Forrester Research says the odds are against it. In its new report, "Podcasting Hits the Charts," the firm claims only 1% of online households in North America regularly download and listen to podcasts. Not many.

 Residents in Burbage, Leicestershire are getting themselves all steamed up about a new addition to their local industry. A topless carwash, aptly named Bubbles ´n´ Babes, has opened up on an industrial estate much to the chagrin of local people.

Research studies, based at the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrate that biodegradable nano-particles containing two potent cancer-fighting drugs are effective in killing human breast tumors.

A dozen major Beijing-based Internet portals have called for the industry to ban sex and violence content.

Benjamin Cohen:  Google AdSense lies at the heart of Google’s advertising empire. AdSense ads are the funny little text boxes that are scattered across the internet, displaying links related to the content on a web page. For many sites, AdSense has become the sole source of income, with some small one man band publishing outfits […]

Paul Graham:  A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I’d been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I’d only applied for three. The patents aren’t mine, of course. They were assigned to Viaweb, and became Yahoo’s when they bought us. But the news set me thinking about the […]

Tech workers are back in hot demand, according to a report released Monday. Tech-sector job cuts in the first quarter of 2006 were 40 percent lower than the same quarter last year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., an employment consulting firm.

Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to hardwire encryption
technology into a microprocessor, promising a more secure way to store
data.