If only Indy could use his whip on bad reviewers. Despite a military-like effort to keep 'Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull' under top-secret wraps until its Cannes opening, several underground reviews surfaced on the Internet this week, with one of them castigating the movie as 'the Indiana movie that you were...

After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing...

Washington, May 17 : Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a technique to sort carbon nanotubes by length....

London, May 17 : A majority of kids in Britain believe that playing violent computer games, such as the recently launched Grand Theft Auto IV, are responsible for aggressive behaviour, according to a new...

London, May 16 : Climate scientists have called for a massive investment in computer and research resources to help revolutionize modeling capabilities, with their eventual aim being providing probabilistic climate predictions that are as useful, and usable, as weather...

Washington, May 16 : Scientists are developing technology that could one day help in building three dimensional 'super road maps' of planets and moons....

Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 00:00 CDT Former Manning, Selvage & Lee telecoms chief Justin Hayward has started as comms director at high-tech domain start-up company Telnic. Hayward moved last...

A seminar on Computer Addiction is being held as part of the ongoing formation programme which KDZ designs for youth pastoral operators and other people who work closely with young people. KDZ...

-- A 23-year-old man who died after being stabbed and crashing his car in the South of Market area of San Francisco was a drug addict who had been trying to quit with the help of a local emergency...

-- A Berkeley man was charged Friday with murdering a youth sports coach and wounding another man near the UC Berkeley campus in a shooting that a prosecutor said stemmed from "some perception of...

The Governor's Office of Economic Development board has agreed to offer tax-rebate incentives of up to $15,124,000 to software giant Oracle Corp., which is looking for a place to construct a data...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court...

-- Eighteen people were injured - three of them seriously - Friday night when a carnival ride collapsed at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp in the Gold Country,...

-- Robert Mondavi, the charismatic Napa Valley vintner whose work helped establish California wines as among the world's best, died Friday morning. He was 94. A spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi...

-- Two Modesto men are facing mandatory 20-year prison sentences after being convicted of running a medical-marijuana operation that federal prosecutors labeled a criminal enterprise, authorities...

-- The California Highway Patrol herded cattle on Highway 4, well, until the cows came home and managed to reopen the busy roadway in time for today's commute. Problem is, some of the cows didn't...

-- Spring weather around the Bay Area Friday again seemed more like a midsummer day in Texas. Temperatures remained well above normal but depending on the location, it may have been hotter, cooler...

A day after the state Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples should have the right to marry in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he supports the court's decision even though...

(05-17) 00:16 PDT Angels Camp, CA (AP) -- State accident investigators were trying to determine what caused a Calaveras County Fair carnival ride to collapse and injure all 24 people on board. The...

Construction of apartments and condominiums led national housing starts to their biggest increase in more than two years last month, a trend likely to have occurred on the state level as well. But...

YANGON (Reuters) - With state TV only showing footage of generals handing out food at model tented villages, people in Myanmar are snapping up bootleg video discs of bloated corpses, desperate...

. Snackr describes itself as being an RSS ticker. It provides a constant river of news on your screen. Built with Adobe AIR, it is compatible across all platforms and looks really slick. Snackr...

is belly-mounted in a retractable turret, which conserves cabin space and payload capacity; (weigh was one factor that id in the .50s.) Because it receives input from the aircraft's vehicle...

(file) (Getty Images) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri lawmakers have approved a bill making cyber harassment illegal. The measure is in response to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier....

The AOL Running Man logo decorates a coffee mug in AOL's New York office on Monday, May 12, 2008. A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses, AOL is shifting its focus toward serving...

HAVANA – A top Cuban official said Friday that Raul Castro's government would consider loosening Internet restrictions on ordinary citizens newly allowed to purchase computers – but...

Ecuadorian Justice Minister Gustavo Jalkh Friday rejected a report by the International Police (Interpol) about analysis results on computers captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....

NEW DELHI: In the wake of Jaipur bomb blasts, the government on Friday unveiled its plan to acquire a sophisticated system from an American company, which, it said, would substantially enhance...

Now, I don't know about you, but iPod or no iPod, I really don't expect to be crushed horribly from above by a wildly flailing helicopter when picking up my mail. On top of that, I really don't fancy...

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested in New Jersey after allegedly surfing social networking Web sites. They are believed to be the first charged under a new law...

5/16/2008, 9:33 p.m. EDT BRYAN, Texas (AP) — A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said...

Washington - You spend a lot of time staring at your computer's liquid crystal display (LCD). That's why you owe it to yourself to ensure that your LCD is giving you the best picture that it can....

, Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group for consumer PCs, said that it plans to introduce a new line of devices this fall that will be designed by teens, for teens. "We've used...

has a good recap of the blow-by-blow.) I'm not sure how many people believe that explanation. Privacy is a convenient dodge, but this sounds more like land grab battle between the rival services....

Nintendo Co Ltd now aims to shatter that image with a game that aims to get players off the couch and lead them to stretch, shake and sweat their way to a healthy...

in February. Yahoo wants to keep the documents redacted, but Joel Friedlander, the attorney representing the shareholders, accused Yahoo of trying "to whitewash embarrassing documents" so they...

Craigslist filed a countersuit this week in state Superior Court in San Francisco alleging the online auctioneer broke state and federal antitrust...

In this photo provided by Sling Media, the SlingModem is shown. EchoStar Corp. on Sunday, May 18, 2008 will be demonstrating its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit...

Once your meeting is set up, the system e-mails the other attendees with your plans. They can propose new times and places. The whole back-and-forth is captured on your event's dedicated page. Once...

Google is hosting a media circus, or "Factory Tour," at its Mountain View campus on Monday morning. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, will be speaking. At other events I've...

(05-16) 18:52 PDT Louisville, Ky. (AP) -- Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech Friday to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving...

AUSTIN, Texas--"It's like a great big grilled cheese sandwich machine." That's how solar power company HelioVolt's vice president of marketing and sales, John Langdon, describes the company's...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT By Edwin Garcia, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. May 15--SACRAMENTO -- Declaring that California state government is moving "full steam ahead" in improving...

Why Charter Communications' ad-serving plan is making waves; the Senate moves to curb online child porn; and industrial Pittsburgh sets an environmental...

For all the crap Palm gets about its lack of innovation, it's still got a pretty loyal fanbase so we imagine some of you will be interested in this tidbit. There are various stories around the...

Last week I received an e-mail that I've received many times over, particularly since I've been writing about cell phones. Just one glance at the subject line, "5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell...

Fujitsu PalmSecure is another option. Already in use in hospitals and government offices, the device reads the hand's vein pattern using near-infrared light. This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks...

Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings of its size in the entire...

By DEBORAH YAOAP BUSINESS WRITER PHILADEPHIA -- Cable operators are riding high heading into this year's industry trade show, which kicks off this weekend. After a dismal 2007 in which their...

According to traffic measurements by comScore Inc., AOL has had seven consecutive months of year-over-year growth in both unique visitors and page...