The debate over new unlicensed spectrum the Federal Communications Commission is considering opening up is heating up as Google ups the ante with a new lobbying Web site . Google on Monday launched the new site called FreetheAirWaves.com to provide More Here

WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to disclose records about a new class of pesticides that could be playing a role in the disappearance of millions of honeybees in the United States, a lawsuit filed Monday charges More Here

Big Blue is building cloud computing data centers in 10 countries, including China, Japan, Turkey, Poland, France and the United States. BOSTON (Reuters) - IBM plans to spend $300 million this year to build 13 cloud computing data centers where More Here

32-bit Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 as a guest operating system 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.3 as host and guest operating systems 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise linux 5.3 as host and guest operating systems 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat More Here

Trilliant said on Wednesday that it has raised $40 million in equity in one of the largest single-round smart-grid investments to date. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company makes equipment and software for energy-efficiency programs aimed at More Here

Barack Obama’s newly minted running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage Saturday at a rally in this capital city where Obama launched his White House bid, a campaign official said. A senior Obama adviser told Obama faces new criticism on Read More

Partition Recovery has announced How to recover accidentally lost deleted digital photographs, albums from your damaged digital camera, hard disk storage device? Digital picture recovery software recovers deleted pictures, albums and images from Read More

Field Poll Blasts Times Poll: The people who run the Field Poll not only think the L.A. Times poll (showing Davis on the verge of beating the recall) is full of it , they think the L.A. Times ‘ defensive explanation for why its poll is different is Read More

Intel Corporation is holding its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco from August 19-21. Below are brief summaries of each executive s keynote speech and news highlights for Day 1. Patrick Gelsinger, iA=Embedded+Dynamic+Visual Turbo Read More

FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. today announced that media manufactured by Fujifilm for the new Sun StorageTek(TM) T10000B Tape Drive is capable of storing up to three terabytes (TB) of data (using industry standard 3:1 compression). The media More Here

SIMI VALLEY, CA — 08/18/08 — NovaStor, a leading provider of software solutions for data availability and protection, today announced a positive PC World review for NovaBACKUP 10, their latest release combining both local and online data protection More Here

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that long term outcomes for patients suffering from West Nile virus are not as bad as may have once been expected. The study looked at 156 people and found that regardless of how severe a case of West More Here

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) — The New Zealand dollar may rise as investors are attracted to the nation’s higher yields amid signs that economies in Japan and Europe are weakening. The currency has risen from an 11-month low on Aug. 13 and is the best More Here

MONDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) — Chewing gum helps improve recovery of intestinal function after all or part of the colon has been surgically removed, according to British researchers who reviewed data from five clinical trials involving 158 More Here

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose for the first time in three days in New York as a storm near Cuba prompted evacuations from rigs and production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Fay , with maximum sustained winds of about 50 miles More Here

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bolstered by falling oil prices and a rising dollar, stocks could extend their modest gains this week, even in the face of still troubling consumer- and housing-related data. Oil’s downward trend helped boost consumer spending More Here

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - As the US economy appears more than ever linked to the health of the housing market, analysts see no end to falling prices or recovery in the sector before 2009. After several years of a sizzling boom, housing prices in the United More Here

Users of a popular accounting package have been warned not to use the software at public wi-fi hotspots, such as those found in airports, coffee shops and hotels. Users of the 2006 Mac version of Intuit’s QuickBooks software could find that a serious More Here

Recommended An organization’s business continuity plan helps keep critical functions running during an emergency the power fails, a virus is unleashed on your network, a natural disaster has occurred. Even the slightest downtime or loss of data can More Here

NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Bolstered by falling oil prices and a rising dollar, U.S. stocks could extend their modest gains this week, even in the face of still troubling consumer- and housing-related data. Oil’s downward trend helped boost More Here

Food follows a circuitous route to get to food pantries and homeless shelters for people in need. America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest food-bank network, uses Worknet Inc., a Naperville-based technology firm, to host its computer servers More Here

DALLAS Federal authorities are trying to ensure that bus companies ordered to stop operating don’t simply set up shop under a new name, as had allegedly happened in last week’s bus crash in Texas that killed 17, officials said. The Federal Motor Read More

Working out of his Roselle home, 26-year-old Tim Dierkes has turned what used to be his hobby into a career. Dierkes runs mlbtraderumors.com, a Web site where he gathers the latest baseball whispers from journalists covering all 30 major-league teams Read More

You probably already know that you can take that desktop computer you leave on all the time and use its spare computing power to look for extraterrestrial intelligence or a cure for cancer . Swell. But suppose you’re not so much into saving the world Read More

BRANDON A crash on Interstate 380 near the Brandon exit this morning killed two people and shut down the interstate. A female in one passenger car and a person of unknown gender in a van were killed in the crash, according to the Iowa State Read More

Photos courtesy of Bob Rice Robert Rice’s plane after it crashed on a hillside in Guatemala. Rice was transporting an 11-year-old boy to a hospital, as well as the boy’s mother and two other passengers. All survived without serious injury. “It was an Read More

When state troopers arrived at the bloody accident scene, they found bodies strewn everywhere, injured church members moaning in pain, a driver with a checkered history and an illegally operated bus cratered along the side of a Texas highway. The Read More

It took a Sauk County jury only 30 minutes Tuesday afternoon to decide last year’s tragic death of a woman in a car crash at the troublesome intersection of Highway 12 and Highway PF was not a crime. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has Read More

Vacancy rates remain high in the region’s commercial and multifamily sectors, despite the slowest building activity in more than four years, according to a report released Tuesday. The Skyline report is a quarterly economic analysis compiled by the More Here

A small garden gnome, kidnapped seven months ago, has been returned to its owner after a worldwide tour through 12 countries. Eve Stuart-Kelso told the BBC she was stunned to see the gnome, which she called “Murphy,” outside her home in England More Here

ABC News’ Kate Snow reports: A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton’s name to be placed in nomination at next week’s Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC More Here

Changing World Technologies will find out whether there’s money in those hills of garbage. The company, which converts animal and food wastes into diesel fuel and fertilizer, filed paperwork on Tuesday for an initial public offering. It hopes to More Here

I saw a lot of chit chat yesterday about how I was just starting stuff with the Jay-Z and Game ( read that stuff here ) . Wow. Jay once said, Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it? Well, I have collected the data and here More Here

Vital new research & development projects may help British manufacturers to stay ahead of international competition, following the announcement yesterday of 20 million innovation funding by the Government’s Technology Strategy Board . The investments More Here

Twitter extreme eg.–many of us non-users couldn’t perceive benefits. Low barrier made it OK to say, “just try it ” Not true w/all things This is a sometimes overlooked advantage of Software as a Service (SaaS) in its various forms. Even installing More Here

As Russian and Georgian troops fight on the ground, there’s a parallel war happening in cyberspace. In recent weeks, Georgia’s government Web sites have been besieged by denial-of-service attacks and acts of vandalism . Just like in traditional Read More

You probably already know that you can take that desktop computer you leave on all the time and use its spare computing power to look for extraterrestrial intelligence or a cure for cancer . Swell. But suppose you’re not so much into saving the world Read More

A power surge. A computer crash. A stolen laptop. Any of these situations could lead to a loss of data. Data is just a fancy name for all the stuff on your computer you would really miss if you lost it. It s usually stored on your hard Read More

Terrific Tuesday: Science Club: 4:30 p.m. Aug. 19. Ages 5-9 discover the science secrets of ancient Egypt with hands-on activities. Registration begins Aug. 12. Southeast Regional Library, 775 N. Greenfield Road, Gilbert. Free. 602-652-3000. www Read More

Featuring the voices of Samuel L Jackson, Christopher Lee, Matt Lantern, Anthony Daniels and Matthew Wood. Directed by Dave Filoni. JUST when you thought George Lucas had milked his intergalactic cash cow dry with endless re-issues of the Star Wars Read More

Despite the amount of technological barriers to overcome, leaps in reliability and battery life make them a better environmental option for computer storage, if only slightly. The question comes with the news that Dell is now offering the storage Read More

A small garden gnome, kidnapped seven months ago, has been returned to its owner after a worldwide tour through 12 countries. Eve Stuart-Kelso told the BBC she was stunned to see the gnome, which she called “Murphy,” outside her home in England Read More

Vacancy rates remain high in the region’s commercial and multifamily sectors, despite the slowest building activity in more than four years, according to a report released Tuesday. The Skyline report is a quarterly economic analysis compiled by the Read More

ABC News’ Kate Snow reports: A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton’s name to be placed in nomination at next week’s Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC Read More

Your Mac has become instrumental: iPhoto contains your baby photos, iTunes houses a diverse collection of music, and Mail has all your email. And then, one day, without fanfare or warning, your hard drive keels over and dies. Disk repair tools do Read More

Vital new research & development projects may help British manufacturers to stay ahead of international competition, following the announcement yesterday of 20 million innovation funding by the Government’s Technology Strategy Board . The investments Read More

Changing World Technologies will find out whether there’s money in those hills of garbage. The company, which converts animal and food wastes into diesel fuel and fertilizer, filed paperwork on Tuesday for an initial public offering. It hopes to Read More

Twitter extreme eg.–many of us non-users couldn’t perceive benefits. Low barrier made it OK to say, “just try it ” Not true w/all things This is a sometimes overlooked advantage of Software as a Service (SaaS) in its various forms. Even installing Read More

NOVATO, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Fry s Electronics Company, a leading specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics computer hardware and appliances, has formed an exclusive agreement with DriveSavers Data Recovery to offer its customers Cont

EMERYVILLE, Calif. - (Business Wire) EVault , Inc., a Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) company and leader in online backup and recovery, today announced that rising demand for its backup and recovery Software as a Service (SaaS), licensed software and Cont

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — First-time homebuyers, veterans, senior citizens and delinquent mortgage holders may benefit from the newly enacted housing bill. How well it will work may depend on regulators and your bank. The Housing and Economic Recovery Cont

BUDAPEST, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Czech economic growth lost steam in the second quarter and robust Slovak growth also softened while Hungary’s economy picked up, but a slowdown in the euro zone has dented the region’s growth prospects. Czech economic Cont

A technician accused of destroying computer records for indicted Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo has pleaded guilty to 29 obstruction-related counts and will testify against the Democratic power broker. Former state Senate employee Leonard Cont

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BISMARCK, N.D. Delays and production glitches have been common on major computer projects in North Dakota government. Now, the state Legislature, which is laboring to replace its own computer system, is getting its own lesson on how treacherous the Cont