The rumor mill has been abuzz with stories of a possible Apple tablet, Netbook, or giant iPod. But those familiar with the device declined to reveal details about it or disclose its release date, the Journal noted.

A tablet has been in the works for some time. Apple was granted a patent on such a device last year. But the design process apparently hasn’t been a smooth one. Jobs halted the project twice, once because of poor battery life and again because of insufficient memory,

Experts in the nonprofit space say that while any upstart organization–like any start-up business–will want to have a strong presence on Facebook and Twitter, that it’s dangerous to rely too heavily on them. In order to be successful on Twitter, or on Causes, or with a Facebook fan page or YouTube channel, there needs to be legitimate promotion and effort, not to mention physical resources.

Harrison says he has no plans to give up on Twitter, even as it grows so big

The government is launching a talent search for students with cybersecurity skills.

The need for more security specialists in government has been acknowledged. President Obama said in May that the U.S. government “is not as prepared” as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by Internet attacks. And last week, a study from the Partnership for Public Service concluded that shortages in federal cybersecurity workers and a lack of leadership threaten national security.

Music industry executives in Europe have begun pressuring Global Gaming Factor, the company that intends to buy The Pirate Bay, to turn over to them any money it pays to acquire the site.

“We need to warn you that if GGF takes responsibility for The Pirate Bay service in its current form, or if GGF operates The Pirate Bay in any way in violation of applicable copyright law, we will be forced to take legal action.”

The IFPI also didn’t mince words about what

If approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, the project would include the construction and installation of two or three 242-megawatt power plants that would be operational by 2013 or 2014.

Once formed, Solar Trust acquired Solar Millennium, Solar Millennium AG’s Berkeley, Calif.-based subsidiary that already held the agreement with SCE.

Instead of using solar panels to convert light into electricity, the parabolic troughs used in these thermal solar

Since moving to Portland in 2005–land of not only good beer and bikes but also a number of renowned farmers’ markets–I’ve learned how to pick a peach. In fact, I spend so much time in the produce section that I recently landed a book deal while squeezing the avocados at my local produce market. (No seriously, the publisher called while I was squeezing avocados.)

Produce at a Northeast Portland farmers' market on May 23.

The metal oxide detector analyzes which ga

The new Any Mobile, Anytime plan essentially discounts this service for subscribers who only talk to other cell phone users by $30.

For just $69.99 a month, the new Any Mobile, Anytime plan allows subscribers to call any cell phone in the U.S., regardless of the carrier. The plan also comes with Sprint’s Everything Data plan, which includes unlimited text messaging and data services. Subscribers also get 450 voice minutes for calls to landlines. Subscribers already signed

Jha and Cole Brodman from T Mobile after introducing the new phone.

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10:37 a.m.: Social networking is a key app for mobile phones. Jha makes the dubious claim that the “vast majority” of social-network users have a presence on the Holy Trinity of social: Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Still, there’s no denying that mobile and social networking go together, with large n

Top 40 movies not out on Blu-ray

Click on any image to start the slideshow see the picks. The movies are listed in alphabetical order, and we didn’t include any TV shows. (Note: there’s a link on the last slide that will return you to this article to post or read comments).

One of the reasons people like to give for not buying a Blu-ray player is that there just aren’t that many Blu-ray discs out there and that a lot of great movies haven’t come out on Blu-ray. That’s not

Postgres has traditionally been a standalone, organic open-source project with little concerted corporate involvement. EnterpriseDB has started to change that, but for too long wrongly fixated on competing with MySQL, a database that serves a different market and different developers. The company also spent too much time talking about Oracle migration technology, rather than focusing on why Postgres is a great database.

Postgres is an enterprise Java database, more suitable for carr