Ton of tossed computers irk Hooksett official

A recently elected member of the town budget committee is questioning why the school department dumped more than three tons worth of old computer equipment at the town's transfer station on Tuesday.

EBay 2Q profit rise 26 pct on PayPal, marketplace

EBay 2Q profit rise 26 pct on PayPal, marketplace Updated Jul 21, 2010 11:28PM MDT EBay Inc. said Wednesday that its second-quarter income climbed 26 percent as more people transferred money through its PayPal payment service and shopped on its main website. The online auction site operator also gave lower-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, predicting that a strengthening dollar ...

As Facebook stumbles, a tipping point?

Is Facebook the next MySpace or the next eBay? One is the butt of every flash-in-the-pan Internet joke, the other a cash cow that survived terrible growth pains by achieving 800-pound-gorilla status. Which way is Facebook headed? Recent reports suggest Facebook is a customer service nightmare, a cesspool of fraud, a privacy nightmare and a breeding ground for computer attacks. It also might be ...

TechBits: Spectrum, Cloud computing, Google

WASHINGTON - U.S. federal officials are beginning work on a comprehensive inventory of the nation's radio spectrum in hopes of finding more capacity for wireless high-speed Internet connections.

How the Microsoft Azure appliance changes the cloud computing skyscape

This story was published on July 12, 2010 in the print version of The Seattle Times. WASHINGTON Microsoft executive Bob Muglia said he was meeting with a chief information officer last year when the man grabbed him and said, "You don't get it. We never want another update from Microsoft again."