A judge began investigating the possible kidnapping and torture of a lawyer who had alleged a cover-up in a long-running inquiry into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires....

Our old 700 MHz iBook G3 passed away quietly on Saturday evening. My wife had used it to check her email that morning, and all had seemed well, but when she tried to wake it for a late-night check just before retiring, it refused to respond. Over the next several hours I tried every method of resusc...

Number ONE on the gangsta hiphop top 10: The East Flatbush Project's "Tried By 12" Spencer Bellamy's forgotten track (it was released in 97 and is more famous in Europe than it is here) has the strange hypnotic power of a poisonous plant or a black rose eating a deadly spider. As for Des's rhyme sty...

"Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names". So says Greg Joswiak, as Apple takes a typically unconventional approach to the problem of having a music player that's too small to have a screen displaying the track name on. The new iPod shuffle,...

Platte, the pay-for-porn access company, has shut its UK operations - but mystery surrounds precisely why The pay-for-porn company Platte Media, formerly MBS (Micro Bill Systems), has stopped operating in the UK - and did so in February, according to an email from the chief executive officer of Plat...

Doom and gloom has got the best of us The recession clearly has worsened in the first quarter Earnings expectations continue to plunge for both 2009 and 2010 Unemployment rate to reach 9.4% Current wealth prospects for the baby boom generation If you want to know what’s going to happen to commerci...

Apple repair and upgrade shop MacService has announced its new 320GB Apple TV Upgrade service. According to the company, the larger capacity drive can hold up to 400 hrs of video, 72,000 songs or 200,000 pictures. To have their Apple TV upgraded, users must send their device out in a MacService-prov...

Dear Charles, Thank you so much for profiling us and taking the time to write to us as well. Thank you also for your hard work in promoting alternative search engines. As for Yauba, I am enclosing a press release that went out just a few hours ago that describes in greater detail some of our Privacy...

The Nanocrowd beta site has launched! We havejust launched the first example of our new technology at work. We collected millions of viewer comments about movies and analyzed them to understand what people think. Based solely on those comments, we rate movies, organize them, and recommend similar on...

Good morning. Following strength in overseas markets, premarket futures are positive as well. While there are no significant headlines to mention, there is some talk about yet another stimulus bill while the Fed considers pumping even more money into the economy by expanding their lending and securi...