Thousands of journalists and technicians began a 24-hour strike at the BBC in response to expected job cuts.

Oil futures for the July contract moved past $49 a barrel on Monday after prices fell 36 cents before the opening trade of 48.15. These prices come after 3 month lows last week as the June contract closed out well below $47 a barrel.

In a move that’s sure to please privacy junkies everywhere, an online dating service has announced the integration of Google Maps into their site, allowing members to look up, address-wise, the location of other members.

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In the decades since World War II, economics prowess replaced military power as the crucial geopolitical determinant. The resilience of a country is measured by its inflows of foreign investment and by the balance of its current account – not by the number of its tanks and brigades.

In a move that is sure to please the entertainment industry, a search engine devoted to peer-2-peer file sharing is preparing to launch.

Microsoft will face fines of up to $5 million a day if it fails to meet the deadline set by the European Commission to change its business practices in Europe. The company has until the end of May.

Google’s 2005 U.S. Puzzle Championship will be held in just under a month, on June 18, 2005.

Between 2003 and 2004, subscribers to cable broadband increased to 41 million, a 22 percent rise.

PGA and LPGA professionals helped the StorageTek Foundation raise $50,000 for the Denver Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

A ripe and fermented “Duh!” resounded from the labs of Israel’s (wait for it) RAMBAM Medical Center in Haifa upon the release of scientific confirmation of what we already knew. Brain damaged people don’t understand sarcasm.

Software veteran Dan Bricklin (remember VisiCalc?) started podcasting last week…

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple Computer was in talks with Intel leading to speculation that Apple may put Intel chips in its Macs.

In this three part article, you’ll find many tools that any webmaster can use to monitor your site’s search engine position, and use to increase the visibility of your site in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

John Donovan, a 24-year veteran of American and Asian technical journalism, takes the magazine’s helm.

A new processor from the chipmaker offers desktop-style computing on mobile and embedded platforms.

The nature of the DMOZ directory dictates the use of human editors to populate the index. Because of this, DMOZ has been a topic of discussion amongst many who feel they’ve been treated unfairly.

Oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyers are optimistic that the reading of his verdict will be over before too long, though judges have not indicated when it will be finished.

Retail sales online increase by nearly 24% over the previous year’s first quarter, according to the Commerce Department.

The Venture County Star recently announced that it has shut off comments on its website because the tone of those comments had grown too vicious and incendiary.

Over 100,000 customers of Wachovia Bank and Bank of America have been notified by the banks that employees may have stolen their financial records.

But the Sunnyvale-based portal company has profited handsomely from their foray into the Internet search market.

Microsoft has been given until the end of the month to comply with the European Commission’s ruling for it to change its practices in Europe. If Microsoft doesn’t comply, it will be fined up to $5 million a day.