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At Face(book) value, it's worth $6.5B

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:01:25 -0400

NEW YORK - How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion. The investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, said...

Cousins set to launch Candy.com after paying $3M for domain

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:14:18 -0400

A Weymouth company is sweet on becoming the online corner candy store to the world. Candy.com is scheduled to launch July 20 as a destination for everything candy - selling...

Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on Facebook

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:07:18 -0400

NEW YORK - How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to think it's $6.5 billion to $10 billion. The investment group, Digital Sky, said today it...

Microsoft opens early testing on Office 2010

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:34:34 -0400

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at Office 2010, but it's still keeping Web-based versions of Word, Excel...

Young workers push employers for wider Web access

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:25:23 -0400

CHICAGO - Ryan Tracy thought he'd entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world. His employer blocked access to Facebook, Gmail...

Key Web names seen as 'free' advertising

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:08:09 -0400

It's all in a name, and that's also true for the Web. When the founders of Candy.com bought the domain name for $3 million, they knew they had the first-in-mind...

Embedded card info can be stolen

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:38:04 -0400

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this...

'Faction': Out of this world

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:40:17 -0400

If I had a hammer, I'd want to break stuff on Mars. "Red Faction: Guerrilla" makes that possible. Thanks, video games! At its core, "Red Faction:...

Power.com sues Facebook over access to users data

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:59:54 -0400

NEW YORK - A Brazilian company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch. Power.com has sued Facebook, saying the site doesn't follow its own...

Nanotech dreamer shares Inland Empire vision

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:48:48 -0400

Albert Maniaol, director of applied technologies training at the Applied Technology Training Center for the San Bernardino Community College District, is spearheading an effort...

NY AG Cuomo: 'Tagged' network stole identies, raided address books

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:37:36 -0400

NEW YORK - New York's attorney general charged today that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide - by sending e-mails that raided...

Experts disagree on seriousness of attacks on government Web sites

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:00:50 -0400

WASHINGTON - Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated...

EMC buys Data Domain, NetApp drops out of bidding

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:34:34 -0400

A bidding war over data storage company Data Domain is over, with EMC emerging as the victor. Data Domain Inc. said today that it has agreed to be acquired by EMC Corp....

Google's new operating system to take on Microsoft

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:03:33 -0400

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work with its plans to develop a free operating system that will attack Microsoft...

White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:56:13 -0400

WASHINGTON - The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also targeting the White...

Netbooks now being sold like cell phones

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:13:54 -0400

SAN JOSE, Calif. - If you walked into the right RadioShack store last weekend, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have...

Google lifts 'beta' label from Gmail, other programs

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:16:09 -0400

CHICAGO - For what seemed like an eternity in the technology world, Google's Gmail service lurked in beta, keeping devotees guessing as to what bugs remained in the system...

Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:47:08 -0400

WASHINGTON - A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible...