

A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:26:00 PDT

Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.

Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:26:00 PDT

Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.

Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:25:00 PDT

The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.

DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:10:00 PDT

Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.

Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:03:00 PDT

Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie.

Fisker's good Karma
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:03:00 PDT

At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.

TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:21:00 PDT

TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.

Photos: NASA's science, tech showcase
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT

A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.