Obama pushes plan for fast Internet in US schools
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Touting the need to give every child the tools for success, President Barack Obama on Thursday toured a North Carolina school where every student has a laptop and called for 99...
View Article2 suspected in Danish police data hacking
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish founder of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is suspected along with a Dane of hacking into a company handling sensitive information for the Danish police,...
View ArticleBill to legalize web poker introduced in Congress
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables could soon get a boost from Washington.Republican New York Congressman Peter King proposed federal regulations Thursday that would...
View ArticleFormer dot.com star wants entrepreneurial Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Takafumi Horie, the Japanese dot.com celebrity imprisoned for nearly two years on securities fraud charges, is cooking up dozens of ventures and demanding the nation reduce regulation to...
View ArticleTaiwan charges 2 in failed train, office bombings
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two men have been charged with planting cyanide-tainted bombs on a Taiwan high-speed train and at an office where the head of global electronics powerhouse Foxconn was scheduled...
View ArticleIs Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother?'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and...
View ArticleTiVo settles with Cisco, Motorola and Time Warner
NEW YORK (AP) — TiVo settled patent disputes with Cisco, Motorola Mobility and Time Warner Cable, averting a trial that was to begin next week and bringing to a close a string of long-running legal...
View ArticleMicrosoft says used games will work on Xbox One
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One gaming console will be able to play used games, clearing up a worry among gamers and video game retailers such as GameStop, which trade in used games.That...
View ArticlePaper: UK government getting US spy agency's data
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has been secretly gathering communications data from American Internet giants with the help of fellow spooks at the U.S. National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper reported...
View ArticleGlobal netizens worried over US spying
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — News that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: Where your online data get stored
Internet companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google have vast amounts of data on you.
View ArticleDenials in surveillance program require decoding
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a...
View ArticleNSA revelations force question: What do we want?
NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching.
View ArticleNuclear plant closures show industry's struggles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The decision to close California's San Onofre nuclear plant is the latest setback for an industry that seemed poised for growth not long ago.In Wisconsin, a utility shuttered its...
View Article'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum.But there's no NASA center named for the man whose "giant leap" made him the...
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