Sprint Running Short on New Instinct Smart Phones, Analyst Says - Bloomberg
June 27 (Bloomberg) — Sprint Nextel Corp. , the third- biggest U.S. wireless carrier, is running short of the touch screen Instinct e-mail phone it began selling last week in a challenge to Apple Inc.’s iPhone, an analyst said. Pali Research analyst

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft - Reuters
REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every

David Sedaris: I’m a Mac - CNET News
SAN FRANCISCO–The staff of Beyond Binary has been working hard, so I decided to take the whole crew on a field trip Thursday night to hear our favorite author–David Sedaris. Sedaris was in San Francisco Thursday to read from his latest book, When

5.6 million pension records may be flawed - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
About 1.4 percent of employees pension account records stored on microfilm do not match computer records, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The figure was announced Friday after a random sampling suggested that 5.6 million of 400

Wards didn’t tell consumers about credit card hack - Newsday
NEW YORK - An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers’ credit card numbers — but didn’t inform the consumers, revealing how data breaches might be heavily undercounted even with new notification laws. At least 51

Marking Gates’ last day–with videos - CNET News
Well, it’s finally here: Bill Gates’ final, official day at Microsoft as a full-time employee. To mark this historic moment–33 years in the making–we’ve been combing through our video archives to find some memorable stuff. Origin of PC clones

Microsoft’s XP May Be Gone, But Its Profits Linger - CNN Money
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will stop selling its ubiquitous XP operating system on Monday. But that doesn’t mean the seven-year-old software won’t continue contributing to the company’s financial performance for

Divers search for 12-year-old girl in lake; analyzing computer - Rutland Herald
BROOKFIELD — Police investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old Vermont girl are focusing on the online communication she had before she vanished Wednesday. Col. James Baker, director of Vermont State Police, says investigators aren’t ruling

Orbino ships Aria luxury case for MacBook Air - MacNN
Accessory maker Orbino has released a new notebook case, the Aria . The case is designed specifically for the MacBook Air, and as a result is extremely slim; to store more than the computer, owners are expected to attach a removable accessroies