Bebo founder drops $1 million at charity auction
Michael Birch, who sold his site to AOL for $850 million, announced that he would match all of the proceeds at Monday night's Charity Water benefit up to $1 million.
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Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud goes public
As part of a full public beta, all users of Amazon's EC2 cloud-computing services can access its Virtual Private Cloud.
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Tech coalition: You need real-time energy data
Google, GE, and others push governments at Cop15 climate talks to give consumers better tools to promote energy efficiency and enable the smart grid.
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Putting Amazon's spot pricing into perspective
In a trend-setting move, Amazon Web Services announces its new spot-pricing option. It may be exciting, but it is important to keep perspective: Amazon--not any market--is still setting the price.
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Australia moves toward mandatory ISP filtering
Government to introduce amendments to the broadcasting act, which will by 2011 require all ISPs to block certain material hosted on overseas servers.
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Certified green home gets high-tech touches
A Rhode Island homeowner gets LEED certification for an energy-efficient house that uses an automation system to access entertainment and to monitor electricity use.
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Microsoft's server chief talks cloud (Q&A)
Division president Bob Muglia talks about the future of Windows Server and Windows Azure and defends against claims Microsoft has no future in the consumer space.
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Charting a course from virtual reality to the White House
President Obama's deputy CTO was a leading legal expert on virtual worlds and tech patent issues before joining the administration.
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Inside the Google phone: A 'snappy' chip
The Google phone will be the first non-Windows smartphone to use the screamingly fast Qualcomm Snapdragon.
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Microsoft pulls China blog site amid code-theft charges
The software maker says it is still investigating allegations that MSN China's Juku microblogging site improperly uses code from a rival service.
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New technology makes for more accurate guns
A new device called Opti-sight, developed by a professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, will supposedly help your aim be more deadly.
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MySpace eyes Flixster for acquisition
After snapping up music start-ups Imeem and iLike, MySpace has apparently turned its attentions toward Flixster, a popular social-networking site for movies.
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Does Twitter mean business with 'Contributors' test?
Twitter is launching a small test of a new business-oriented feature called "Contributors." Might this signal the impending launch of Twitter business accounts?
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High volume of Mac sales may account for iMac delay
While the speculation is that graphics issues have forced Apple to delay shipments of its 27-inch iMacs, new data from NPD suggests high sales volumes could be to blame.
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Adobe investigating Reader, Acrobat exploit reports
Adobe partners warn the company of an exploit in the wild targeting a vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat 9.2.
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Blippy launches the Twitter of personal finance
There's more to this service than sharing spending data with friends, thank goodness.
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Best Buy, Samsung, others named in GPL suit
Case filed Monday in New York by the Software Freedom Law Center alleges 14 electronics retailers sold products containing BusyBox software in violation of license.
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Microsoft investigating charges it stole rival's code
Company issues statement saying it's looking further into allegations that it used a rival's code and design for a microblogging service in China.
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FCC approves Nexus One with T-Mobile 3G
The HTC Nexus One wins FCC approval with support for North American and T-Mobile's 1700 3G network.
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Radiologists rally behind imaging app OsiriX
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are throwing their weight behind a medical imaging app--created by radiologists--that can aid in diagnosing acute appendicitis with surprising accuracy.
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Futuristic tech for daily living outshines outer space in 2009
Despite a few big space discoveries being made, cutting edge breakthroughs were concentrated on solving earthbound problems this year.
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