KIMA - News - Tech http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech RSS Feed for KIMA - News - Technology en-us Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:33:55 GMT Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/23709834.html The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq. Brian Hart didn't channel his grief quietly. Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/23614039.html Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs - to identify criminals using text messages. Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/23613499.html This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. Teen charged with offering his vote on eBay http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/23116739.html A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor. Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22871089.html Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. Mars lander's next bake test could be its last http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22861799.html Engineers said a short circuit that occurred last month in one of its test ovens designed to shake and bake miniscule soil samples could happen again when the instrument is turned on. Batman, Bond trailers find big audiences online http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22861329.html It's been a so-so year for movies, but it's shaping up to be an excellent year for trailers. Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22861199.html A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access. Adobe releases tools to improve Flash video search http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22861109.html Adobe Systems Inc., the format's developer, has released a customized version of its Flash Player software that allows Google Inc.'s search engine and others to see the elements of Web pages embedded with Flash content the same way a human would. Microsoft to sell Office software for $70 a year http://www.kimatv.com/news/tech/22811959.html Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.