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Revising privacy law for the 'cloud' era

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 1:51pm MDT

The government needs a search warrant to bust into your house, search your files, and pull out any incriminating documents. It needs the same warrant for files stored on your computer. So why doesn't the same standard apply when the same information is stored in online servers operated by third parties like Google or Microsoft?

From Iowa to India, a 'Walk in Our Shoes'

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 8:41am MDT

To step into Deki Dorji's dainty black slippers is to realize how unexpectedly peaceful life can be, even when you're pacing in circles.

Why the Web is fastest in South Korea

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:33am MDT

People in the United States basically invented the Internet. So U.S. connections must be the fastest and cheapest in the world, right? Nope -- South Korea is ahead on both fronts. Here's why.

Young Saudis bypass social lockdown with Facebook

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 4:45am MDT

How can young people connect -- and date -- in a conservative society that forbids men and women socializing together?

'Scarface' featuring kids intentionally goes viral

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 7:53pm MDT

The delivery isn't the smoothest, the guns are obviously fake and some of the language has been changed to avoid offending young ears. And the death scene -- well, it's one of the most comical since Brad Pitt's big bounce at the beginning of "Meet Joe Black."

Fighting identity theft not a priority, report says

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 6:03pm MDT

Ten million Americans a year are victims of identity theft. It's a growing problem in the United States, but fighting it doesn't appear to be a priority, a new report says.

Twitter homepage adds 'top tweets'

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 2:11pm MDT

Twitter's homepage got a new look Tuesday, featuring a scrolling list of "top tweets" designed to give non-members a look at what they're missing.

Google searches blocked from mainland China

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 11:36am MDT

China appeared to up the ante Tuesday in its dispute over Google's refusal to censor Chinese-language search results, blocking mainland Chinese Internet users from using Google search for any query.

'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 10:19am MDT

The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "Can I help you with something?"

The #@!#! office copier turns 50

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 6:35am MDT

It has saved workers countless hours, been cursed by anyone who's faced a paper jam on deadline, been used by office pranksters to copy body parts and been immortalized on "Saturday Night Live." It's the plain-paper office copier, and it's 50 years old.

'God particle' enters new territory

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:42am MDT

The world's largest particle accelerator was set to enter a "new territory" in physics Tuesday by attempting to make two proton beams collide at high energy.

Job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages

Posted: March 29th, 2010, 7:37am MDT

As more hiring managers screen candidates by checking their online profiles, young job-seekers are changing their names on Facebook or tightening privacy settings to hide personal information.

Google-China flap déjà vu for Microsoft

Posted: March 29th, 2010, 12:38am MDT

A fight between a technology titan and the world's fastest-growing economy. Trade war tensions rising between Beijing and Washington. Google's China flap is all too familiar for Microsoft.

Beware the 'With tears in my eyes' e-mail

Posted: March 28th, 2010, 11:28am MDT

When the e-mail arrived the other day, I knew instantly who it was from.

Facebook plans to add 'place' feature

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 3:13pm MDT

Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to pages on the social-networking site but released almost no details about how the feature will work.

Apps battling to bring movies to your phone

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:19am MDT

Video rental companies made big moves this week in the race to deliver movies to phones.

Researcher: China pays people to boost its Web image

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:03am MDT

If you thought corporate "astroturfing" (fake grassroots activity) was a problem at sites like Yelp and Amazon that feature user reviews of products, imagine how much worse it would be if the U.S. government employed a couple hundred thousand people to "shape the debate" among online political forums. Crazy, right? What government would ever attempt it?

Skipper of 'flying' boat seeks to circle globe in 40 days

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 8:17am MDT

The captain of a huge "flying" boat that has smashed world records for speed on water now plans to sail round the world in under 40 days.

Weaning Koreans off their wired world

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 6:50am MDT

While in high school, Cheong Beom-seok often slept through his classes and played online games seven or eight hours at night, sneaking in front of the computer while his parents were in bed.

Google.cn: R.I.P or good riddance?

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 2:47am MDT

How do Chinese Internet users feel about Google's decision to move most of its search functions from the mainland to Hong Kong? That all depends on who you ask.

Why the Twestival matters

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 11:03am MDT

Today people in more than 175 cities will attend meetups to raise money for Concern Worldwide, helping to provide an education to the estimated 72 million children around the world who are not enrolled in school.

Gmail 'geolocation' aims to stop scams

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 10:52am MDT

Google has added an additional security measure to Gmail that can help alert you to hackers potentially hijacking your e-mail account and using it for nefarious ends.

Google mum on YouTube outage

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 10:17am MDT

Google Inc., owner of YouTube, wasn't commenting Thursday morning on why the popular video-sharing site was down for about an hour.

Confused about cell-phone camera quality? Help is on the way

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 7:39am MDT

How do you know which cell-phone camera takes the best pictures? It's hard to tell. But an international consortium is working on a test that will use a five-star rating and a basic accompanying chart to judge image quality.

Lady Gaga first to hit 1 billion video views

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:57am MDT

Lady Gaga is now in a club all her own: She's the first franchise to reach one billion online video views.

Report: Central African gorillas may go extinct

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:13am MDT

Gorillas may go extinct in much of central Africa by the mid-2020s -- victims of a meat trade, of logging and mining, and even the Ebola virus, a new report says.

Sprint unveils its first 4G phone

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 8:14am MDT

Sprint has announced its first 4G phone, to go on sale this summer. The HTC Evo 4G has two cameras for video calling and is the first commercially available 4G handset with a major U.S. carrier.

In China, Bing's turn to show some spine

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 7:55am MDT

Microsoft's Bing search engine will not follow Google out of China. Executives have made that clear. But will they take the high road or the low road in their quest to win a bigger piece of a China's fast-growing Internet market?

Winners and losers of Google's China pullout

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 6:46am MDT

Google's partners in China are beginning to sever ties with the Internet giant following the company's decision to quit self censoring in the country and redirect searches to Google in Hong Kong.

Friend: Government was paying hacker

Posted: March 24th, 2010, 6:19am MDT

Convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez, who ran a multimillion-dollar bank card theft operation, earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, says an accomplice.

Nintendo to unveil 3-D gaming console

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 10:07am MDT

The 3-D entertainment craze continues to spread to video games. Nintendo announced Tuesday it will introduce a handheld console that plays games in 3-D without the use of special glasses.

Opera submits browser for iPhone approval

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 8:35am MDT

Web browser company Opera has submitted an app for the iPhone that it promises will make surfing on the device faster -- if Apple allows it.

Branson spacecraft completes test flight

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 7:04am MDT

British billionaire Richard Branson's dream of space travel that thousands of people can afford took a leap toward reality with the maiden flight of the world's first commercial spacecraft over California's Mojave Desert.

Can 4G wireless take on broadband?

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 6:33am MDT

The 4G revolution in wireless won't just make Web surfing on your mobile phone faster. It could help you say goodbye to traditional cable and DSL broadband.

China: Spat with Google won't affect U.S. relations

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 6:09am MDT

There's no reason China's row with Internet search giant Google -- which stopped censoring search results in that country Monday -- should hurt relations with the United States, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

How Google's move affects China

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:36am MDT

Here's what Google's decision to redirect Web searches from China to its Hong Kong site means for its users.

Google-China move hurts businesses, academics

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:37am MDT

Businesses and universities could be substantially affected by the departure of Google from China.

Google quits censoring search in China

Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 1:59pm MDT

Google on Monday announced it has stopped censoring search results in China. The company shut down its censored Google.cn site and was routing its Chinese users to an uncensored version of Google based in Hong Kong.

Group urges 'Sabbath' day of unplugging

Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 8:02am MDT

As the story goes, God spent six days creating the world and then rested on the seventh day. He told the Jewish people to always rest on the seventh day of each week, which was to become known as the Sabbath for them for eternity.

Business chill in China for U.S. tech firms

Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 1:50am MDT

Technology firms doing business in China are raising alarm bells over what they claim are protectionist measures by Beijing.

China media step up Google rhetoric

Posted: March 21st, 2010, 9:35pm MDT

Chinese state media launched a fresh volley of articles attacking the "politicization" of Google after media reports suggest the Internet giant may soon officially pull out of China.

Game sequels bring fantasy action

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 2:41pm MDT

Talk about March Madness: Two high-profile video game sequels have launched within a week of one another, in a month that's typically quiet for new releases.

Is voice becoming the new text (again)?

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:57am MDT

Long a goal (and sometimes the butt of jokes) in the science community, the ability to talk to computers is gaining steam again with several new efforts at mobile-voice technology.

Hubble and the space shuttle in IMAX 3-D

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:46am MDT

The 3-D IMAX movie "Hubble: 3-D" will offer a look at the last-ever space shuttle mission to the space telescope and, an astronaut says, a view that looks like it's from heaven.

Quarter of UK kids try hacking

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:23am MDT

Though the majority of children agree that computer hacking is wrong, more than a quarter of those in England have tried it, a survey released Thursday found.

Report: Google-China decision on Monday

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 10:37pm MDT

Google will make an announcement on its plans to leave China on Monday, according to a Friday report in China Business News.

Is Digg the future of social news?

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 1:56pm MDT

Social voting site Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub for sharing links on the Web. If your friends are sharing media on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, Digg wants to provide a personalized home page that filters the Web based on your friends' activities. These new features will be previewed in the coming weeks.

One pair of 3D glasses to rule them all

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 10:53am MDT

The good news about the 3D TVs coming out this spring and summer is that they'll come packed with two pairs of 3D lenses. The bad news? Those plastic glasses work only with the brand of TV with which they're shipped.

A year later, family cashing in on 'David After Dentist'

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 7:04am MDT

"David After Dentist," the viral video of a woozy boy after dental surgery, has been viewed almost 54 million times on YouTube. It's also been an unexpected bonanza for the boy's Orlando, Florida-area family.

Is the 'paperless' office here at last?

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 5:00am MDT

Although the dream of the "paperless office" has been around for decades, businesses continue to print, copy and fax more than a trillion pages of office paper each year. Can new technology change that?

Web site's funny texts lead to app, TV show

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 3:05pm MDT

When some people find out that Lauren Leto quit law school at Wayne State University after her first year to focus on her Web site, they lecture her about responsibility and planning for her future.

5 things we learned at South by Southwest

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 9:04am MDT

For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.

So who won SXSW's 'location wars?'

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:56am MDT

It was billed as the "location wars" -- two mobile networking services battling for the affections of the smartphone-wielding techie elite at the South by Southwest Interactive festival. So who won?

China partners to Google: Decide now

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 5:34am MDT

Google's business partners in China are asking the company to clarify whether it will stay or go.

FCC releases plan to improve U.S. Web access

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:17am MDT

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a national "broadband plan" Tuesday that aims to give 90 percent of Americans access to affordable, high-speed Internet by 2020.

Is Google Wave getting Buzzed?

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:15am MDT

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch at Google I/O in May 2009, consider its demise an inside job.

A webmaster without the high-speed Web

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 2:26am MDT

In rural Oklahoma, Kelli Fields struggles with a dial-up Internet connection so slow she does chores to pass the time while Web sites load. Today, the FCC unveils a plan to get 9 out of 10 Americans on broadband by 2020.

Twitter CEO unveils '@anywhere' feature

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 4:33pm MDT

Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a product Monday that will further integrate Twitter feeds into other Web sites.

Hate speech infiltrates social-networking sites, report says

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 2:37pm MDT

The unregulated nature of the Web has aided a proliferation of cyber-hate, according to a report the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance released Monday.

FCC releases 'broadband plan' details

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 1:52pm MDT

Sick of slow Internet connections? The federal government hears you. The FCC on Monday unveiled some details of its "broadband plan," which aims to make high-speed Internet available to more Americans.

Airline boarding pass? It's your phone

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 10:18am MDT

More air travelers may soon be scanning their smartphones instead of paper slips at airport gates.

Clinic uses iris scans to identify patients

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 6:48am MDT

Rafael Fernandez walks into the Bronx, New York, medical clinic, with his eyes wide open.

First dot.com domain is 25 years old today

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:09am MDT

These days, when everyone seems to have a Facebook friend, is LinkedIn or can Google themselves, it's hard to remember the old days, before the dot-com revolution.

New Digg more personal, 'wicked fast'

Posted: March 14th, 2010, 5:39pm MDT

The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast," according to its makers.

Are we close to real real-time Web?

Posted: March 13th, 2010, 5:52pm MST

An Internet that gives people the information they want virtually as soon as it's created is getting closer, according to Internet professionals.

Opera browser for iPhone may be 'weeks' away

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 8:19pm MST

The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday.

MIT researchers discover new energy source

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 4:17pm MST

It's so tiny, you can't see it with the naked eye.

Beheaded Vikings found at Olympic site

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 12:02pm MST

They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave.

Foursquare takes lead in where-am-I apps

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 7:37am MST

In March 2009, Foursquare's founders journeyed to Austin, Texas, to announce their concept: a smartphone app that lets you tell friends where you are. A year later, their location-based networking service is catching on.

SXSW to host 'nerd' networking

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 6:59am MST

South by Southwest Interactive, which kicks off today, is billed as a showcase for the brightest minds in technology and a place to see the latest Internet innovations. Here's why it matters.

On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 6:53am MST

The sound of meditation for some people is full of deep breaths or gentle humming. For Marc Umile, it's "3.14159265358979..."

YouTube gives Bahraini youth window to world

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 6:12am MST

Esra'a al Shafei is a 23-year-old Bahraini dedicated to providing young people in the region with the opportunity of free expression.

How safe is cloud computing?

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 12:36am MST

Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.

Opinion: Why Assassin's Creed 2 is no fun

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:37am MST

Let's imagine this terrifying scenario for a moment. You come home from a long day of work and sit in front of your computer to try out your newly purchased copy of the video game Assassin's Creed 2, and then ... nothing happens. You face an immobile title screen. You check to make sure everything's plugged in -- yup, sure is -- and simply cannot figure out what's going on. "Why doesn't this game work? It cost me $60!"

Sony unveils Move, its PS3 motion controller

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:44am MST

On Wednesday, Sony unveiled Move, its motion-sensitive controller.

10 hot new iPhone games for everyone

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:55am MST

Reports from this week's Game Developers Conference make one thing clear: Games on mobile phones are not just a niche category anymore. Here are 10 hot games for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Telecom king unseats Bill Gates atop richest list

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:59am MST

Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top.

Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:27pm MST

The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks.

AT&T tries to avoid outages at SXSW conference

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:56pm MST

On Friday, the major movers in the tech industry will gather in Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest Interactive Conference.

Google adds bike routes to online maps

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:10am MST

Peter Smith was riding his bike down a particularly busy road in Austin, Texas, when, amid a frightening blur of big-truck traffic, a thought hit him:

The top 10 geek anthems of all time

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:29am MST

Geeks rock! In honor of the South by Southwest festival's convergence of techie and music culture, we rank the top 10 geek-rock tunes of all time, from "She Blinded Me with Science" to "Particle Man."

Anti-candidate Web site asks public for dirt

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:19am MST

Democrats opposed to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign are hoping to get an assist from the public in their latest bid to push voters away from the Republican candidate.

Environmentalist: It's becoming a plastic world

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:35am MST

Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

At conference, iPhone games break out

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:22am MST

This week's Game Developers Conference reinforces the iPhone's status as a top gaming platform. For the first time, the GDC advisory board is devoting an entire summit to Apple's smartphone.

Driver: My Prius took me for a scary ride

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:32am MST

The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.

Residents use social media to fight crime in Mexico

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:25am MST

Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels' efforts to limit information.

Gamers pumped up for 'God of War III'

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:52am MST

The most anticipated game of 2010 is due out on March 16. High-profile games rarely live up to massive hype, but early reports on "God of War III" -- in which gamers battle gods from Greek mythology -- have been glowing.

Social media at work -- ban or boon?

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:49am MST

Social media are, by definition, supposed to be a social experience. Make a profile and start connecting. Reach out to friends, old and new. Post a profile picture, and while you're at it upload a photo album of your trip to Greece so others can see and comment.

Plastic boat to set sail with environmental message

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:31am MST

What do you get when you cross thousands of plastic water bottles with an adventure-loving entrepreneur? A boat, of course, designed to carry a team of scientists, adventurers and artists halfway around the world.

Scientists: Asteroid killed dinosaurs

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:26am MST

A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid killed off dinosaurs and a majority of other species on Earth more than 65 million years ago.

Police: Couple raised virtual child, ignored real one

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 6:21am MST

Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.

Green living with Ed Begley Jr.

Posted: March 6th, 2010, 11:14pm MST

Actor Ed Begley Jr., best known for his roles in "St. Elsewhere", "The West Wing", "Best in Show" (he's also twice appeared on "The Simpsons") is the star of "Living with Ed".

Online dating liars: Why they do it

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:54pm MST

Are you worried that the perfect person you've been chatting with via an online dating site may be lying to you? A new study finds out which people looking for love are more likely to fib.

Time-lapse photos: Old trick is new again

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 9:58am MST

Time was, if you wanted to make a time-lapse film, first you had to build a machine.

Apple's iPad to be released April 3

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 7:57am MST

Apple's eagerly anticipated iPad will be available in the United States on April 3, the company said Friday.

Is chasing cybercrooks worth it?

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 6:49am MST

This week's arrests of three men in connection with a massive computer-virus scheme may seem like great news. But some cybersecurity experts say the "get-the-bad-guys" effort is a futile way to secure the Internet.

Cashmore: Why I'm banking on Facebook

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 3:25pm MST

We already connect with friends on Facebook to share photos, videos, text updates and Web links, but might we also use the service to exchange money?

CNN Fact Check: Are recent earthquakes connected?

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 3:04pm MST

On January 12, a magnitude-7.0 quake struck Haiti just southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince. On February 27, an 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile near that nation's second largest city, Concepcion. That same day there was a 7.0 quake off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, and just this week a 6.4 quake hit southern Taiwan.

'Mad Men,' Muppets top Twitter's Shorty Awards

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 1:53pm MST

The hard-boozing characters of "Mad Men" and the Muppets of "Sesame Street" were among the big winners of this year's Shorty Awards, which honor the top micro-bloggers of Twitter.

Q&A: The science behind deadly waves

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 1:00pm MST

Two people were killed when unusually large and powerful waves crashed into a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea this week.

Is Apple launching a patent war?

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 11:54am MST

First, there was the Macintosh. Then it was the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad. Next up in Apple's arsenal: The lawyers.

Israel cancels raid because of Facebook post

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 11:39am MST

The Israel Defense Forces called off a raid after one of its combat soldiers posted information about the operation, including the time and place, on Facebook, the IDF said Wednesday.

Why Italy's Google verdict won't stop hate speech

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 9:21am MST

The Internet is awash with hate. It is the favorite tool of racists, anti-Semites, homophobes and other bigots. They host Web sites, upload videos and post comments intended to propagate the lies of prejudice, to recruit like-minded haters, to mislead children and to hurt minorities.

'Funeral' being held today for aging IE6

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 7:06am MST

A mock funeral is being held in Colorado Thursday for an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser is actually still widely used, but Google's decision to phase out IE6 may hasten its demise.

Denmark strikes a blow for wind power

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:54pm MST

Wind power provides a fifth of Denmark's electricity, most of it generated by giant wind farms built on land and in the country's coastal waters.

Behind OK Go's cool viral video

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:48pm MST

In music, timing is everything.

Electronic 'iShoe' aims to prevent falls

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 11:47am MST

Erez Lieberman-Aiden had a nagging feeling that his grandmother's death, which occurred after a hard fall, could have been prevented.

Three arrested in global hacking scheme

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:52am MST

Authorities have arrested three Spaniards suspected of infecting 13 million computers with a program that allowed them to steal personal and financial data worldwide, Spain's Civil Guard said Wednesday.

Study: Google-China attack driven by amateurs

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 12:38am MST

The computer attack which led Google to threaten leaving China and created a firestorm between Washington and Beijing appears to have been deployed by amateurs, according to an analysis by a U.S. technology firm.

TiVo adds Web, music, movies

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 5:07pm MST

TiVo subscribers will be able to pull Internet content, music and movies onto their televisions more easily with new devices the digital-video recorder company announced Tuesday.

Opinion: The case for captive animals

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 2:51pm MST

The tragic death of a trainer at Sea World last week revived a number of long simmering questions. While we still grapple with "how did this happen?" the central question for many revolves around the role of large mammals -- like Tilikum the killer whale -- in zoos and aquariums: Should they be there or not?

Congress hears testimony on the Web and human rights

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 2:48pm MST

"If it were not for the Internet, God knows how many more people would have been killed on the streets of Tehran" after the 2009 Iranian elections, an Iranian blogger told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.

Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas'

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 2:15pm MST

The mayor of Topeka, Kansas, has unofficially changed the city's name to "Google" for a month in the hopes of luring a Google project to build high-speed Internet networks there. (The above photo is a CNN illustration.)

Skype on TV: Has the videophone finally arrived?

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 10:38am MST

The imagined inventions of Victorian-era French novelist Albert Robida may be coming closer to reality.

In search of an earthquake-proof building

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 7:02am MST

It's a sobering fact: Earthquakes alone don't kill people; collapsed buildings do. The quakes in Chile and Haiti have brought attention to the latest in "earthquake-proof" building technology.

Chile quake might have shortened days on Earth

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 2:26am MST

The massive earthquake that struck Chile last week might have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.

Weed killer 'castrates' male frogs, study says

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 8:06pm MST

Atrazine, a weed killer widely used in the Midwestern United States and other agricultural areas of the world, can chemically "castrate" male frogs and turn some into females, according to a new study.

Four indicted in online ticket-hacking scheme

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 8:02pm MST

Federal prosecutors say four men hacked the computer systems of online ticket vendors and bought up 1.5 million tickets to prime concerts, sporting events and live performances in an elaborate scheme that netted them more than $25 million.

How to rebuild your image online

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 7:21pm MST

If Tiger Woods was hoping his public apology last month would help restore his damaged reputation, he may be disappointed.

Survey: More Americans getting news via Facebook, e-mail

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 10:12am MST

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.

iReporters share cell- phone pics

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:11am MST

Welcome to Weekend Assignment

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 7:31am MST

CNN iReport is excited to announce the launch of Weekend Assignment -- eight weeks of fun, creative and engaging mini-challenges we can work on together.

Online game seeks to empower Africa

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 7:25am MST

Jane McGonigal's latest online video game, "Urgent Evoke," kicks off this week with an ambitious goal: To empower gamers to seek solutions for real-world problems in Africa.

Microsoft to offer European users browser choice

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 6:22am MST

Microsoft is to offer its European users the chance to use a Web browser other than its own.

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