Apple notes that while online shopping can be far more convenient than traditional retail stores, the experience can feel "sterile and isolating". To address that point, they propose showing users where other customers are in the store.

Adobe Air is an application platform which received some buzz recently. Air seems to make it relatively simple to write nice looking cross platform applications. Two weeks ago, it was released for Linux and I gave it a try. The results weren't satisfying.

An 18-year-old South Carolina student was in jail Sunday after he collected bomb-making supplies, including ammonium nitrate, in a plan to attack his high school, authorities said.

A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a U.S. pastor to more than three years in prison for smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia.

The show includes some 90 works, sampling Mr. Murakami’s entire whimsical world in paintings, wallpapers, colorful sculptures, drawings and a 20-minute animated video. It will consume 18,500 square feet of exhibition space spread over two floors.

The polls showed Clinton ahead in Pennsylvania, with Obama closing the gap. Since the "bitter" statement was said, just how much was Obama's chances of winning Pennsylvania hurt?

The sight was jarring Friday: Pope Benedict XVI at the Park East Synagogue just before the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Benedict encouraged worshipers to "continue building bridges of friendship" with different ethnic and religious groups.

Scot Hacker didn't even know he'd lost his phone until he saw a note on Twitter. From his own phone. An hour later, Hacker had retraced his steps and reclaimed his phone from the good Samaritan who discovered it, Silje Rygland.