US Patent Office rejects remaining NTP vs RIM patent

The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected another patent owned by Research in Motion sparring partner NTP, effectively rendering...

RIMs latest loss in patent war

A U.S. court tightened the noose on Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday, leaving it all but certain that the company...

SETI@home to switch to Berkeley Open Infrastructure

SETI@home has completed its transition to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). BOINC, developed at U.C. Berkeley, is a...

Evolution is a Fact and a Theory

Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in...

Intel Delivers New Era for Virtualization

Delivering the industry’s first hardware virtualization support for desktop PCs, Intel Corporation debuted new processors today that offer businesses improved...

Can you trust Wikipedia?

Reading the entry on “encyclopedia” leaves one with the impression that it was written by someone who had no previous...

Pluto Has Three Moons, Hubble Images Show

Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet...

The Incredibly Shrinking Backup Window

Data Domain of Palo Alto, CA, is one of a new breed of storage startups that are aggressively campaigning against...

Is There Oxygen on the Moon?

TIME.com: Is There Oxygen on the Moon? — Page 1 Never mind the moon’s utter lack of atmosphere, there’s plenty...

Central Tenets of Evolution Theory

When scientists announced last month they had determined the exact order of all 3 billion bits of genetic code that go into making a chimpanzee, it was no surprise that the sequence was more than 96 percent identical to the human genome. Charles Darwin had deduced more than a century ago that chimps were among humans' closest cousins. evolution_clock.gif