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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13, 2009 (AFP) - Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has said.Published: 02/14/2009 at 03:19:35 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Author's Guild has warned that the new audio read-aloud feature of Amazon's latest Kindle electronic book reader could pose a "significant challenge" to the publishing industry.Published: 02/13/2009 at 23:21:16 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Fast-growing micro-blogging service Twitter has reportedly raised an additional 35 million dollars in funding and said Friday that it is ready to "begin building revenue-generating products."Published: 02/13/2009 at 21:11:35 GMT |
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A veteran executive from the world's biggest retail chain starts work Monday at Microsoft with a mission to open stores specializing in the software giant's products.Published: 02/13/2009 at 20:34:27 GMT |
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US videogame veteran Midway Games on Thursday said it has filed for bankruptcy despite strong sales of hot titles such as "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe." Published: 02/13/2009 at 04:11:33 GMT |
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - YouTube said it is dabbling with letting people download videos to computers as an alternative to watching clips streamed over the Internet.Published: 02/13/2009 at 03:13:26 GMT |
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Online retail giant Amazon has yanked from its virtual shelves a Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls.Published: 02/13/2009 at 02:52:51 GMT |
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google said Thursday it is getting out of the broadcast radio advertising business in a move that could result in the Internet powerhouse shedding about 40 workers.Published: 02/12/2009 at 23:00:56 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Eleven percent of Internet-connected US adults updated their status online using Twitter or another social network in December, nearly twice as many as in May, a survey released on Thursday said.Published: 02/12/2009 at 22:28:31 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Online retail spending fell three percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with a year ago, the first quarter of negative growth since 2001, digital research firm comScore reported Thursday.Published: 02/12/2009 at 21:21:07 GMT |
