Lost in Space: Astronaut's Toolbag Floats Away During Spacewalk A NASA astronaut accidentally lost her toolbag while conducting a spacewalk

Yang's Departure Could be Perfect Timing For Another Microsoft Bid A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is possible, if Ballmer and company is still interested

Comcast Spreads DOCSIS 3 to Pacific Northwest Washington and Oregon to become even more Comcastic

Amy Taylor, David Pollard Virtual Affair Divorce (Photo) A British woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his online alter-ego was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world of Second Life, media reported on Friday....

Courtney Love says she Washington, Nov 19 : Courtney Love has denied Internet claims that she has been feeling suicidal.

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2008 kick starts New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI/Business Wire India): World's largest internet congregation formed by the United Nations Secretary-General - Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in alliance with Department of Information Technology (DIT), National Internet exchange of India (NIXI) - supported by ISPAI and major corporates like Sify, BSNL, Tata Communications and STPI is set to begin its third meeting from December 3rd - 6th at the Hyderabad International Conference Centre (HICC), Hyderabad.

AT&T looks beyond the iPhone Its exclusive deal to sell the Apple iPhone has been a big boon to AT&T, a laggard in the mobile business. What happens when the deal runs out?

Oz driver pulled with todger in pasta sauce jar Continued to crack one off 'while resisting arrest' An Oz driver has been fined AU$600 for "offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction" after cracking one off into a pasta sauce jar even as coppers attempted to subdue him with batons and capiscum spray following a "slow-speed" car chase through Newcastle, New South Wales....

Firms charge employees for Vista boot-up times Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Wednesday 19 November 2008. 12:30:00 Getting themselves sued TIGHT ARSED employers are refusing to pay employees for the 20 or so minutes it takes for their computers to boot-up or shut down. Apparently it has become an issue since the introduction of Windows Vista where boot up and log out times are a lot longer....

ARC drums up bass from MP3s Tony Dennis the Inquirer , Wednesday 19 November 2008. 10:34:00 Latest addition to Sonic Focus system HEARING IS believing in the case of the latest software addition - Virtual Bass - to ARC's Sonic Focus digital audio technologies. It makes listening to MP3s enjoyable again. Essentially ARC has been quietly integrating the technology it gained when it acquired Sonic Focus back in February 2008....

London hospitals catch virus Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Wednesday 19 November 2008. 07:34:00 Is there a doctor in the house? THREE LONDON hospitals had their networks shut down by IT managers after they were infected with an unidentified computer virus. Managers at St Bartholomew's and the London NHS trust called a state of emergency when the system became heavily overloaded....

Minority Report interface developed Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Wednesday 19 November 2008. 07:34:00 Precognition BOFFINS BEHIND the Minority Report flick have come up with a real life interface which mimics that used in the movie. Dubbed G-Speak, its inventors - who advised Steven Spielberg during the movie - claim it is the first major improvement in the computer interface since 1984....

WoW causes Swedish kid to collapse Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Wednesday 19 November 2008. 07:34:00 Bad case of Wrath of the Lich King A SWEDISH schoolkid's brain went bork, bork, bork after playing the new expansion to the World of Warcraft online computer game. The 15-year-old boy and his friends were exploring the new Wrath of the Lich King content when he suffered what appeared to be a grand mal seizure....

T-Mobile kicked for 'more minutes' ad But TV challenge accepted The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against T-Mobile's claim that "You wont find more minutes for £30", but accepts that the TV challenge "See if you can find more minutes for £30" is OK....

Google tells the world how to talk Received Pronunciation not received, Scots scotched Google's voice search is, it turns out, optimised for North American accents and has distinct problems understanding proper English as the BBC defines it - forcing English users to adopt the kind of dodgy accents not usually seen outside a karaoke night....

Lame Mac Trojan limps into view Malware targets grumble-flick fans Security researchers have uncovered a rare example of a Trojan that affects Mac PCs....

Nikon Coolpix S710 compact camera Ridiculously easy to use Review The Coolpix S710 was one of four new compacts released by Nikon this autumn. It's the top-of-the-range model, so the person likely to buy this camera is someone looking for more than a basic compact but less than an entry-level DSLR. Will they be delighted or disappointed?...

Spacewalking astronaut drops toolbag 'Steve, can you lend me a grease gun?' Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper yesterday dropped her toolbag as she and Steve Bowen worked outside the International Space Station, in the process consigning to oblivion "two grease guns, scrapers, several wipes and tethers and some tool caddies"....

Transmeta takeover threatened by lawyers Attorneys corral shareholders for class action suit Novafora's takeover of Transmeta could be threatened by a class action lawsuit from disgruntled shareholders....

Follow the Somali pirate scourge via Google mashup Indian navy sends buccaneer mothership to Davy Jones The world's media continues to follow the long-running piracy problems in the Gulf of Aden, with interest stimulated by last week's fatal shootings by Royal Marines off the Yemeni coast and the reported sinking of a buccaneer "mothership" by the Indian Navy yesterday evening. Meanwhile, other seaborne raiders in the region successfully hijacked five merchantmen including a 300,000-ton supertanker loaded with crude oil....

Layoffs Mean Companies Must Pay Close Attention to Identity Management In our current economic condition, companies are faced with the prospect of retiring massive amounts of user accounts as employees are let go. Managing that process effectively can be the difference between a data breach and peace of mind. - More than 50,000 layoffs at Citigroup; plans for as many as 6,000 at Sun Microsystems. With the current state of the economy, many companies are going to be faced with the prospect of managing the retirement of numerous accounts. While it sounds simple enough, a study by eMediaUSA released earli...

Sony's digital gamble Ty Roberts, CTO OF Gracenote, recently took his 8-year-old son to a Jonas Brothers concert. A sea of screaming teens used their cell phones to take pictures and record videos of the hit Disney Channel band.

Husband blames iPhone for "raunchy picture" found on phone Husband claimed he'd been a victim of an iPhone glitch The iPhone does many things well. But this probably isn't one of them.

Video: Adobe Flash 10 Running on G1 iPhone watch out!

Secure Your Smartphone with F-Secure Comes with advanced anti-theft feature

Fashion your Firefox! Social Butterfles, Shutterbugs, and Rock Stars, dress up your Firefox with your favorite add-ons

A Decade-Plus of a Web Gone Worldwide Perhaps the greatest invention of the 20th century is the hardware and software infrastructure that makes up the data communications system known as the Internet. It's led to revolutions in the way people and businesses communicate, advertise and sell. Although the technology underpinnings had been in development and use for decades, it wasn't until the mid-1990s that the Web began to infiltrate people's daily lives.

Parallels 4.0 Not Quite Fully Baked After Apple began selling Macintosh systems based on Intel processors, a program called "Parallels Desktop" was released that let you run Windows in a window on a Mac. It instantly became the de facto standard for breaking down walls between operating systems on the Mac OS. Parallels uses a technique called "virtualization," which creates a virtual computer running within the physical, real computer.

What's lurking in your data centre? Legacy IT - a burden or tech age-ism? It's a shame, isn't it. The term 'legacy' could mean such good things, but in IT we use it in the same condemning way we might refer to burnt out old warehouses, or rusting farm equipment. No system worth its salt wants to be considered as part of the legacy environment, and indeed, it's a CV decision as to whether people want to work with them, in development or support roles....

Premium-rate industry pushes into class Hay kids, let's do the show on a mobile phone! Budding entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to develop premium-rate content by the industry regulator, with free lesson plans and downloads from the Ministry of Sound to make ringtone creation part of the UK curriculum....

IBM gets into server transit business Goes Transitive for dynamic apps translation Put a Big Blue wrapper around your legacy apps and cut data centre operational expenses, floor space and energy costs. IBM has bought a company so it can migrate applications from competitor's boxes onto its own mainframes, PowerPC and Intel servers....

What next for virtualization after we sort our servers out? Virtual Insanity? When we asked Reg readers for their views on virtualization last year, we thought we'd found the voice of reason. We still do....

Main BBC channels to be broadcast live via web TV licence required Viewers in the UK will be offered broadcasts of BBC One and Two live online from 27 November, the BBC said today....

Pininfarina B0 production schedule slips Well sorted for lithium, though 'Leccy Tech The Pininfarina B0 - that's B 'zero', not B 'oh' - may be a few months late. The word from Pininfarina HQ in Cambiano, Italy is that the start of B0 production is now "scheduled for late 2009/early 2010" rather then being a dead cert for the end of next year....

Collaboration: dream or nightmare? (There's no F in Team) Wave after wave of collaboration software keep crashing on our organisational shores. but with the latest wave of social networking software, should we run for higher ground?...

German bawdy house offers free entry for life Willing punters queue for promotional brothel tattoo Cologne überbrothel Pascha has been surprised at the number of punters rushing to avail themselves of its free-membership-for-life promotion - unsurprisingly since customers have to have the knocking shop's name tattooed on their arm to redeem the offer....

Oz sex trade to spank parliamentary prudes Sex and politics do mix Australians are having a Sex Party - and before you all start sniggering at the back, this time they could be serious. Because depending on your point of view, this is either a cynical use of politics by an industry worried about its bottom line or the beginning of a fightback against government that has lost touch with ordinary voters....

Zinc fuel cell maker readies portable power pack Start-up Power Air has developed a zinc-powered power supply for gadgets. Longer term, zinc-air technology hopes to compete in transportation and backup power.

Minn. senate race could hinge on scanning machine mistakes The state's hand recount starting Wednesday may show that thousands of ballots were mistakenly rejected by optical scanning machines.

Woman Gets First Trachea Transplant Without Drugs A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday....