Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO
Monday, January 05, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the company....
Even in recession, CES to have stuff worth seeing
Monday, January 05, 2009
The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week''s International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to those of past years....
Recession to steal some glitz from gadget show
Sunday, January 04, 2009
The International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the U.S., opens this week in Las Vegas with a full slate of giant TVs and inventive gadgets, despite the pall of a recession hanging over the industry....
MySpace is research place for busybody 'Dr. Meg'
Monday, January 05, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named 'Dr. Meg.' The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encourage safer Internet use....
LG high-def TVs to stream Netflix videos directly
Monday, January 05, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Netflix Inc. has come up with another way to get movies to people without sending DVDs in the mail....
Feds start wait list for DTV converter box coupons
Monday, January 05, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month''s transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover, the Commerce Department said Monday....
China targets Google in pornography crackdown
Monday, January 05, 2009
BEIJING (AP) -- China warned Google and other popular Web portals Monday that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users, the latest in a series of government crackdowns targeting Internet content....
Madoff victims selling memorabilia on eBay
Sunday, January 04, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Did you get fleeced by Bernard Madoff? Or did you buy that Madoff Securities fleece jacket on eBay?...
Wikipedia meets $6 million fundraising goal
Friday, January 02, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008....
Facebook nudity policy draws nursing moms' ire
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites'' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members....
