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WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates
Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari
Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Microsoft's "Source Fource" Action Figures
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers
ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database
Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method?
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School
Beryl User Interface for Linux Reviewed
McNealy Says Telcos Falling Behind in Net Race
Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation
Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You
eBay Sues Craigslist
Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware
Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued
Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads
Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets
Diebold Sues Massachusetts for "Wrongful Purchase"
Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist
NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth
OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF
XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998
AT&T Could Cut Off P2P Users
Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL
An iPod For Every Kid In Michigan
Breakpoints have now been patented
Does an Open Java Really Matter?
Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime?
Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality?
Goodbye Cruel Word
Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up?
Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption
Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore
Second Life & WoW Terrorist Training Camps?
The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used
Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping
Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department
YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom
American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested
Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database?
Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit
Non-Competes As the DRM of Human Capital
SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices
Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video
What Vista Is Really Like
Can You Be Sued for Quitting?
What Does Your Dead Man's Switch Do?
Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads
Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation
Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space
4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot
A Hardware-Software Symbiosis
Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans
Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net
Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers
British E-Voting Pilots Announced
Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way?
Couple Bonding Through PC Building
EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal
For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count
G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero?
GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML?
Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
ISO Approves OOXML
Jack Thompson Sues Microsoft
Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why
Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks
Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks
Mash Apache Derby with New OpenOffice 2.0 feature
Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World
Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission
Microsoft Sells Linux To Wal-Mart
NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space
New Windows Attack Can Disable Firewall
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking?
Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux
SCO Vs. Groklaw
SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier
Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years
Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008
Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case
Teacher Julie Amero Gets a New Trial
Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos
The Push For Quotas For Women In Science
The Reality Distortion Field Is Real
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup
What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple
Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source
'Eolas' Browser Plug-in Patent Case Rises Again
33 MegaPixel TV in 2015
40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days
AC = Domestic Terrorists?
Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications Online
Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages
Apple to Charge for Boot Camp?
Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up
Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads
Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack
Bone-Headed IT Mistakes
Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave
Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems
Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as 'Porn Portal'
Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis
Command Line Life Partner Wanted
Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break
Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers
DS Games for Pre-readers?
Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business
Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters?
Drinkable Languages Offered At LA Time-Travel Mart
Exploding Cell Phone Battery Kills
FBI Remotely Installs Spyware to Trace Bomb Threat
Females Outnumber Males Online
Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East
Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux
Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board
Google Scoops Microsoft w/ Mesh Applications
Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
I Will Derive
Is the Microsoft/Novell Deal a Litigation Bomb?
Joystick Port Patented, Now the Lawsuit
Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM
Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot
McAfee Picks the Most Dangerous TLDs
Michigan Man Charged for Using Free WiFi
Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC
Microsoft Tops Corporate-Reputation Survey
Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd?
NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet
NASA Will Man Destruct Switch Just In Case
Novell May be Banned from Distributing Linux
OS X Vs. Vista — In Spandex
Open WAP = Probable Cause?
Outer Space has a Smell
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes
RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs
Smarter Teens Have Less Sex
Sony BMG Says Ripping CDs is Stealing
Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker
Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft
Tech Writers Spreading FUD About GPLv3
Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons'
The Linux Identity Crisis
The Top Ten Off Switches
Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents
Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
U2 Bringing Spider-man to Broadway
United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality'
Visual Basic on GNU/Linux
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
Alternative Uses and Interesting Mods for a PS1?
Is Cash No Longer Legal Tender?
University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail?
What Breakfast Gets You Going?
BitTorrent Closes Source Code
Teachers Fake Gunman Attack
Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism?
Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You!
Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source
Yahoo Sued for Spurning Microsoft
"Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw
A New Kind of Science Collaboration
A Quasi-Quasicrystal
A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip?
AMD NDA Scandal
AOL In Talks With Microsoft to Merge Online Divisions, Says WSJ
AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support
AT&T Crippling BlackBerry for iPhone?
Acer Ferrari 1100, One Large Disappointment
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
Another Web-Based Game Targeting Casual Gamers Launches
Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets