Music lovers pursue technologies to return to high fidelity
In hopes of regaining what is missing from an MP3 recording, Nashville businesses are returning to high fidelity technologies and products.

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Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Staying on Message
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook?s No. 2 executive, considers herself a role model for women. But her call isn?t simply about mentoring and empowering; it?s also a business strategy.



Slipstream: Employers and Brands Use Gaming to Gauge Engagement
More companies are turning to gamification — offering games that let their customers win points for certain activities ? as a way to build both loyalty and a trove of data.



Digital Domain: On HealthTap, Advice for You and Points for Doctors
On HealthTap, an interactive Web site, users can ask for medical advice, and doctors can gain whimsical ?awards? for their answers.



In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech Entrepreneur
In Silicon Valley, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personality. It signals that you are part of the in crowd.



Video Games: Curt Schilling, Former Red Sox Pitcher, Makes Video Games
Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, left baseball to start 38 Studios, a video game company, maker of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.



E.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes
Viviane Reding, the European Union justice commissioner, is pressing Google to halt changes to its privacy policies while the implications for personal data protection are being explored.



F.B.I. Admits Hacker Group?s Eavesdropping
The group known as Anonymous listened in on a call between the bureau, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies about their joint investigation of the group and its allies.



Steve Appleton, Micron Technology C.E.O., Dies in Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, whose death was considered a major loss for the struggling company, was piloting the small craft in Boise, Idaho.



Zuckerberg’s Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of Facebook?s initial public offering, which will translate into a big tax benefit for the company.

Apple overturns Motorola's ban
Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany.

FBI probes Anonymous phone hack
The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking.

BT vow fibre optic 'game changer'
Fibre optic broadband connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK next year, BT says.

Hackers fool bank security system
Criminal hackers have found ways around new security devices used for online banking, the BBC has learned.

Megaupload bail appeal rejected
Kim Dotcom's bail appeal is rejected by a New Zealand Court, as US campaigners hint at legal action to prevent files being deleted.

Google asked to pause rule change
An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy policy.

Micron's Appleton dies in crash
Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Boise, Idaho.

Blogger removal now 'per country'
Blogger, Google's blog platform, switches domains to make "per country" content removal possible.

Microsoft launches Kinect for PCs
A more costly version of Microsoft's record-breaking Kinect motion and voice sensor is now available for use on Windows.

Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.




Madelyn Wins Out in Facebook Poll to Name Baby
What?s in a name? A lot, according to the more-than-4,200 people who took the time to vote in Facebook poll to determine what Dave and Lindsey Meske of Crystal Lake, Ill., should name their newborn baby daughter. The Meskes set up the poll, which drew...




Micron CEO Killed in Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, the CEO of the semoconductor maker Micron Technology, Inc., was killed in a small plane crash at the airport in Boise, Idaho today. He was 51.




Stunning Red Aurora Captured
Alex Cherney, a software developer and self-described hobbyist astronomer based near Melbourne, captured a series of stunning Aurora Australis over the Mornington peninsula in Australia. ?It was my first visual aurora,? he told ABCNews.com. ?I was surprised, myself, when I saw it. I didn?t think it would be...




Steve Jobs Spoofed in Tablet Ad
Ad widely criticized on YouTube as tasteless; Apple has no comment.




SOPA and the Online Tsunami
The unprecedented online revolt against PIPA and SOPA, congressional bills targeting online copyright and trademark infringement, has many Washington insiders scratching their collective heads.




18-Mile Crack Seen in Antarctic Glacier
Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep. And it?s growing. In...




Teens Save Life Through Facebook
Two teens helped prevent a peer from killing himself.




Meet the New Facebook Millionaires
Facebook, in one of the world's most widely anticipated IPOs, or initial public offerings of stock, filed papers to raise at least $5 billion and begin to sell stock this spring.

CEO Appleton reflected Micron's risky existence
The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the high-risk memory chip business that is the company's bread and butter.

Tom Brady: I watched last year's Super Bowl on illegal site
In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy?

Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri
Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.

Super Bowl: Where to watch online, and more
As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.

Twitter more tempting than sex and sleep, study says
Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story.

Gamers ignore corpse in Internet cafe
In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check?

iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Was it even necessary?
A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what?

Zuckerberg's taxes on IPO? How about $2 billion
The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.

RCA's 'video LP' format, doomed from the start?
From 1981 to 1984 RCA marketed the CED VideoDisc system. It never had a chance.

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