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Mobile apps can give careers, job searches a boost (A few seconds ago)
Your career is about to get a boost from some mobile apps. And your on-the-go life could be a little better, less cluttered and more informed as a result of embracing use-anywhere tech tools.
Employment - Business and Economy - Canada - Job Search - Business
Startups are looking beyond résumés and interviews in search for employees (A few seconds ago)
When Michael Glukhovsky and Slava Akhmechet, the founders of RethinkDB, a database technology startup that changes how people store and access data, received $1.2 million in funding this year, they began looking for their first employee. They turned to job boards. They recruited from their site. ...
Search - United States - Relationships - Personals - Twitter
Don't look for Adobe Flash on Apple's iPads, iPhones soon (A few seconds ago)
I was traveling last week to cover Apple's iPod and Apple TV event Wednesday (and writing an extra column based on that). So this week, I offer questions taken from Friday's Web chat .
Apple - Adobe Systems - Multimedia - Development Frameworks - IPhone
Texas attorney general to investigate complaints about Google's search engine (23 hours ago)
SAN FRANCISCO - Google's methods for recommending Web sites are being reviewed by the Texas state attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine.
Google - Web search engine - Microsoft - Searching - Search Engines
Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro (Yesterday)
Rob Pegoraro answers your questions on recent gadget reviews, technology news and provides personal tech buying and fixing advice.
United States - Companies - Product Support - Independent Tech Support - Business
AOL-Google revenue-sharing pact includes mobile, online video services (Yesterday)
AOL and Google announced Thursday a five-year renewal of their revenue-sharing pact, which will now include mobile search and online video, two areas that AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong called critical to the future of his company as it tries to revamp and return to profitability.
Google - AOL - Search Engines - Searching - YouTube
Featured Advertiser (Yesterday)
Crash of Va. computer network has implications for tech world, state politics (2 days ago)
RICHMOND -- The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country.
Politics - United States - Transportation - Aviation - Accidents
Apple event streaming live (3 days ago)
Apple made the unusual move this week of saying it would post a live video stream of its 1 p.m. media event. Usually you have to be in the audience with Steve Jobs to hear the announcements live.
Apple - Macintosh - Streaming media - Apple II - Companies
Cyber-bullying defies traditional school bully stereotype (2 days ago)
The advent of social networking sites and text messaging has allowed young girls the opportunity to take on a role traditionally reserved for boys, experts say.
Bully - Youth - Violence and Abuse - Workplace Discrimination - Work
Fairfax County crime report (2 days ago)
The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.
United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County
No timetable set for return of Va. DMV licensing service (3 days ago)
A computer outage that has wreaked havoc on Virginia state agencies entered its seventh day Wednesday, and officials acknowledged that the failure was more complicated than they originally thought.
United States - Business - Government - Season - Training camp
Judge rejects Ken Cuccinelli's probe of U-Va. global warming records (4 days ago)
RICHMOND -- A Virginia judge on Monday dismissed a civil subpoena issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II to the University of Virginia that had sought documents related to the work of a global warming scientist and former university professor.
Ken Cuccinelli - Climate change - Environment - Opposing Views - University of Virginia
Virginia DMV licensing services will be stalled until at least Wednesday (4 days ago)
An unprecedented statewide computer outage that has kept the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing new or replacement driver's licenses will continue through Tuesday, prompting Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to call for a probe into the failure and law enforcement agencies to issue blanket...
Virginia - United States - Law - Business and Economy - Government
Why the FCC can't do its job on broadband access (4 days ago)
The Aug. 26 editorial " An open, innovative Internet " wrongly stated that a court decided the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over Internet service providers. What the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said was that the section (Title I) of the communications statute cited by agency...
Federal Communications Commission - FCC - Telecommunication - Computers and Internet - Business and Economy
Obama to loosen rules on technology exports (5 days ago)
Barack Obama - United States - President - Government - Elections
Troves of lithium, valuable for batteries, boost mood in Bolivia and Afghanistan (4 days ago)
In June, the Department of Defense announced that the mineral wealth of Afghanistan -- including iron, copper, gold and lithium -- might be worth more than $900 billion. Despite the historic importance of the first three, lithium seemed to be the material that most excited Pentagon officials, who...
Bolivia - Afghanistan - South America - Lithium - Batteries
SCIENCE SCAN (4 days ago)
Educational Resources - Magazines and E-zines - Technology - Magnetic resonance imaging - Facial recognition system
Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health' (4 days ago)
In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images.
Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems
Featured Advertiser (4 days ago)
Faster Forward: Verizon ups DSL speeds to 10 to 15 Mbps (5 days ago)
Broadband users in a hurry now have a faster option from Verizon -- an upgraded version of its digital-subscriber-line service that comes a lot closer to the speed of its Fios access. The company announced this morning that it is selling a faster DSL tier, with download speeds of 10 to 15 millio...
Digital Subscriber Line - DSL - Internet service provider - Access Providers - Business
Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House (6 days ago)
Top aides to President George W. Bush seemed unconcerned amid multiple warnings as early as 2002 that the White House risked losing millions of e-mails that federal law required them to preserve, according to an extensive review of records set for release Monday.
White House - President - United States - Government - Executive Branch
Too much Tweeting from Twitter friends? There's an iPhone app for that -- and some other ways to get anti-social on networks (6 days ago)
The technology that turned people into 24/7 communicators has spawned a tool kit that discreetly lets users be just a tad antisocial on their own networks.
Etiquette - Relationships - Arts - Recreation - Travel
Knowland Group became one of the fastest-growing companies by taking photos of signs (6 days ago)
One of the best things about writing Value Added is that I discover niche businesses that astonish me.
Business - Knowland Group - Business and Economy - Recreation - Small business
First tests for stem cell therapy are near (6 days ago)
Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly approaching: the world's first attempt to carefully test the cells in people.
Stem cell - Biology - Biotechnology - Products and Services - Research Groups and Centers
Pentagon considers preemptive strikes as part of cyber-defense strategy (6 days ago)
The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.
Preemptive war - United States - Pentagon - September 11 2001 - Terrorism
Debating Judge Lamberth's stem-cell ruling (6 days ago)
I am profoundly disappointed in U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's injunction [" Judge blocks stem cell rules ," front page, Aug. 24].
Biotechnology - Stem cell - Biology - Science and Technology - Stem Cell Research
Google moving into Facebook territory with eye on social networking games (6 days ago)
The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: "Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon." That line from Kevin Rose, the tech entrepreneur who founded the content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to fundamentally change.
Facebook - Google - Social network - Online Communities - Searching
Back-to-school shopping goes mobile (6 days ago)
Back-to-school shopping deals are just a text message away this year as retailers wade into the brave new world of mobile commerce.
Business and Economy - Telecommunications - Mobile phone - Mobile - Communications
HP outbids Dell for 3Par with $1.88 billion offer (7 days ago)
SEATTLE - Hewlett-Packard boosted its bid for 3Par to $1.88 billion Friday, topping Dell's offer by 11 percent and again raising the stakes in the bidding contest for the data-storage company.
Hewlett-Packard - Dell - HP - HP 3000 - Unix
Microsoft co-founder Allen sues Apple, Google, other tech giants over patents (7 days ago)
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lobbed a patent violation lawsuit at some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies on Friday, accusing them of using ideas hatched at one of his former businesses.
Google - Microsoft - Apple - Facebook - Paul Allen
OK Go on net neutrality: A lesson from the music industry (6 days ago)
On the Internet, when I send my ones and zeros somewhere, they shouldn't have to wait in line behind the ones and zeros of wealthier people or corporations. That's the way the Net was designed, and it's central to a concept called "net neutrality," which ensures that Internet service providers can't...
Music - Google - Business - Network neutrality - Arts and Entertainment
Featured Advertiser (6 days ago)
Google continues its assault on the price of a phone call (6 days ago)
What's a phone call worth these days? A Verizon phone booth in a Metro station suggests one answer: 50 cents. Another comes from Verizon's cheapest landline service option, which charges 10.2 cents a call. If you use a cellphone or subscribe to a voice-over-Internet-Protocol calling plan, the num...
Google - Search - Search Engines - Companies - Skype
How the FCC can best regulate the Internet (8/26/2010)
FOR MORE THAN a decade, "net neutrality" -- a commitment not to discriminate in the transmission of Internet content -- has been a rule tacitly understood by Internet users and providers alike.
Telecommunication - Regulation - Business - Licensing - Federal Communications Commission
A judge blocks federal funding for stem cell research (8/26/2010)
THIS WEEK, a D.C. federal trial judge put a temporary halt to federally funded research on embryonic stem cells, concluding that current law prohibits the use of such money for work in which an embryo is damaged or destroyed. The decision is unnecessarily disruptive, creating uncertainty about the...
Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology - Stem Cell Research - Science and Technology