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Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block	3/9/2010 4:10 PM
It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You	3/9/2010 3:40 PM
Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices	3/9/2010 2:34 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties	3/9/2010 2:15 PM
Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public	3/9/2010 1:00 PM
Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants	3/9/2010 12:30 PM
Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000	3/9/2010 10:10 AM
For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle	3/9/2010 9:25 AM
Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged	3/9/2010 7:00 AM
Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two	3/8/2010 11:00 PM
Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.