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Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras (156 diggs) The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts. Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters.

How to know if your iPhone battery is on Death Row (154 diggs) The ugly truth about your iPhone battery? It's got a lifespan of less than two years, but may not even last that long if you're careless. Here are expert tips to help you take better care of it - and then know when to send it to that recycling bin in the sky.

Google Issues Statement On Nexus One Sales (277 diggs) Numbers released by Flurry Analytics yesterday suggested that Google's Nexus One had sold around 135,000 units in 74 days (the same amount of time it took the iPhone to hit a million) -- not a staggering number by any measure.

Silicon Sweatshops: iPhone manufacturers suffer nerve damage (366 diggs) The mysterious illness began with an odd tingling of the fingers one week, a creeping numbness in the feet the next. Sometimes, deep and painful muscle cramps would wake the factory workers from their dorm beds. Weeks later, many of the workers simply couldn’t walk right, staggering across the factory grounds.

Hacker Disables Over 100 Cars Remotely (736 diggs) More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control earlier this month, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Twitter Will Be Available in China…Someday (238 diggs) While most of the world happily enjoys Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.

Web sites that can take a punch (217 diggs) The recent, well-publicized cyberattack on Google was just the latest skirmish in a long war. And like most long wars, this one features an arms race, as hackers seek out new security holes, and web site administrators try to close them.

The New IE9: More HTML5, CSS3, and No Windows XP (528 diggs) Today, Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9. The preview is bare-bones: after playing around with it, I can tell you that it doesn't have much in terms of user interface. This is more of a proof-of-concept than a web browser. Still, it provides a good glimpse into what we can expect from IE9: a complete reboot.

Broadband Plan: A Guide to America's Internet Revolution (365 diggs) The federal government plans to give Americans the world's fastest Internet access. Not everyone is thrilled with the "National Broadband Plan": Television broadcasters say it will compromise their business, and are already gearing up to fight it. Here, a concise guide to the FCC's plan, what it could mean for Americans—and why it might not work

Movies on Your iPhone? Apple Buys Several Projector-Related (236 diggs) We've known for some time that Apple would like to cram a projector into its next iPhone, but are they on track to really do so? It looks that way, at least according to a handful of patents Apple has applied for.

Oops: Google Denied Trademark on Android Nexus One (507 diggs) It's been a rough day for Google's Android phone, the Nexus One. First we learned this morning that initial sales have been far weaker than the iPhone saw ...and now this

The Impact of Earnings on Internet Access (Graphic) (430 diggs)

MySpace Selling User Data (777 diggs) Information being sold to third parties includes blog posts, photos, status updates, and more.

Google's St. Patrick's Day Tribute (PIC) (600 diggs) A little Luck of the Irish!

Why Cisco's New Router Could Be Trouble For Hollywood (1,679 diggs) When technology leaps ahead of business models, it's often bad for profits. Cisco's new router poses just such a threat to the titans of movie making.

8 Things You Didn't Know About Windows Phone 7 (266 diggs) Details of Windows Phone 7 and the development environment are coming to light at Microsoft's MIX10 Web developer conference.

Fastest site on the Web: The IRS? (333 diggs) Performance monitoring service Gomez has released its annual list of major websites with the best overall responsiveness as measured by Gomez over the entire year 2009. Surprise winner: IRS.gov, a site that uses images sparingly and pushes off large documents to PDF format for downloading, rather than trying to serve them as Web pages.

Cable Company Lies About Taking Over All Streaming Video (726 diggs) According to a Charter Communications rep, starting May 1st, cable companies will have total, FCC-sanctioned control over streaming video and will take down all competing services.

IE9 'crazy fast', but rivals still have the speed edge (389 diggs) Internet Explorer 9 is 'crazy fast' according to Microsoft, but the Sunspider JavaScript results published by the company show that the latest browser from Redmond still lags behind many of its rivals.

Windows Phone 7 Series won't have copy and paste (300 diggs) Ready for another long, drawn-out copy and paste controversy to overtake your every waking moment for a year or two? Good. Microsoft has you covered.

25 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone (413 diggs) One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications.

Nexus One hits for AT&T 3G and Rogers 3G bands (259 diggs) That's it folks -- the heat is on. Today Google's Nexus One has hit the virtual shelves equipped for 3G action on AT&T and Rogers networks... free of any contracts or nasty carrier locks. Developing...

Hey Microsoft, Don't F*ck Up Windows Phone 7 (543 diggs) Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7. At least on paper. But instead of trying to beat them completely, it seems that you want to screw it all with two stupid decisions.

Are Smart Phones Making Us Dumb? (226 diggs) Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, is the person most often called "the father of the Internet." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

NPR, WSJ will be Flash-free Web sites for Apple iPad (328 diggs) Steve Jobs' master plan of killing flash is slowly starting to work.