No more Encarta

Microsoft says it is shutting down its online encyclopedia, Encarta, in October and will stop selling Encarta Software by June.

Google Inc. Music

Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China on Monday in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business.

Streaming Video Games?

San Francisco- Music and movies can be streamed over the Internet, so why not video games?

A startup founded by technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman says it has developed a technology to deliver video games on demand, an idea that threatens to eventually take consoles out of the equation. OnLive Inc., Perlman's Palo Alto, California based company, planned to unveil its technology Tuesday night at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Seven years in the works, OnLive says it has developed a way to stream video games without any lag that humans can notice. So the instant you press a button to shoot something on the screen, the gun goes off.

AT&T workers strike

In New York union workers at AT&T are giving their leaders the authority to call a strike as part of negotiations for a new contract covering 112,500 employees. Several contracts covering workers at the phone company's landline division expire on April 4. AT&T Inc. is trying to make the employees pay more for their health care, among other concessions. The Communications Workers of America says 88 percent of members covered by the contracts voted in favor of a possible strike.

Video Game Industry still in the game!

The video game industry is holding up, but the gloom of the recession will be on the minds of thousands of people at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a key event for video game insiders looking to learn new skills, showcase innovations and if they're lucky enough, find work.

Cisco Systems Inc. is making servers

In New York Cisco Systems Inc. wants a bigger chunk of the corporate computing market, and plans to start selling servers in competition with old partners like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM corp.

Is your computer infected?

Computer virus's and infections now don't try to crash your computer. Instead they might slow it down a bit and log your keystrokes and steal passwords or credit card numbers from sites you visit. If you continually get pop ups that wont go away or if you are being redirected to weird sites that aren't what you typed in your computer could be infected. For more information visit http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090315/ap_on_hi_te/tec_inside_a_botnet_checklist

Man who threw shoe at President Bush convicted

The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, lawyers said. He defiantly shouted "long live Iraq" when the sentence was read.

Obama Accepts Imperfect Spending Bill

Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion spending package, but insisted it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business." The $410 billion bill includes significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs.

33 people died in a suicide attack on Iraq tribal leaders

A suicide bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders and high-ranking security officials touring a market after a reconciliation meeting west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 33 people in the second major attack in the capital area in two days.

Obama Pro Stem Cell Research

President Obama said he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells. He said "Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident" and he said we will make up for lost ground.

Obama plan success

The Obama administration launched the new program today that helped 9 million borrowers stay in their homes with new lower monthly payments.

Square Root Day!

Today 3/03/09 is square root day which occurs only nine times a century. For all the math fans out there you can have fun calculating how many seconds until the next square root day!

Obama is making Kathleen Sevelius the head of health

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sevelius, the president's choice for health and human services secretary, will face a lot of challanges in her new job, including a health system in disarray and a nation's food supply at risk.