No, the big stimulus plan won't "save or create 3.5 million jobs," as the president and congressional Democrats claim — at least not this year.
Ever need a college loan? You've probably pored through the notorious eight-page FAFSA application. A likely home buyer? Try the five-page Uniform Residential Loan Application.
The outlook for the majority of the U.S. information technology sector is negative for 2009, Fitch Ratings said Wednesday.
Going into a tough final month that will determine whether the preseason NFC favorite Dallas Cowboys even make the playoffs, coach Wade Phillips unveiled a new strategy Wednesday: rest.
No matter how people remember President Bush's time in office, let there be no doubt about how he wants to end it: gracefully.
What's your vote worth? Because Barack Obama and John McCain can spend about $8 to get it.
The New Deal it is not. The government's biggest economic bailout since the Great Depression is aimed not at relieving unemployment or reforming questionable business practices, but at resuscitating financial markets debilitated by lousy bets on the housing market.
Long before her windows started humming and the lanky pine trees began swaying, new mother Claudia Macias had second thoughts about her family's decision to ride out Hurricane Ike in their home on the far east side of Houston.
Republican National Convention script, Day One: Take your seats, 2:39 p.m. Call to order, 2:45 p.m. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance, 2:49 p.m. Singing of the national anthem by Miss Minnesota 2008, 2:52 p.m.
Seven years ago, Americans learned to fear anthrax as a white powder in the mail that claimed lives, forced the post office to change the way it handles letters and sparked contamination scares across the country.
How the housing bill signed into law Wednesday by President Bush affects homeowners:
Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths. The National Museum of Natural History opens a new exhibit on Saturday — "Dig It" — exploring the mysterious and complex world of soil.
The patient talked a mile a minute, hopped off the exam table, paced around and poked through the cupboards when the medical students entered the exam room.
Is the Internet boom back? No, but information technology companies have again overtaken the financial industry as the largest sector in the S&P; 500 index, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.
A South Carolina grandmother has become a sensation among stressed-out U.S. military men and women around the globe by sending the most incongruous of gifts: pliable, google-eye dolls.
Homeowners staggering under mounting mortgage debt and facing foreclosure could get cheaper, government-backed loans under Democrats' housing rescue plan.
Every day Larry Slattery goes to work, the Environmental Protection Agency asks him to do the impossible.
Here are some of the items the Democratic presidential candidates have purchased during their campaign:
Things didn't work out as planned for a St. Paul woman who wanted to sell nearly all her possessions on eBay.
Steve Bauer had had enough after two nights of someone breaking into his business and stealing antiques. So he armed himself with a cola bottle and a .44-caliber Magnum and spent the night at work. Soon, Bauer had his man. And a woman.
If the revamped Iraq war plan fails, it will be time to withdraw most U.S. troops. Or send more in. The United States is seen as having a limited number of options, all grim, if President Bush's "new way forward" hits a wall. The pressure for U.S. disengagement will be immense. Yet a further escalation, however unimaginable now, may not be out of the question.
The staff at his neighborhood hardware store can spot John Carter from a distance.
Shalin Mody's computer held innumerable things he'd love to have forever: TV shows, video games, papers and more than 50 gigabytes of music. So normally he would have panicked the day the PC completely failed, unable to start up.
The surprising discovery of bones heralded as a new, hobbit-like human species may turn out to have simply been the remains of a human suffering from a genetic illness that causes the body and brain to shrink, according to researchers challenging the original report.
Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and widely recognized as one of the "Fathers of the Internet" last week said that the issues facing the Internet today are as complex as they were pre-Internet.
This post and poll is actually a spin-off of another thread. A discussion formed about the value of certifications, so I offer that point up now to everyone to discuss. I have also created a poll.
Last week Meebo and Facebook teamed to launch the first integration of Facebook Connect Chat, allowing Meebo users to chat with their Facebook friends from the popular web-based IM service.
Here I thought it was impressive that I won a regional science fair at the age of 12. But now comes the story of M.Lavinashree, a girl from the Tamil Nadu state in India, who has passed the Microsoft Certified Professional exam at the age of 9.
The growth of Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Gmail service is accelerating and, if current trends continue, it could surpass Windows Live Hotmail by the end of this year.Between December 2007 and December 2008, Gmail's number of unique monthly visitors in the United States grew 43%, from …
Information technology security remains a significant deficiency at U.S. Customs and Border Protection but is no longer a material weakness, according to an independent audit released today by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.
---Photos on link page.--- Excerpt: Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived".
How to Make a Small Room Appear Much Larger Than It Really Is By Tamyez, January 31, 2009 How to Make a Small Room Appear Much Larger Than It Really Is
A fired computer engineer for Fannie Mae has been arrested and charged with planting a malicious software script designed to permanently destroy millions of dollars worth of data from all 4,000 servers operated by the mortgage giant.
A former Fannie Mae IT contractor has been indicted on charges of planting a virus that would have nuked the mortgage agency's computers, caused millions of dollars in damages, and even shut down operations.
The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications.
She had me at hello ... or just about. Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had found my full name, address, Social Security number and a digital image of my signature on the Web.
Google is rumoured to be delving underwater with a new upgrade to its Google Earth software.Having already conquered the land and the sky, Google is preparing to add maps of the sea beds to the Earth package.
Microsoft has just pushed live its Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 8, the latest update to the world's most widely used web browser. You can download it here.
Price Waterhouse Cooper and Carnegie-Mellon's CyLab have recent surveys that show the senior executive class to be, basically, clueless regarding IT risk and its tie to overall enterprise (business) risk.
Jeez, they really need to get with the program.
The first graduates of an IT study programme for students with autism have been hatched. Four out of five already have a job.
The following is an article that appeared in the December 1983 issue of Byte magazine. When I first created this site there was very little information about early versions of Windows on the web and no references to this article.
During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment.
For many years of my life I work so hard to help my brothers and I thought that I finally got the answer to my prayer My little brother Lesly Jacques has become a pastor. I said when I received the news that god has bless the family for finally the problems will one day ends.
An eight-year-old boy has become the world's youngest IT professional after passing an exam with Microsoft.
Yeah, the numbers dipping (so far slightly) but actually the news isn't terrible so far. Big company staffers seem to be feeling the pain a bit more than small and mid-sized.