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If I had to pick one well-known white wine variety that I could go back to time after time for a broad range of food pairings as well as everyday drinking, it would be sauvignon blanc hands down.
The entire episode concerned the death of a patient named Cathy Becker who appeared with her son in a flood of patients from a hotel fire. As the Chief and several other hospital higher-ups questioned the staff about how she died, the story unfolded in flashbacks.
In Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts cartoons, poor Linus waited in vain, year after year, for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. But TODAY brought a real-life great pumpkin to Rockefeller Plaza on Monday — a 1,725-pound behemoth that may have earned its growers a place in the record books.
Banking by cell phone is growing in popularity, and the recession may be the reason behind it, experts say, as people "micromanage" their money more than ever before.
Eight of America’s pet-friendly airlines today announced the launch of a new travel program that will put an end to the ongoing problem of travelers and their pets being bumped from flights because the pet carrier does not meet the airline requirements.
The Obama administration launched a new Web site on Tuesday that officials hope will make citizenship and other immigration services more accessible.
Hamstrung by the recession, most airlines are ramping up passenger fees for services once considered part of the ticket price. So far, fliers have not revolted.
Ending a three-year flirtation with free online content, Variety newspaper plans to put some of its Web site content behind a "pay wall" that will require a paid annual subscription, its publisher said Thursday.
A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida attack on the U.S.
They scour the Web in search of stolen phrases, dig through documents looking for evidence of looting. They can’t issue citations, but they can certainly let you know if you’ve failed to include one. Yes, the plagiarism police are on the job.
Chilean police say a young man distraught over a breakup with his girlfriend hanged himself while she watched over a Web camera.
After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news — its competition — and found itself in a plagiarism scandal.
Multimedia messaging will be available on the iPhone starting Sept. 25, according to AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the popular smartphone in the United States.
Want a recipe for a relaxing and successful late-summer lunch party? TODAY wine columnist Edward Deitch suggests delectable crab cakes along with these food-friendly wines from Austria and Spain.
The growing popularity of Web-address shortening services like bit.ly creates the potential for a bevy of broken links should one of the providers suddenly cease operations.
Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site.
Web address shortening service tr.im is back in business — just days after announcing it would trim itself out of operation.
The market for shrinking Web addresses is itself shrinking.
TODAY wine columnist Edward Deitch discovers ’07 reds from Yangarra that are serious and substantial while also being fun and easy to drink.
It's a shameless thing to do in an economic crisis.
It's a shameless thing to do in an economic crisis. Jobless people seeking information about their benefits on the Brazilian Labor Ministry's Web were forced to type in passwords such as "bum" and "shameless."
A South Texas newspaper says it will begin charging for access to its Web site this week, warning that the days of giving content away for free are over.
A few tips for employees regarding Internet and cell phone use:
Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead.
General Motors Corp. CEO Fritz Henderson said Tuesday that U.S. and global markets are stabilizing, which could indicate a turnaround in auto sales.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Palin Online -- Palin's Web Buzz Trumps Obama'sSarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, vice presidential nominee, and media celebrity far surpasses Obama when it comes to Google searches. Online, interest in Palin has surged in the past few days.
Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical TechniquesThe standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software
Does "net neutrality" violate the First Amendment?An interesting perspective, from The Goldwater Institute and Americans for Tax Reform.
Protecting Your Brand On The Online Yellow PagesWhy should you care about Online Yellow Pages when Google is most likely your primary source of traffic and ROI? The simple answer is because local search is on the rise, and with it so are opportunities for other advertisers to exploit your corporate name or brand, possibly to y …
There is a difference between on air and online. Of course on air was first. Before television, most American citizens, read a newspaper or heard it on a radio. The early days of on air goes through CBS, NBC, ABC.
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping UpThe use of cell phone/internet connectivity among jurors is resulting in mistrials and compromise of jury instructions. Perhaps courts should use contempt powers to enforce instructions to jurors not to use this technology during the course of the trial.
Tim Berners - WebmonkeySANTA CLARA, California — The man credited with founding the world wide web is both excited and cautious about its future
Thanks to Mozilla, Web Gets Less Ugly, Good Type Gets Machine ReadableRecently, a consortium of type designers and web designers have gathered around a new font format specification called Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The format would allow more typefaces to appear across the web and to be readable by both humans and search engines.
30 SEO Problems amp; the Tools to Solve Them (Part 1 of 2)Every day, SEOs are challenged in their jobs to solve problems big and small - some are technically complex, others are merely time consuming, repetitive and tedious. At SEOmoz, we love to build, use and recommend tools to help solve these issues.
Open Font Format Backed by Mozilla and othersType designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption could come sooner than many expected.
Google's new Social Search surprisingly useful - Ars TechnicaGoogle has unleashed a new type of web search: Social Search. The new service is available at Google Labs. It lets you search the web for writings by your contacts, assuming both you and they have Google accounts.
Blog Predecessor GeoCities Closes DownBefore Blogger and WordPress made online publishing easy for the masses, a service called GeoCities helped newbies create their own homepages.
Net set for 'language shake-up'The internet is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal - initially approved in 2 …
McCain Moves to Block FCC Net NeutralityThe FCC voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the debate in an effort to formalize net neutrality guidelines. Senator John McCain followed up by introducing a bill that would prohibit the FCC from governing communications.
Five Essential Tips For Any Internet Start-Up: How My Website Made it Into Fortune MagazineIt was in the summer of 2006 when I decided, like Twisted Sister once bravely proclaimed several decades before me, that I wasn't going to take it anymore.
Web creator apologises for his strokesA LIGHT has been shone on one of the great mysteries of the internet. What is the point of the two forward slashes that sit directly infront of the "www" in every internet website address?
Did the FCC bribe US carriers on net neutrality? Debate at this week's CTIA shindig has apparently been about efficient spectrum use, but is the FCC just bribing the network operators to accept net neutrality without a fight?
US Relaxes Control Over ICANNThe US will still be involved; every three years, ICANN's work will be evaluated by a committee, one member of which will be from the Dept. of Commerce.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
New device brings wireless Internet to boatsWe have Internet access in planes now (Virgin America offers it in the US, for example), so why not on boats? That's what one of Japan's biggest telecommunications companies, KDDI, thought and now gives us a device that will allow ship passengers to enjoy wireless broadband I …
Ways the web has changed the worldWhen the Telegraph published a list of 50 things that are being killed off by the internet we were surprised by the thousands of passionate responses from readers.
Online News May Soon Cost MoneySAN FRANCISCO -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions.
Web Censoring Widens Across Southeast Asia"Attempts to censor the Internet are spreading to Southeast Asia."
Ads on Twitter: How Would Users React?Twitter has yet to turn on any major revenue stream, despite being in business since 2006. However, Twitter opened the door to the possibility of advertising in both its TOS and a blog post announcing the changes.
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