• Second Life's virtual money can become real-life cash (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Dana Moore sells rain. He sells a lot of it, for about a buck per reusable storm.
  
  
  
• Cable firms seek FCC help in fee disputes (Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Several major cable companies and a public interest group asked the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to intervene in disputes over transmission fees to prevent broadcasters from withholding signals from subscribers.
  
  
  
• Iran blocking foreign, domestic Web sites to curb anti-government activists (Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  TEHRAN -- The bearded blogger stood before an effigy of an Islamic warrior towering over the letters "WWW."
  
  
  
• Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.
  
  
  
  
• Fairfax County crime report (Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.
  
  
  
• Alexandria and Arlington crime report (Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  These were among incidents reported recently by the Alexandria Police Department. For more information, call 703-838-4636 or visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/police .
  
  
  
• Security gaps exploited in grade scandal remain, may be difficult to close (Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Montgomery County school officials have not yet closed gaps in their computer system that allowed students at a high-performing Potomac high school to change dozens of grades using a device that can be bought from Amazon.com for $69. And other school systems, including Fairfax County, remain just...
  
  
  
• Video Vault, cult movie rental favorite, to close in April (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Another video rental store might have been content to boast a "Horror" section, but Alexandria's Video Vault always catered to far more specialized tastes.
  
  
  
  
• Billionaire Bubble: Ten players in the local tech scene look back, a decade later, at the frenzied days of the Internet boom and its fateful bust (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Ten players from the local technology scene look back at the Internet boom and bust.
  
  
  
• Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:30:31 EST)
  Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week. This inaugurates what all TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.
  
  
  
• At Play: Kickstarter is a Web site for the starving artist (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Baltimore-based director Matt Porterfield was overjoyed to find out that his latest film was accepted by the Berlin Film Festival. But there was one not-so-trivial problem: He didn't have any money to finish the editing and sound work.
  
  
  
• Help File: Don't press F1 on the Web in Windows XP; a shortcut to iTunes Plus upgrades (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Q: I heard what sounds like an urban legend -- that you shouldn't hit the F1 key if a Web site tells you to. Is that true?
  
  
  
  
• Toyota demo counters claim of electronic acceleration glitch (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Embattled Japanese auto giant Toyota launched a broad counter-attack on Monday aimed at refuting research that suggests electronics may be at the heart of runaway acceleration problems that have led the automaker to recall more than 6 million vehicles.
  
  
  
• Featured Advertiser (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  
  
• Disney allows Cablevision to resume showing WABC-7 as revenue negotiations continue (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  ABC returned to the televisions of Cablevision's 3 million New York area subscribers late Sunday, allowing viewers to catch most of the Academy Awards. But the companies didn't say whether they had ended their tense and bitter impasse over how much the cable operator should pay Walt Disney Co., t...
  
  
  
• Intuit could use some quick(en) fixes for its new Mac program (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers' oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken personal-finance program that didn't look and run like a 1998-vintage relic.
  
  
  
• For scientists, Chile becomes the ideal lab for studying seismic activity (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  TALCA, CHILE -- When an aftershock nearly as big as Haiti's earthquake jolted this city on Friday, those already reeling from last month's huge quake shuddered in fear. But Jeff Genrich, a 53-year-old earthquake scientist from California, lolled in bed.
  
  
  
  
• ABC goes dark for New York Cablevision subscribers (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:41:00 EST)
  Cablevision and Walt Disney appear to be heading back to the negotiating table, hours before the Academy Awards broadcast begins and is missed by three million subscribers in the New York area.
  
  
  
• FBI director warns of 'rapidly expanding' cyberterrorism threat (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:10:05 EST)
  SAN FRANCISCO -- FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned Thursday that the cyberterrorism threat is "real and . . . rapidly expanding."
  
  
  
• Orbital Sciences to buy General Dynamics' satellite unit (Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.
  
  
  
• Va. broadband provider RCN accepts Boston equity firm's acquisition offer (Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Herndon-based RCN announced Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a private-equity investment firm in a transaction valued at $1.2 billion.
  
  
  
  
• John Ahearn Jr.; Larry Weekley; Viola A. Myers (Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  John L. "Jack" Ahearn Jr., 85, a retired Naval Research Laboratory electrical engineer, died Feb. 25 at his home in Oxon Hill after an apparent heart attack.
  
  
  
• Local broadband provider RCN to be bought by private firm (Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:25:59 EST)
  Herndon-based RCN announced Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a private equity investment firm.
  
  
  
• Featured Advertiser (Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:25:59 EST)
  
  
• FCC Chairman Genachowski confident in authority over broadband, despite critics (Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Internet service providers are stepping up their campaign to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating them like telephone companies and questioning the limits of the agency's power over the Internet.
  
  
  
• La Plata's plans for free wireless Internet move forward (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  La Plata and Charles County Public Library officials are expected to sign an agreement soon to put on the fast track plans to make free wireless Internet service available in many locations.
  
  
  
  
• MeriTalk tech conference brings public and private sectors together (Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Government geeks and private-sector geeks will get a chance to rub elbows at a brand-new technology conference taking place Thursday.
  
  
  
• Misdials help 'crammers' ring up millions in phone bill scam (Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Roy and John Lin made a devilish fortune in the details of phone bills, according to a federal investigation.
  
  
  
• Personal Tech Live (Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST)
  Rob Pegoraro answers your questions on recent gadget reviews, technology news and provides personal tech buying and fixing advice.
  
  
  
• Apple sues HTC over phones with Google software (Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:12:28 EST)
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, which makes touchscreen smartphones using Google software, accusing it of infringing 20 hardware and software patents related to the iPhone.
  
  
  
  
• Business digest: Apple sues HTC over iPhone patents (Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Apple, increasingly facing tougher competition in the market for smartphones, sued the Taiwanese phonemaker HTC, accusing it of violating patents related to the iPhone.
  
  
  
• Mike McConnell on how to win the cyber-war we're losing (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  How can we win the cyber-war?
  
  
  
• Featured Advertiser (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  
  
• GPS capability gives Foursquare social-networking service an edge (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender -- and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled "Check-in here." Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using -- make that, playing -- a social-networking service called Foursquare.
  
  
  
• With Google Buzz, your closest circle of friends is wide open (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Google Buzz is the loudest party I've ever been forced to attend. It's not because there are too many people invited but because of all the chatter. I'm following only 40 others. And even if I wanted to follow a few hundred more, my network's too small. But these 40 contacts all have their own fr...
  
  
  
  
• Sensing devices are becoming more adept at detecting toxins and pollutants (Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Local boozers were breathing a bit easier yesterday following news reports that an audit by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department found some 80 percent of its "breathalyzer" alcohol monitors may have been giving faulty readings.
  
  
  
• Communications exec finds Googling himself a blow to the ego (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Ed Nanas is a retired communications executive of a well-known Fortune 500 company that never knew about the brassiere article when it hired him because there was no Google back then.
  
  
  
• Apple pulls sexually explicit apps from iTunes (Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST)
  Apple purged several sexually explicit applications from iTunes this week. Parents had complained that children were getting hold of apps such as Naughty Trivia and Sexy Scratch Off in the freewheeling online marketplace.
  
  
  

• SpaceX aborts rocket engine test (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:06:30 -0500)
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station.
  
  
  
• Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:59:15 -0500)
  GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday.
  
  
  
• Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April (Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:50:26 -0500)
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, the White House said on Sunday.
  
  
  
• Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:52 -0500)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday.
  
  
  
• Scientists find why "sunshine" vitamin D is crucial (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:50:16 -0500)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are poor at fighting infection, scientists said on Sunday.
  
  
  
• It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:23 -0500)
  LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
  
  
  
• Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:18:25 -0500)
  SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.
  
  
  
• Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:26:34 -0500)
  OSLO (Reuters) - Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.
  
  
  
• Virgin Galactic sees space test flights in 2011 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:07:08 -0500)
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch test flights into space in 2011, but does not need additional financing after selling a stake to Abu Dhabi's Abaar last year, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Russia halts space tours as U.S. retires Shuttle (Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:18:19 -0500)
  STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after the U.S. mothballs its shuttle fleet this year.
  
  
  

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