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Aug 31, 2010 Alaska election officials to count Senate ballots |
| AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The hard-fought primary between Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her conservative challenger entered an important new phase Tuesday when election officials began counting thousands of outstanding ballots. | |
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Aug 31, 2010 New Yorkers Say 9/11 Concerns Eclipse Right to Build Mosque, Survey Finds |
| While most New York voters agree Muslims have the right to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site, a similar majority opposes it out of concern for families victimized by the Sept. | |
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Aug 31, 2010 Muslim leaders debate FBI presence at mosques |
| Muslim leaders are debating the wisdom of inviting FBI agents to mosques to provide protection at a time of rising anti-Muslim rhetoric and debate about the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero. | |
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Aug 30, 2010 Earl threatens US Coast after hitting Caribbean |
| SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the US coast early Wednesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. | |
| Latest news | SCIENCE & TECH |
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Aug 31, 2010 Overhaul of UN climate change body 'could lead to more mistakes' |
| A major overhaul of how the UN advises the world on climate change could lead to more mistakes on the impacts of global warming, an Oxford academic has warned. | |
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Aug 31, 2010 Green groups cautiously welcome Bjørn Lomborg's call for $250bn climate fund |
| Self-styled "sceptical environmentalist" Bjørn Lomborg's call for a $100bn a year global fund for research into climate change solutions was today given a cautious welcome by some leading green groups and thinktanks, but was dismissed by others as ... | |
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Aug 31, 2010 Sprint Faces 4G Dilemma |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. has bet its future on offering speedy data services to mobile devices over a new high-speed, "4G" network and has joined with upstart Clearwire Corp. | |
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Aug 30, 2010 Google, Associated Press sign new license agreement |
| NEW YORK Aug 30 (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) and the Associated Press have struck up a new licensing agreement after months of prickly negotiations involving the news cooperative's content both sides said on Monday. | |
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Aug 28, 2010 Google Gmail calls: calling time on the telephone? |
| Not content with dominating search, email, maps and online video, this week Google announced that, for its American customers at least, it will also be attempting to usurp the telephone. | |
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Aug 28, 2010 Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, others over Web patents |
| A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago. | |
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Aug 28, 2010 Samsung Galaxy Tab: A formidable iPad Foe? |
| Poor Apple, I sometimes can't help but feel sorry for them. They spend millions of dollars to experiment with an idea that many initially criticize as being crazy. | |
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Aug 27, 2010 Wheat groups welcome genetic news, say more needed |
| KANSAS CITY, Aug 27 (Reuters) - US and international wheat breeders said Friday publication of the gene map of wheat could eventually help in developing beneficial new varieties, but cautioned that cracking wheat's complicated genetic ... | |
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Aug 27, 2010 FTC Closes Fake iTunes Reviews Case |
| Online product reviews have always been a little sketchy; you never know who actually writes them, whether there's a hidden incentive, or if it's a company shill in disguise. | |
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Aug 27, 2010 Facebook Places just too much information? Here's how to opt out |
| With the launch of Facebook Places, users need to figure out if this service is a cool new tool or an overbearing feature best avoided. | |
| Latest news | SOFTWARE |
| Sep 1, 2010 Microsoft seeks China internet search partner: report (Reuters) |
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| Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp is looking for a partner in China to help the company play a major role in China's internet search market,... | |
| Aug 31, 2010 VMware buys software makers Integrien, TriCipher (AP) |
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| AP - VMware Inc., a maker of computer virtualization software, said Tuesday it has bought two smaller companies — Integrien and TriCipher. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 iPad Gets AutoCAD Along With Mac (PC World) |
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| PC World - Bringing AutoCAD software to Mac, iPhone and iPad might be a logical move for the company Autodesk, but it's an even bigger deal for... | |














