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1. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Boxer of California. Fiorina's entry into the race could present the liberal Boxer with her toughest re-election challenge, but Fiorina has to win a Republican primary against state Assemblyman Chuck ...

2. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... protected by the 2003 religion or belief regulations." Nicholson said he was 'delighted by the judgement for himself and other people who may feel they are discriminated against because of their views ...

3. Astronomers find most distant object yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... Universe was very young and also was undergoing drastic changes. The primal cosmic darkness was being pierced by the light of the first stars and the first galaxies were beginning to form. The star that ...

4. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... still AMD's CEO. Rajaratnam, co-founder of Galleon, and five others are currently facing federal criminal and civil charges. The men are accused of using inside knowledge to help investors make an illegal ...

5. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ...  "But we have had enough of indiscriminate attacks. To vilify all aggregators as "cheap worthless technological news solutions" and "content kleptomaniacs" is just empty rhetoric. Not only is that misleading ...

6. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... Paranjpe drove the global outsourcing flood in the last 10 years, Wipro's primary contribution was leverage of labor arbitrage, an old business model, not true management innovation. However, the pace ...

7. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... much like the Kindle's. However, the Barnes and Noble e-reader also includes a second, smaller multi-touch display tucked away under the primary screen. "What's interesting is that B&N will sell ...

8. Apple Snow Leopard devours user account data

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... restarted and logged into my primary account and guess what!?!? Absolutely everything on the computer got deleted and reset to basically what the computer is from the factory. All programs, documents, ...

9. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... actions such as call blocking.'"Quinn also insisted that Google was "flouting" the so-called "fifth principle of non-discrimination" for which Google has so "fervently" advocated. "According to Google, ...

10. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, shrugged off competition from Apple's iPhone  and RIM's BlackBerry today, maintaining that his firm still held 40 percent of the smartphone market. Oli-Pekka ...

11. Top 13 reader comments revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/x/20...lasma.html  without any link to it whatsoever! Not only it shows the writer has no clue as to what she's talking about, but it's just plan wrong and criminal! At least, ...

12. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    ... used to do analysis real time so that threats to ships, planes, and solders can be better anticipated and mitigated and criminals can be increasingly caught before they commit their next crime.   ...

13. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the primary screen. Finally, Perlmutter spoke about the progression of Intel's mobile processors, which began with Menlow, continued with Moorestown and evolved into Medfield - which is slated for release ...

14. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  "The gap between generations can be attributed to two primary factors. Firstly, the same technological advances that applied to CPUs and GPUs were noticeably absent from USB development. Secondly, the ...

15. Wireless providers wary about net neutrality rules

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Ganachowski yesterday outlined two new principles, non-discrimination and transparency. ISPs would have to offer an equal service to all, and be open about their practices - and not, for example, block ...

16. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the same performance, except via Fusio-IO - but that costs approximately $10,000 for equivalent speeds." According to the spokesperson, RAIDDrive SSDs will be available in three primary configurations: ...

17. Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    UPDATED In what's rapidly turning into a week Dell would really like to forget, the company is in court in New Orleans accused of shady practice in securing a deal to install CCTV cameras in the city, ...

18. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... This is primarily targeted at women who want something very stylish that will fit in a purse and do basic tasks like document and email creation and web browsing.  This is a basic Netbook with a very ...

19. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Gelsinger, who has been at Intel for three decades, co-managed DEG and Sewell served as Intel's general counsel. Suzan Miller, currently deputy general counsel, will take the role of interim general counsel. ...

20. British PM apologises to dead codebreaker Alan Turing

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

      Aah, he's just so tender-hearted, Gordon Brown. The British prime minister has issued an apology to Alan Turing for the way he was treated by the authorities after the second world war. Aah, ...

21. World's quietest room opens for business

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... vibration nanoscience laboratories that are anchored to the rock below. Because of the size of the materials involved - between one and 100 nanometers - complete stillness is essential to an experiment's ...

22. Parents blamed for children cyber sex threats

    (Security/Security Features)

    The policeman in charge of child protection on the internet in the UK has warned that parents are failing to protect children from sexual deviants.The policeman in charge of child protection on the ...

23. Japanese first lady abducted by aliens

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... unexpected boost with the news that new first lady Miyuki Hatoyama visited Venus on a UFO thirty years ago.  Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, won a landslide victory last week and is ...

24. Law makes an ass of donkey bloggers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and Mili sustained leg injuries. The government says that the arrests were not politically motivated and that it is a simple criminal case following a fight in the restaurant: "People are not arrested ...

25. Doctors dubious about internet health information

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... Health System (330 in primary health care and 330 in hospitals). They found that 96 percent had been questioned by their patients about information gleaned from the internet. But the doctors certainly ...

26. iPod grifter sentenced to 13 months

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to create a rather lucrative business by selling the new iPods. Indeed, Ars Technia notes that Woodhams was also forced to forfeit approximately $750,000 worth of criminally acquired assets, including ...

27. NASA research sheds light on early evolution

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... able to use energy from sunlight via photosynthesis. As these double membrane prokaryotes evolved, one type, called cyanobacteria, became the primary oxygen-producers on the planet, generating enough ...

28. Employers peek: It's not just YourSpace, you know

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... at 44 percent. But there were other killer postings, such as bad-mouthing a previous employer, co-workers or clients, at 35 percent, and poor communication skills at 29 percent. Discriminatory comments ...

29. Nuclear fusion research helps advance computer chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... other structures. In experimental fusion reactors, magnetic fields are used to keep plasma-based nuclear fuel from touching the metal walls of the containment vessel. HEIGHTS simulates the entire process ...

30. Police hacker informer stole 130 million credit card details

    (Security/Security Features)

    A US hacker who once informed on the criminal underworld for the secret service has been working with Russian criminals to carry out a series of digital burglaries, prosecutors say.A US hacker who once ...

31. NASA to launch inflatable re-entry vehicle

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE) is designed as an outer shell to slow and protect reentry vehicles as they hit the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. IRVE looks like a giant mushroom when it's inflated. ...

32. Top secret US spyplane blamed for spate of UFO sightings

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... experimental flights over the UK. The Scotsman newspaper reported in 1992 that a jet travelling at more than three times the speed of sound was being tested near Machrihanish air base in Argyll. Despite ...

33. Digsby signs up to the darkside

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the largest known prime number.” It means your computer could be used to search the web.  So if anyone worked out how to crack this functionality it could mean your IP address could be fronting all ...

34. Nokia challenges RIM with Microsoft-Symbian alliance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft and Nokia have formed an alliance against RIM by agreeing to jointly develop applications for Symbian-based mobile devices. According to Microsoft, Nokia will begin shipping Office Communicator ...

35. Nokia to put Microsoft Office on its cellphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Android and RIM's Blackberry devices. While the Microsoft-Nokia alliance is interesting, the question remains is whether a user of a little cellphone really wants to be running Excel or Microsoft Word ...

36. Large Hadron Collider to start up at half power

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Rolf Heuer, "because it allows the LHC operators to gain experience of running the machine safely while opening up a new discovery region for the experiments." The procedure for the 2009 start-up will ...

37. Upset your loved ones a bit more when you die

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... here. The messages are personal but most of them are humorous. It also makes you think about smaller details like making sure you remind someone to cancel your bus pass."   The Grim Postman ...

38. Pirate Bay booted out of Netherlands

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... There are so many errors in this lawsuit that it's almost a crime to spend the court's time this way!" said Fredrik Neij, shortly before the hearing. The men say it will be impossible for them to take ...

39. Physicists split the electron

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the experiment revealed how the electron, on entering the quantum wire, had to fall apart into spinons and holons. The conditions comprised a comb of wires above a flat metal cloud of electrons. The ...

40. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... credibility of Bing? Weaken Google, if that is really possible right now? If it was me, it seems somewhat obvious that Microsoft should not be after search traffic primarily. It is Google’s strength that ...

41. Shuttle set for Friday landing

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... landing, which could mean a second attempt at 12:23 pm. Before returning, Endeavour's crew will also launch two small experimental satellites from the shuttle's payload bay.  DRAGONSat will test ...

42. Virgin Galactic showcases WhiteKnightTwo aircraft

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... the largest 100% carbon composite plane in service, as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses composite materials for only 50% of its primary structure.  ...

43. Pentagon blasts computer contractor

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... head of the criminal service’s cyber crimes unit said that the case illustrated 'an on-going problem in protection of Defense Department information that is not under the complete control of the department.' ...

44. Microsoft hands 20,000 lines of code to Linux community

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Microsoft platforms. Today’s release would have been unheard of from Microsoft a few years ago, but it’s a prime example that customer demand is a powerful catalyst for change." Microsoft says it's the ...

45. Researcher terms mobile usability an "oxymoron"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... rate of 80 percent for websites accessed on a regular PC. Researchers also identified four primary obstacles that mobile users faced: Small screens - All interactions became harder to do when users ...

46. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of Apple who has taken share from Microsoft. This is ironic given that Google’s primary revenue source is advertising. But it is clear that Google simply doesn’t understand to advertise itself. If every ...

47. America loves science (well, some of it)

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Opinion)

    ... if you want the prime example of the public's fundamental disagreement with basic scientific tenets, then - you've guessed it - it's the question of human and animal origins. According to the survey, ...

48. Things looking up for semiconductor market, says iSuppli

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... were signs that the economic decline was becoming less pronounced near the end of the first half," adds Ford. "Even after trimming their expectations for the year, key semiconductor companies are entering ...

49. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... are constantly accused of monopolistic and predatory behavior. They are frequently fined the GNP of Belgium for these crimes. Meanwhile, Google is praised to the rooftops for attempting to usurp Microsoft's ...

50. CSI criticizes Microsoft's hack-and-patch strategy

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... executed by "sophisticated actors." "These were not vanity or teenage hacks. Rather, these were individuals who carried out such attacks for national security or criminal advantage. Unfortunately, we ...