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1. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... which include many single parents, are placed in close proximity to paedophiles and criminals that run sites containing illegal child content. Weigh risks and benefits If you are looking for contacts ...

2. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... that Android is rapidly evolving and responsive to suggestions from OEMs and developers,” he continued. Nokia, RIM and Apple all did well. Apple shipped its highest volume in a single quarter. It is now ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... announced. Ruiz submitted his resignation in September with an effective date of January 4th, 2010. He will be replaced by Alan E. 'Lanny' Ross, who will serve as interim chairman, effective immediately, ...

6. US government opens $9m cyber security center

   (Security/Security Features)

   ... Emergency Readiness Team and the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications. Apparently, US government computer systems are scanned millions of times a day by potential hackers, criminals and ...

7. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... been really boring and primarily revolved around arcane details of software development," wrote Moren. Moren also described Palm as "lazy," and suggested that the corporation design its own Mac-compatible ...

8. Facebook wins $711 million against spammer

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... actually have $711.2 million. "While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals," said Sam O'Rourke in a company ...

9. 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 ...

10. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  More information about the memory cell, cross point array, experiment and results will be published in a joint paper titled "A Stackable Cross Point Phase Change Memory," to be presented at the 2009 ...

11. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of technology and features inherent in Intel processors and complement the capabilities on the software side," said Kaushik. "So, we focused on two primary areas to ensure energy efficiency: timer ...

12. 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 ...

13. iPhone 3GS challenges RIM's control of smartphone market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Carton noted that RIM (Research In Motion) has fallen one point to a 40 percent market share and was currently at its "lowest level" in two years. "RIM is still in second with 27 percent of planned ...

14. Intel optimizes Windows 7 SSD performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... use a Windows 7 attribute - not an acronym - known as Trim to ensure "continued" high performance.  Intel has introduced a solid-state drive toolbox that optimizes 34nm X25-M  SATA SSD performance ...

15. Leaving the iPhone behind

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    ... its primary use is as a cellphone and secondarily as an MP3 player. Its tertiary functions are to read and reply to emails when I'm not at my desk, for which it is, at best, adequate. I use it as a camera ...

16. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Kingston has introduced a bootable 40GB SSD drive. According to company spokesperson David Leong, the SSDNow V drive is "aimed primarily" at desktop users as a "performance upgrade" for existing systems. ...

17. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... suit against Apple for allegedly breaching its patents.He said then: "You have traditional competitors like the Korean and Japanese companies and now we have new competitors like Apple and RIM. We are ...

18. Rumor is Microsoft buying RIM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... is thinking about buying Canadian company RIM - you know that lot that make the BlackBerrys. There's possibly no truth in it whatever, but it makes sense in a perverse way. Microsoft really has got the ...

19. AT&T sues display manufacturers over alleged price fixing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... that LG Display, Sharp and Chunghwa were previously forced to pay $585 million in criminal fines after a US Justice Department probe found the companies guilty of illegally price fixing LCDs used in flat-screen ...

20. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... if ever there was one.In Windows 7's favour, the multi-touch version of the GUI does work well. It appears to be used primarily to showcase what Microsoft is calling 'Surface Globe'. This seems to be Microsoft’s ...

21. BlackBerry gets Bolder with 9700

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Research in Motion (RIM) released the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the high end version of its 9000 Bold series. Research in Motion (RIM) released the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the high end version of its ...

22. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... SSDs are sexy. That's primarily because they have the advantage of being fast, up to 250MB/sec for reads, in some cases. There's no mechanical device scrambling around reading and writing data, so information ...

23. 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 ...

24. Brain is capable of ultra-precise time recognition

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... that code time with extreme precision in the primate brain. These neurons are found in two interconnected brain regions, the prefrontal cortex and the striatum, both of which are known to play critical ...

25. 'World's biggest crater' discovered

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Shiva's outer rim forms a rough, faulted ring some 500km across, encircling a central peak, known as the Bombay High - about three miles tall from the ocean floor. Most of the crater lies submerged on ...

26. 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 ...

27. BlackBerry Storm 2 lays siege to Apple iPhone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Research in Motion (RIM) is readying an all out attack on the successful Apple iPhone with Storm 2 - likely to be released by Verizon in the US in November.Research in Motion (RIM) is readying an all out ...

28. 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 ...

29. Pterosaur discovery points to modular evolution

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... evidence of a controversial type of evolution. Pterodactyls, which ruled the skies around 250 million years ago, fell into two types: primitive long-tailed forms and their descendants, short-tailed pterosaurs, ...

30. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... traditional notebook market remained one of Intel's "primary" drivers of revenue growth and emphasized that notebooks currently "enjoyed" a higher share than desktops. Otellini also commented on his expectations ...

31. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... terms. The history button stores all visited Wikipedia pages and somewhat serves as a back button. The software itself is a primitive web browser that navigates through a compressed html file that is ...

32. 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, ...

33. Radio waves used to see through walls

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... a moving person or object. The devices transmit radio waves at powers 500 times less than a typical cell phone. In their experiments, the team obtained radio signal strength measurements from all the ...

34. Passwords: Methods for a Modern Bane

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... being sought by criminal hackers through various means, the most recent newsworthy event being the massive phishing attacks on Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail accounts. Experts tell us we need to make ...

35. Hadron Collider could test a hyperdrive

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... mass. His experiment could run alongside anything else that the LHC would be doing. And since the experiment wouldn't interfere with the LHC's main business of colliding particles, it could be run in conjunction ...

36. 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, ...

37. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... like Apple, RIM, and Palm, and you have Software Platforms like Windows Mobile and Android.  Then you have Nokia who is both the largest and least aligned vendor in the space, having bought an independent ...

38. 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 ...

39. Scientist recreates Shroud of Turin

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... have been made in the 'primitive Middle Ages'.  They argue that only extreme energy could have created that image, something the Almighty is good at, but Medieval forgers were not up to doing. Armed ...

40. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... in the fast-paced high-tech economy appeared with the dot-com bust at the dawn of this century. Mid-sized companies that primarily drove that growth were hit the hardest. Companies like Sun Microsystems ...

41. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... that Snapdragon chipsets will allow smartbooks to run on one battery charge all day and give customizable interfaces and constant connectivity. Research in Motion (RIM) also said it is joining the Open ...

42. 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, ...

43. Ig Nobel winners beat each other with beer bottles

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle. ...

44. 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.   ...

45. Nvidia says Fermi speculation is "insane"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation Fermi GPU is targeted primarily at the high-performance computing market (HPC) market. Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation ...

46. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    ... valid one, as Orange’s has been recognised as the furthest reaching off all networks, whilst O2’s coverage has been patchy to the point that Ofcom has reprimanded them on it. It is highly likely that ...

47. Oracle fined over "Sun + Oracle is Faster" equation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has reprimanded and fined Oracle for publishing unsubstantiated benchmark results. The violation occurred when Oracle ran an advertisement in The ...

48. Facebook pulls Obama death threat poll

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Facebook has now disabled the entire application. Threatening the life of the president is a crime in the US.  ...

49. AT&T slams Google for 'systematically' blocking telephone calls

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  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, non-discrimination ensures ...

50. Apple plus graphics gurus = semiconductor mystery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... ATI but two. Those two are Bob Drebin, hired away in April and Raju Koduri. Both have a great deal of experience in the graphics business and some have speculated that Apple is experimenting either with ...