Category: Technology

Will Facebook Become the Next Google?

Facebook is the second largest social network on the web, second behind only MySpace in terms of site traffic. It began primarily focused on high school and college students, Facebook has been fast gaining market...

Ultra Pricey DNA Code Mapping

Ever find yourself gift-hunting for a truly self-obsessed friend? If you’ve got a lot of money, then consider buying thim or her a reading of their entire DNA code–for a staggering $350,000! A biotech...

Got To Have Gadgets

Whether it’s Christmas or any time during the year, we all want to own the coolest hi-tech gadgets available. You can start with the $8,000 Electrobike Pi– a Ferarri-red, stylish, electric bicycle.  It’s weighs less...

Wi-Fi Goes Beyond Just Computers

The explosion of Wi-Fi to connect laptop computers to the Internet is amazing.  But now a new trend is evolving just as quickly.  Wi-Fi, the short-range high-speed technology , can now connect to cell...

Can’t Sleep? Turn Off Your Cellphone!

Can’t Sleep? Turn Off Your Cellphone!

A good night’s sleep is becoming ever more elusive for the average American — and it’s a problem that plagues us at all ages, from infancy to adulthood. Two studies illuminate the reasons why...

Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle

Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle

NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of...

Microsoft Conquers China

Microsoft Conquers China

Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment...

The Black Sites: C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program

The Black Sites: C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program

In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales’s role in the controversial dismissal...

Gates Not Going Anywhere Soon

Gates Not Going Anywhere Soon

Microsoft Corp. is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as...

Gamers in a Fix Over Xbox Repair Process

Gamers in a Fix Over Xbox Repair Process

Microsoft’s announcement that it will spend $1 billion to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a step that would assuage disenchanted customers. Nearly a month later, however, some console owners are still less than...