YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year, on revenue of about $450 million, with help from its onetime critics.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:10 GMT

Hewlett-Packard offered about $2.3 billion, ending an 18-day bidding war. The price reflects a growing urgency to use acquisitions to fuel growth.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:04 GMT

The publisher of the Grand Theft Auto video games raised its outlook on the strength of its newest release, Red Dead Redemption.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:04 GMT

Apple's entry into social media has created bumps in its relationship with Facebook.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:59:06 GMT

People are increasingly watching YouTube videos on cellphone screens, which could lead to new kinds of videos and advertising.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:06:06 GMT

A consumer watchdog group began an advertising campaign aimed at Google and its chief executive. It hopes to create a "Do Not Track Me" list for Web users.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:33:57 GMT

Ideos from Huawei marks the first time a Chinese company has designed and marketed a smartphone specifically for the global market.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:37:15 GMT

Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:41 GMT

The book business tries to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:57 GMT

Dell on Thursday withdrew from the bidding for 3Par, which agreed to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $33 per share.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:57:33 GMT

The F.C.C.’s decision to seek more comments on preserving an open and competitive Internet precludes any agency action before the midterm elections.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:44:06 GMT

The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:25:06 GMT

Swedish authorities said they reopened an investigation of rape allegations against Julian Assange.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:14:34 GMT

The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:21:00 GMT

Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures.

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:46:51 GMT

A simpler alternative to transistors, the memristor, will allow for more computer memory in even smaller devices.

Fecha: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:46:36 GMT

Mike Wise said in his Twitter account that a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was suspended for five games.

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:08:03 GMT

The Deseret News has laid out an ambitious plan to enhance its digital coverage and begin using a collection of freelance contributors to supplement its news report.

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:34:27 GMT

Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:57 GMT

Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:36 GMT

Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:26 GMT

While none of the iPad cases are perfect, the variety is endless; one even has a 100-year warranty.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:42:38 GMT

Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:01:11 GMT

A new Windows PC comes covered with advertising stickers even though computer companies are trying to make their laptops beautiful. David Pogue thinks they ought to stop.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:10:25 GMT

Olympus will add two new zoom lenses for its handsome Pen Micro Four Thirds cameras, as well as an all-black E-P2 camera kit.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:31:05 GMT

The tiny Go Pro HD Hero camera can take incredible photos and high definition video, all while being submerged in water or attached to a surfboard, bicycle or motorcycle.

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:55:42 GMT

RICHMOND -- The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country.


Politics - United States - Transportation - Aviation - Accidents

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Apple made the unusual move this week of saying it would post a live video stream of its 1 p.m. media event. Usually you have to be in the audience with Steve Jobs to hear the announcements live.


Apple - Macintosh - Streaming media - Apple II - Companies

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:25:14 EDT

The advent of social networking sites and text messaging has allowed young girls the opportunity to take on a role traditionally reserved for boys, experts say.


Bully - Youth - Violence and Abuse - Workplace Discrimination - Work

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.



United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County

Fecha: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

A computer outage that has wreaked havoc on Virginia state agencies entered its seventh day Wednesday, and officials acknowledged that the failure was more complicated than they originally thought.


United States - Business - Government - Season - Training camp

Fecha: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

RICHMOND -- A Virginia judge on Monday dismissed a civil subpoena issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II to the University of Virginia that had sought documents related to the work of a global warming scientist and former university professor.


Ken Cuccinelli - Climate change - Environment - Opposing Views - University of Virginia

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

An unprecedented statewide computer outage that has kept the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing new or replacement driver's licenses will continue through Tuesday, prompting Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to call for a probe into the failure and law enforcement agencies to issue blanket...


Virginia - United States - Law - Business and Economy - Government

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

The Aug. 26 editorial " An open, innovative Internet " wrongly stated that a court decided the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over Internet service providers. What the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said was that the section (Title I) of the communications statute cited by agency...



Federal Communications Commission - FCC - Telecommunication - Computers and Internet - Business and Economy

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Barack Obama - United States - President - Government - Elections

Fecha: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:00 EDT

In June, the Department of Defense announced that the mineral wealth of Afghanistan -- including iron, copper, gold and lithium -- might be worth more than $900 billion. Despite the historic importance of the first three, lithium seemed to be the material that most excited Pentagon officials, who...


Bolivia - Afghanistan - South America - Lithium - Batteries

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Educational Resources - Magazines and E-zines - Technology - Magnetic resonance imaging - Facial recognition system

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images.



Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Fecha: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Broadband users in a hurry now have a faster option from Verizon -- an upgraded version of its digital-subscriber-line service that comes a lot closer to the speed of its Fios access. The company announced this morning that it is selling a faster DSL tier, with download speeds of 10 to 15 millio...


Digital Subscriber Line - DSL - Internet service provider - Access Providers - Business

Fecha: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:52:03 EDT

Top aides to President George W. Bush seemed unconcerned amid multiple warnings as early as 2002 that the White House risked losing millions of e-mails that federal law required them to preserve, according to an extensive review of records set for release Monday.


White House - President - United States - Government - Executive Branch

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:06:00 EDT

The technology that turned people into 24/7 communicators has spawned a tool kit that discreetly lets users be just a tad antisocial on their own networks.


Etiquette - Relationships - Arts - Recreation - Travel

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:00 EDT

One of the best things about writing Value Added is that I discover niche businesses that astonish me.



Business - Knowland Group - Business and Economy - Recreation - Small business

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:23:02 EDT

Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly approaching: the world's first attempt to carefully test the cells in people.


Stem cell - Biology - Biotechnology - Products and Services - Research Groups and Centers

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:14:00 EDT

The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.


Preemptive war - United States - Pentagon - September 11 2001 - Terrorism

Fecha: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:00:00 EDT

I am profoundly disappointed in U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's injunction [" Judge blocks stem cell rules ," front page, Aug. 24].


Biotechnology - Stem cell - Biology - Science and Technology - Stem Cell Research

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: "Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon." That line from Kevin Rose, the tech entrepreneur who founded the content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to fundamentally change.



Facebook - Google - Social network - Online Communities - Searching

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Back-to-school shopping deals are just a text message away this year as retailers wade into the brave new world of mobile commerce.


Business and Economy - Telecommunications - Mobile phone - Mobile - Communications

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

SEATTLE - Hewlett-Packard boosted its bid for 3Par to $1.88 billion Friday, topping Dell's offer by 11 percent and again raising the stakes in the bidding contest for the data-storage company.


Hewlett-Packard - Dell - HP - HP 3000 - Unix

Fecha: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:49:01 EDT

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lobbed a patent violation lawsuit at some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies on Friday, accusing them of using ideas hatched at one of his former businesses.


Google - Microsoft - Apple - Facebook - Paul Allen

Fecha: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:15:01 EDT

On the Internet, when I send my ones and zeros somewhere, they shouldn't have to wait in line behind the ones and zeros of wealthier people or corporations. That's the way the Net was designed, and it's central to a concept called "net neutrality," which ensures that Internet service providers can't...



Music - Google - Business - Network neutrality - Arts and Entertainment

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

What's a phone call worth these days? A Verizon phone booth in a Metro station suggests one answer: 50 cents. Another comes from Verizon's cheapest landline service option, which charges 10.2 cents a call. If you use a cellphone or subscribe to a voice-over-Internet-Protocol calling plan, the num...


Google - Search - Search Engines - Companies - Skype

Fecha: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

FOR MORE THAN a decade, "net neutrality" -- a commitment not to discriminate in the transmission of Internet content -- has been a rule tacitly understood by Internet users and providers alike.


Telecommunication - Regulation - Business - Licensing - Federal Communications Commission

Fecha: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

THIS WEEK, a D.C. federal trial judge put a temporary halt to federally funded research on embryonic stem cells, concluding that current law prohibits the use of such money for work in which an embryo is damaged or destroyed. The decision is unnecessarily disruptive, creating uncertainty about the...


Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology - Stem Cell Research - Science and Technology

Fecha: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

Google's Gmail isn't just a mailbox -- it now doubles as a phone. Users of Google's Web e-mail service can now call any phone in the U.S. or Canada for free (and make international calls for almost free) from within their browser.



Google - GoogleVoice - Searching - Search Engines - Gmail

Fecha: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:41:34 EDT

The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.


United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County

Fecha: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

These were among incidents reported by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. For information, call 410-222-8050.


Maryland - United States - Counties - Anne Arundel - Anne Arundel County Maryland

Fecha: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

These were among incidents reported by the Alexandria Police Department. For information, call 703-838-4636 or visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/police .


Arlington - United States - Virginia - Counties - Crime

Fecha: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it has suspended funding new human embryonic stem cell research and that all federally funded experiments already underway will be cut off when they come up for renewal if a new court order is not overturned.



Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology - Embryonic stem cell - Science and Technology

Fecha: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:14:00 EDT

Two weeks after BP's Macondo well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government's Minerals Management Service finalized a regulation intended to control the undersea pressures that threaten deepwater drilling operations.


Minerals Management Service - Geology - Earth Sciences - Rocks and Minerals - Business

Fecha: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:14:02 EDT