New York church brings Good Friday to Twitter
Trinity Wall Street, a tech-savvy Episcopal church in downtown Manhattan, has created a Twitter account that stages the story of Jesus' crucifixion.
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Week in review: Powerless to protect power grid?
U.S. power grid may be vulnerable, while Conficker appears to be rising from the dead. Also: piracy's cost.
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Look out, Outlook: Gmail adds in-line images
A new Gmail labs add-on lets you insert images directly into your messages, bringing the Web mail client closer to feeling like a standard software mail service.
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Webware Radar: Get 5,000 music tracks for free
Also: Geico has launched its own interactive car enthusiast site, Socialtext has raised $4.5 million in a new round of funding, and SmartyPig has a new mobile site.
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Apple nearing 1 billion apps served
Company plans to give away a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate along with some Apple gear to the person lucky enough to download the 1 billionth iPhone or iPod Touch application.
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Rescue shuttle prepped for trip to launch pad
Space shuttle Endeavour, the emergency rescue ship for the shuttle Atlantis' crew in case of trouble during next month's Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, is being prepped for rollout to the launch pad.
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Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut
AT&T said that service is back up in the San Jose, Calif., area after four of the company's four fiber-optic cables there were cut on Thursday.
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Nudity can't make a bad game good
Don Reisinger recently played a game on the PS3 containing nudity. It didn't do much for him.
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Report: Yahoo, Microsoft CEOs meet face to face
The two sides have reportedly had preliminary talks in recent weeks exploring what kind of a search partnership might be possible.
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IDC: Linux spending set to boom by 21 percent in 2009
Linux is expected to outpace the overall software market by a healthy clip in 2009--and continue to grow beyond.
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Google Street View camera + low bridge = uh-oh
Google's car-mounted Street View camera sometimes captures the outside world's mini-dramas. This time it caught one of its own.
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Researchers build 'flying' micro-robot
The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
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BuyYourFriendaDrink gets bought
The remote drink-buying company is acquired by Living Social, best known as the creator of the "Pick Your Five" preference-ranking app for Facebook and the like.
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Just how vulnerable is the electrical grid?
Experts say critical infrastructure in the U.S. is at risk of cyberattacks as utilities increasingly rely on the public Internet, deploy unsafe smart-grid technology, and fail to take adequate security precautions.
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In new Microsoft ad, it takes a long time to buy a PC
The latest "laptop hunters" ad keeps hammering Apple on every conceivable aspect. But why does it seem to take 11-year-old Jackson and his mom, Lisa, a long time to buy their PC?
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Report: IBM researcher says Moore's Law at end
IBM Fellow Carl Anderson says at a conference this week that Moore's Law is hitting a ceiling, according to a report.
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Yahoo Mail suffers 'brief' outage
A small fraction of people couldn't use the online e-mail service Thursday, the Internet pioneer says.
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Online Office gives Microsoft Open Web religion
Microsoft promotes its own Silverlight for building fancy Web applications. But to ensure wide availability, the online version of Office 14 will rely on JavaScript.
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Domain Pigeon now finds open Twitter names
Domainsquatting is one thing, but what about Twittersquatting? Domain search tool Domain Pigeon is now showing users which usernames are still open.
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Planned Florida city aims for solar self-sufficiency
Florida Power & Light plans to build the world's largest solar photovoltaic power plant at Babcock Ranch--making it the world's first city powered by solar energy.
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