Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
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.
Defending against chemical and biological weapons
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.
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
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
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
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
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
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
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.
DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
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
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
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
TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.
Photos: NASA's science, tech showcase
A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.