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Newspaper publishers can now limit the number of free articles people can read via Google, according to a posting on the web giant's blog. To make this happen, Google will adapt its First Click Free program. At the moment, users'...

Over the past three months I observed trails over the local area close to Fort Hood, TX. Usually ocurring very early in the morning the sky starts to develop very elongated trails which resemble contrails. There's only one problem. They...

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating a breach in which a manual detailing sensitive airport screening procedures appeared on a government website, officials said Tuesday. Legislators criticized the TSA for inadvertently revealing information such as the criteria for...

This week's chill helps send the vines in the famed wine region into "a good state of dormancy," said Bill Hanna, a member of the Napa Valley Grapegrowers board and a fifth-generation California grape grower...Low temperatures and frost become a...

Colorado — Vail Mountain will open another 800 acres of terrain Wednesday thanks to the storm that started Tuesday. Beginning at 9 a.m., Wednesday, the following lifts and portions of terrain in these areas will open: • Avanti Express Lift...

Weather permitting, the peak time to view the Geminid (jem-uh-nid) meteor show will be around midnight Sunday Eastern time when up to 140 meteors per hour could streak across the sky. Though not as famous as the Perseid meteor shower,...

Bay Inc executive showed the Internet giant was aware that a competing online classifieds site it launched while sitting on the board of Craigslist was a sensitive issue to be handled delicately, according to court testimony on Tuesday. EBay executives...

MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million. In a blog post, MySpace Chief Executive Owen...

While Cisco built its fortune specializing in the Internet's "plumbing," routers and switches for computing networks, it is transforming to capitalize on trends such as online video and software offered as services "in the cloud." "We were very good at...