Tech and Gadgets Archive

Google empowers users to edit search results

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again.

Review: New BlackBerrys cool but can't beat iPhone

By Rachel Metz AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008.

'Generation Dumbo:' How social networking is making teens dumb

- From Port Folio Weekly With the vast sea of knowledge available on the Internet, logic would have it that current and future generations of the digital age should be the more informed, knowledgeable and better educated than those who have gone before.

Hampton Roads cities recognized for technology efforts

Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Hampton have all been named among the most technologically advanced U.S. cities by the Center for Digital Government, according to its 2008 “Digital Cities Survey.”

Cutting through the digital TV static

Three months from today, the television broadcast system that most Americans watched growing up will sign off forever. Through a handful of measures since 1996, Congress has ordered most broadcast stations to phase out their use of conventional analog transmission and switch their signals to digital technology by the end of Feb 17, 2009.

Beach company finds niche in e-records

By Jill Canada

For Inside Business

Leticia Feliciano began DOMA Technologies – a document imaging and electronic file management company – in 2000 in Virginia Beach after leaving the U.S. Marine Corps.

While a Marine and working for the Judge Advocate Division, she noticed an overabundance of paperwork in the JAG’s legal office.

Gossip web site raises jitters, legal questions

By Susan Kinzie

The Washington Post The Georgetown University students had some questions for gossip Web site founder Matt Ivester. Such as, why can’t you prevent people’s reputations from being smeared on your site? Why don’t you take down the racist comments? Do you know some students are so distraught about the things said about them that they might drop out of school?

Gossip Web site raises jitters, legal questions

By Susan Kinzie The Georgetown University students had some questions for gossip Web site founder Matt Ivester. Such as, why can’t you prevent people’s reputations from being smeared on your site? Why don’t you take down the racist comments? Do you know some students are so distraught about the things said about them that they might drop out of school?

Virginia gamer makes his way to L.A.

By Ryan Murphy 757 teen correspondent World Cyber Games. That sounds like a big deal. And rightly so, given that more than 1.5 million competitors from more than 70 countries duke it out over the course of the year to see who will be crowned world video-gaming champion in eight different games. It's the single largest event in video gaming.

Yahoo-Google deal dissolves; future uncertain

By Joelle Tessler and Michael Liedtke The Associated Press WASHINGTON Google Inc. has scrapped its Internet advertising partnership with struggling rival Yahoo Inc., abandoning attempts to overcome the objections of antitrust regulators and customers who believed the alliance would give Google too much power over online commerce.