• Crash of Va. computer network has implications for tech world, state politics (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  RICHMOND -- The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country.
  
  
  Politics - United States - Transportation - Aviation - Accidents
  
• Apple event streaming live (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:25:14 EDT)
  Apple made the unusual move this week of saying it would post a live video stream of its 1 p.m. media event. Usually you have to be in the audience with Steve Jobs to hear the announcements live.
  
  
  Apple - Macintosh - Streaming media - Apple II - Companies
  
• Cyber-bullying defies traditional school bully stereotype (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The advent of social networking sites and text messaging has allowed young girls the opportunity to take on a role traditionally reserved for boys, experts say.
  
  
  Bully - Youth - Violence and Abuse - Workplace Discrimination - Work
  
• Fairfax County crime report (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.
  
  
  
  United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County
  
• No timetable set for return of Va. DMV licensing service (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A computer outage that has wreaked havoc on Virginia state agencies entered its seventh day Wednesday, and officials acknowledged that the failure was more complicated than they originally thought.
  
  
  United States - Business - Government - Season - Training camp
  
• Judge rejects Ken Cuccinelli's probe of U-Va. global warming records (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  RICHMOND -- A Virginia judge on Monday dismissed a civil subpoena issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II to the University of Virginia that had sought documents related to the work of a global warming scientist and former university professor.
  
  
  Ken Cuccinelli - Climate change - Environment - Opposing Views - University of Virginia
  
• Virginia DMV licensing services will be stalled until at least Wednesday (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  An unprecedented statewide computer outage that has kept the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing new or replacement driver's licenses will continue through Tuesday, prompting Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to call for a probe into the failure and law enforcement agencies to issue blanket...
  
  
  Virginia - United States - Law - Business and Economy - Government
  
• Why the FCC can't do its job on broadband access (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The Aug. 26 editorial " An open, innovative Internet " wrongly stated that a court decided the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over Internet service providers. What the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said was that the section (Title I) of the communications statute cited by agency...
  
  
  
  Federal Communications Commission - FCC - Telecommunication - Computers and Internet - Business and Economy
  
• Obama to loosen rules on technology exports (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:00 EDT)
  
  
  
  Barack Obama - United States - President - Government - Elections
  
• Troves of lithium, valuable for batteries, boost mood in Bolivia and Afghanistan (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In June, the Department of Defense announced that the mineral wealth of Afghanistan -- including iron, copper, gold and lithium -- might be worth more than $900 billion. Despite the historic importance of the first three, lithium seemed to be the material that most excited Pentagon officials, who...
  
  
  Bolivia - Afghanistan - South America - Lithium - Batteries
  
• SCIENCE SCAN (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  
  
  
  Educational Resources - Magazines and E-zines - Technology - Magnetic resonance imaging - Facial recognition system
  
• Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health' (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images.
  
  
  
  Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems
  
• Featured Advertiser (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  
  
• Faster Forward: Verizon ups DSL speeds to 10 to 15 Mbps (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:52:03 EDT)
  Broadband users in a hurry now have a faster option from Verizon -- an upgraded version of its digital-subscriber-line service that comes a lot closer to the speed of its Fios access. The company announced this morning that it is selling a faster DSL tier, with download speeds of 10 to 15 millio...
  
  
  Digital Subscriber Line - DSL - Internet service provider - Access Providers - Business
  
• Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:06:00 EDT)
  Top aides to President George W. Bush seemed unconcerned amid multiple warnings as early as 2002 that the White House risked losing millions of e-mails that federal law required them to preserve, according to an extensive review of records set for release Monday.
  
  
  White House - President - United States - Government - Executive Branch
  
• Too much Tweeting from Twitter friends? There's an iPhone app for that -- and some other ways to get anti-social on networks (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:00 EDT)
  The technology that turned people into 24/7 communicators has spawned a tool kit that discreetly lets users be just a tad antisocial on their own networks.
  
  
  Etiquette - Relationships - Arts - Recreation - Travel
  
• Knowland Group became one of the fastest-growing companies by taking photos of signs (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:23:02 EDT)
  One of the best things about writing Value Added is that I discover niche businesses that astonish me.
  
  
  
  Business - Knowland Group - Business and Economy - Recreation - Small business
  
• First tests for stem cell therapy are near (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:14:00 EDT)
  Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly approaching: the world's first attempt to carefully test the cells in people.
  
  
  Stem cell - Biology - Biotechnology - Products and Services - Research Groups and Centers
  
• Pentagon considers preemptive strikes as part of cyber-defense strategy (Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:00:00 EDT)
  The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.
  
  
  Preemptive war - United States - Pentagon - September 11 2001 - Terrorism
  
• Debating Judge Lamberth's stem-cell ruling (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  I am profoundly disappointed in U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's injunction [" Judge blocks stem cell rules ," front page, Aug. 24].
  
  
  Biotechnology - Stem cell - Biology - Science and Technology - Stem Cell Research
  
• Google moving into Facebook territory with eye on social networking games (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: "Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon." That line from Kevin Rose, the tech entrepreneur who founded the content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to fundamentally change.
  
  
  
  Facebook - Google - Social network - Online Communities - Searching
  
• Back-to-school shopping goes mobile (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Back-to-school shopping deals are just a text message away this year as retailers wade into the brave new world of mobile commerce.
  
  
  Business and Economy - Telecommunications - Mobile phone - Mobile - Communications
  
• HP outbids Dell for 3Par with $1.88 billion offer (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:49:01 EDT)
  SEATTLE - Hewlett-Packard boosted its bid for 3Par to $1.88 billion Friday, topping Dell's offer by 11 percent and again raising the stakes in the bidding contest for the data-storage company.
  
  
  Hewlett-Packard - Dell - HP - HP 3000 - Unix
  
• Microsoft co-founder Allen sues Apple, Google, other tech giants over patents (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:15:01 EDT)
  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lobbed a patent violation lawsuit at some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies on Friday, accusing them of using ideas hatched at one of his former businesses.
  
  
  Google - Microsoft - Apple - Facebook - Paul Allen
  
• OK Go on net neutrality: A lesson from the music industry (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  On the Internet, when I send my ones and zeros somewhere, they shouldn't have to wait in line behind the ones and zeros of wealthier people or corporations. That's the way the Net was designed, and it's central to a concept called "net neutrality," which ensures that Internet service providers can't...
  
  
  
  Music - Google - Business - Network neutrality - Arts and Entertainment
  
• Featured Advertiser (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  
  
• Google continues its assault on the price of a phone call (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  What's a phone call worth these days? A Verizon phone booth in a Metro station suggests one answer: 50 cents. Another comes from Verizon's cheapest landline service option, which charges 10.2 cents a call. If you use a cellphone or subscribe to a voice-over-Internet-Protocol calling plan, the num...
  
  
  Google - Search - Search Engines - Companies - Skype
  
• How the FCC can best regulate the Internet (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  FOR MORE THAN a decade, "net neutrality" -- a commitment not to discriminate in the transmission of Internet content -- has been a rule tacitly understood by Internet users and providers alike.
  
  
  Telecommunication - Regulation - Business - Licensing - Federal Communications Commission
  
• A judge blocks federal funding for stem cell research (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  THIS WEEK, a D.C. federal trial judge put a temporary halt to federally funded research on embryonic stem cells, concluding that current law prohibits the use of such money for work in which an embryo is damaged or destroyed. The decision is unnecessarily disruptive, creating uncertainty about the...
  
  
  Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology - Stem Cell Research - Science and Technology
  
• Google adds phone calling to Gmail (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:41:34 EDT)
  Google's Gmail isn't just a mailbox -- it now doubles as a phone. Users of Google's Web e-mail service can now call any phone in the U.S. or Canada for free (and make international calls for almost free) from within their browser.
  
  
  
  Google - GoogleVoice - Searching - Search Engines - Gmail
  
• Fairfax County crime report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.
  
  
  United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County
  
• Anne Arundel County and Howard County crime report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  These were among incidents reported by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. For information, call 410-222-8050.
  
  
  Maryland - United States - Counties - Anne Arundel - Anne Arundel County Maryland
  
• Alexandria and Arlington crime report (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  These were among incidents reported by the Alexandria Police Department. For information, call 703-838-4636 or visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/police .
  
  
  Arlington - United States - Virginia - Counties - Crime
  
• All stem cell funding in jeopardy, NIH says (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:14:00 EDT)
  The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it has suspended funding new human embryonic stem cell research and that all federally funded experiments already underway will be cut off when they come up for renewal if a new court order is not overturned.
  
  
  
  Stem cell - Biotechnology - Biology - Embryonic stem cell - Science and Technology
  
• How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:14:02 EDT)
  Two weeks after BP's Macondo well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government's Minerals Management Service finalized a regulation intended to control the undersea pressures that threaten deepwater drilling operations.
  
  
  Minerals Management Service - Geology - Earth Sciences - Rocks and Minerals - Business
  

• Wheat genome work just at initial stage: scientists (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:17:17 -0400)
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Efforts to sequence the wheat genome are only at an initial stage of what will be a long-term project requiring more government support, leading Chinese and international scientists said on Tuesday.
  
  
  
• Study finds first genetic link to common migraine (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:22:53 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks.
  
  
  
• U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to science (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:05:35 -0400)
  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel should make predictions only when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body.
  
  
  
• Scientists crack through wheat's genetic code (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:14:12 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have cracked and published almost all of the highly complex genetic code of wheat -- a staple food for more than a third of the world's people -- and say breeders can now use their findings to improve yields.
  
  
  
• Space-based detector could find anti-universe (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:48:10 -0400)
  GENEVA (Reuters) - A huge particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year could find evidence for the anti-universe often evoked in science fiction, physicists said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Sponges beat seaweed in battle for Florida reefs (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:20:51 -0400)
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Giant barrel sponges that can live for thousands of years have proliferated in the waters around the Florida Keys, the apparent winner in a recent battle for dominance among corals, seaweed and sponges.
  
  
  
• Colombia's Galeras erupts, evacuation ordered (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:57:20 -0400)
  PASTO, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's Galeras Volcano erupted on Wednesday, forcing authorities to order the evacuation of thousands, but only a few residents trickled from nearby villages to shelters, officials said.
  
  
  
• Archaeologists uncover 3,500-year-old Egypt city (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:32:49 -0400)
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in one of Egypt's desert oases that predates earlier cities by a millennium, the Ministry of Culture said Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Pea sized frog found on Borneo island (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:34:31 -0400)
  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a frog the size of a pea, the smallest found in Asia, Africa or Europe, on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.
  
  
  
• Scientists create liver cells from patients' skin (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:31:06 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have created liver cells in a lab for the first time using reprogrammed cells from human skin, paving the way for the potential development of new treatments for liver diseases that kill thousands each year.
  
  
  

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