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With the development of Chrome OS, Google is ready to take...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google and Microsoft have long competed for talent and the attention of Wall Street, but the two have never taken each other head on. Google's main business is search. Microsoft's is Windows and Office software...
Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash
Although Facebook didn’t buy AOL’s patent portfolio the other week — it was gobbled up by Microsoft for $1 billion — it’s going to get a big serving of those patents anyway: Microsoft and Facebook today announced...
Was would-be Obama assassin a Republican convention page?
On the heels of a failed plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, it appears one of the would-be killers attended the 2008 Republican National Convention as a page...
‘Hacktivists’ rally around WikiLeaks, attack corporate sites
With the political pressure mounting, WikiLeaks is becoming too hot for some business to handle. Companies such as MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, which processed donations to the site, and Swiss bank PostFinance, which held the foundation’s account, have all cut ties ...
Medicinal-marijuana growers troubled at lack of organic oversight
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Want to buy organic carrots? No...
Elizabeth Smart’s abductor found guilty of kidnapping, rape
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal jury in Salt Lake City on Friday convicted a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher of kidnapping and repeatedly raping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, rejecting arguments by the defense that Brian David Mitchell was insane at the ...
Regional event to draw nonprofit bike groups
Nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization Community Cycles will host the Mountain States Bike! Bike! Conference March 19 through March 21 in Boulder...
Campaign to legalize marijuana kicks off Wednesday
A movement to get marijuana legalization on the 2012 ballot in Colorado begins on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at the Best Western Boulder Inn (770 28th Street, On the 28th Street Frontage Road near Baseline). Titled “Legalize 2012,” the campaign kickoff event will feature ...
Sony Hackers Stole $253M Worth of Music Files
It appears that hackers who breached Sony’s networks last year...
Sorority masturbator
Boulder police officers arrested a 27-year-old Longmont man on suspicion of indecent exposure after witnesses reported that he was masturbating in his car in front of a sorority house in the 900 block of 16th Street on Feb. 26...
