Photos: A Passive House in the making
A designer and builder is reconstructing an 1850s home in Boston to be so energy efficient it doesn't need a heater.
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Apple forces Microsoft to change Laptop Hunter ad
Ad featuring Lauren and her mom has been tweaked to remove the line about a Mac being twice the price of a PC. Microsoft acknowledges new Mac pricing necessitated the change.
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Nokia to acquire contact management start-up
Cellity, a tiny German company that makes an address book aggregator, will shut down its service and transfer its team to Nokia.
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New owner for motion power tech
M2E Power, which developed technology for human-power gadget chargers, changes focus to vehicles and sells itself to another energy-harvesting company, according to reports.
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Road Trip pic of the day, 7/24: What and where is this?
Clearly, this outstanding rock formation is different than most others. And it's today's Road Trip picture of the day challenge. Be the first to identify what and where it is, and you'll win a prize.
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Adobe reclaims design guru from Microsoft
Mark Hamburg, instrumental to building Photoshop and Lightroom, has returned to Adobe after working on Microsoft operating system usability.
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Verizon thumps chest after AT&T's subscriber gains
Company releases new subscriber figures a few days ahead of its earnings report. The reason? Must be an alpha thing.
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Commercial open source's awkward teen years
The Web has changed the way software businesses conduct business, but it has yet to match revenue models to delivery mechanisms, leaving a conflict between free-software purists and open-source pragmatists.
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Twitter to revamp home page for the masses
Company's founders acknowledge that new or potential users can be confused by the service's minimalist look, according to AllThingsD.
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This green home will heat itself
A designer takes on a mighty green building challenge: convert an 1850 Boston home into a superinsulated house as energy efficient as the lofty Passive House standard.
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Buy.com, Orbitz linked to controversial marketers
Consumers hold "Web loyalty" companies responsible for mysterious charges on their credit card statements, but prominent e-tailers are still doing business with them.
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Oracle to buy GoldenGate Software
Company acquiring provider of real-time data integration software for an undisclosed amount. GoldenGate tech will help customers pull timely data from different sources.
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Tech industry Brainstorms
Tech's movers and shakers gather at the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech conference to mull tech topics such as content and capital.
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Twitter still doesn't have a head of sales
But, in a speech at the Brainstorm: Tech conference, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone insists that the company knows what it is doing.
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YouTube lets video creators share viewing stats
Site is enabling video owners to share detailed statistics about who else is viewing their videos to the viewers themselves.
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Google's Conway leaves for Andreessen Horowitz
It's the first outside hire for the new $300 million venture fund, started by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
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LongBox aims to be iTunes for comic books
If you've ever wondered why comic books don't have a digital distribution and management platform the way music, movies, or books do, you're not alone. One software company and one man are here to save the day with LongBox.
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Amazon CEO apologizes for Kindle book deletions
A week after Amazon deletes certain books from users' e-book readers, CEO Jeff Bezos has issued an apology.
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Legal advocates push for Google Books privacy
The ACLU, EFF, and UC Berkeley Law Clinic ask Google to protect reader privacy with its Book Search project.
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iPod cases suggest camera on Touch, Nano
Cult of Mac blog gets photos from manufacturers for the upcoming iPod Touch and iPod Nano, which show a slot for a camera on each.
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GPLv3 hits 50 percent adoption
The GPL has hit 50 percent adoption among its GPL-licensed open-source projects, which represents at least 56,000 open-source projects currently licensed under GPLv3.
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