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Endeavour Lifts Off to Fit ISS With Giant Observation Deck [Digg]
IBM Taps Green Power With New Chips, Servers [Digg]
Trend Micro Rejiggers Small-Biz SaaS Security [Digg]
How Microsoft Could Beat Apple and Google: Needed - One Chil [Digg]
Open Symbian: New World Order or Big Yawn? [Digg]
Tune-Up App Lets You Get More Intimate With Your Mac [Digg]
Facebook's Virtual World War II Memorials [Digg]
The Critically Complex World of Cars' Sparky Bits [Digg]
How Cozy Are Google and the NSA? [Digg]
The E-Book Empire Strikes [Digg]
Don't Stomp on the Bookworms, E-Publishers [Digg]
Eyeing Android, Symbian Opens Up [Digg]
Caught in cyclonic weather, Anita Nair [Digg]
'Writers, get out of your comfort zone' [Digg]

Endeavour Lifts Off to Fit ISS With Giant Observation Deck [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:32 PM PST

Following a day's delay due to cloudy weather, space shuttle Endeavour launched successfully early Monday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle, which launched at 4:14 a.m. EST, is carrying a new module and an attached cupola for the International Space Station. "What a beautiful launch we had this morning.

IBM Taps Green Power With New Chips, Servers [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:28 PM PST

IBM on Monday launched a one-two punch with its new Power7 processors, which the company claims have twice the performance of the Power6 line but consume less power. These processors power IBM's Unix servers, four new models of which were also unveiled Monday in a move that might strengthen IBM's position in the Unix server market.

Trend Micro Rejiggers Small-Biz SaaS Security [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:26 PM PST

Trend Micro on Monday announced a new and completely overhauled version of its Software as a Service for small and medium-sized businesses. The new version, named "Worry-Free Business Security Services," replaces "Worry-Free Business Security Hosted,

How Microsoft Could Beat Apple and Google: Needed - One Chil [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:24 PM PST

The iPad has captured much of the technology coverage so far this year. It is a poorly named copy of a product that Microsoft launched nearly a decade ago, based on a concept Steve Jobs personally thought was stupid: the tablet computer.

Open Symbian: New World Order or Big Yawn? [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:22 PM PST

It's not every day that a major operating system gets opened up, never mind one that leads the global market in its category. So, when the news came out last week that that's just what the Symbian Foundation had done -- and four months ahead of schedule, no less!

Tune-Up App Lets You Get More Intimate With Your Mac [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:21 PM PST

It's been both a boon and bane for the Mac that it has some characteristics of an appliance. For some users, "it just works" is what makes Apple computers so much more attractive than their competitors. Others, though, just feel incomplete unless they can get under the hood of their byte box.

Facebook's Virtual World War II Memorials [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:18 PM PST

Henio Zytomirski's Facebook profile picture stands out from most. The grinning 6-year-old is captured in black and white and poses in an old-fashioned buttoned-up shirt and shorts. The photograph, shot in 1939, is probably the last taken of him before he was murdered in the Holocaust.

The Critically Complex World of Cars' Sparky Bits [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:16 PM PST

Your most expensive piece of electronics probably is not your flat panel TV or your computer. More likely, it's your car, which can pack 50 microprocessors to control everything from the fuel mix to the rearview mirrors.

How Cozy Are Google and the NSA? [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:14 PM PST

Google has allegedly requested help from the National Security Agency in tracking down hackers who attacked its infrastructure. The development has raised concerns among privacy advocates.

The E-Book Empire Strikes [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:13 PM PST

Apple held most of the music industry virtually at knifepoint for years, and that wasn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if you were a consumer who wanted a legal way to get popular music at a fairly reasonable price. It was only about a year ago that iTunes let go of its dollar-store policy and allowed for a little leeway in its pricing.

Don't Stomp on the Bookworms, E-Publishers [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:11 PM PST

Apple's new iPad is apparently going to let me download The DaVinci Code -- either in book or movie form. I like that. If you're going to release a new device and charge me a lot of money for it -- not to mention the costs of using a network of some kind to facilitate all that downloading and streaming -- then please don't get between me and my ins

Eyeing Android, Symbian Opens Up [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:10 PM PST

When the Symbian Foundation announced the opening up of its namesake smartphone platform on Thursday, it caused a major shift not just in the mobile landscape but also in the FOSS world.

Caught in cyclonic weather, Anita Nair [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:00 PM PST

Anita Nair wanted to write a light, frothy book but her new novel Lessons in Forgetting has turned out to be one of her most intense.

'Writers, get out of your comfort zone' [Digg]

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 09:48 PM PST

It's vital to be open to different experiences to become a good scriptwriter, Abhijat Joshi, who co-wrote Lage Raho Munnabhai and Three Idiots.