Want to know where federal stimulus dollars are being spent in your state, your county, your town or on your street? Recovery.gov, the government's official Web site for tracking federal stimulus spending, relaunched today with a trove of new data...

On July 7th, Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org announced in a tweet that Apple had bought the company that produced the Maps API that his company used in their software. Pushpin is the name of the software API that Openplaces uses and it is...

I had a rare chance to hear the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat, this weekend explain how the service's algorithm picks the topics and stories on its home page. While he didn't give away all his secrets, the Google principal scientist did...

When I was a kid, I used to make crude little animated cartoons in my notebooks using the flipbook technique. Walt Disney had nothing to worry about. I was awful even by the 3rd grade standards of White Pine elementary.

Seriously. In an ITWire tale, Paul Harapin, VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux.

Google employees are running around with test phone handsets, made by HTC, the 'Nexus One'. Predictably, this has sparked off another wave of speculation about Google launching a gPhone in its own right. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers utter a Passion-ate...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is in hot water for daring to suggest that Internet privacy is an illusion. Mozilla bigwig Asa Dotzler suggests Bing is better. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try tyranny. (GOOG) read more

Another day, another iTablet rumor. The anticipated Apple tablet computer is taking shape (at least in the imaginations of some financial analysts). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder a 2010 release date. Not to mention Pigeon: Impossible... ...

A joint venture of five publishing behemoths says it's going to be the go-to guys for digital magazines. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder how it's going to work (or even if it'll work). Not to mention I'm a Mac, and... read more

Federal Judge Nancy Gertner has signed off on a jury's damages award of $675,000 for illegal file sharing. In her commentary, she excoriates Joel's defense for its behavior during the trial. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look on with horror. Not to mention...