If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.

A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.

Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.

The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.

Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.

Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie.

At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.

TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.

Carrier sells more phones the first day the iPhone 3GS went on sale than it ever has, even on the two previous iPhone launch days, according to an internal memo.

Although solid-state drives are in vogue, market forces and technical issues are making them a little less appealing than before.

Robotics engineer Ronald Arkin talks about giving robots a built-in "guilt system" that could make them better at avoiding civilian casualties; Jammie Thomas-Rasset plans to appeal RIAA case; and Waledac spam set to explode over July 4th weekend.

For several minutes following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital last week, Microsoft's Bing search engine buried news results for searches on his name.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped its first test images, showing the moon's starkly cratered terrain in preparation for the start of mapping operations.

The Dutch central government reports on its adoption of open-source software, finding significant benefits in its significant movement to open source.

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that it is investigating a settlement involving Google Book Search for possible antitrust violations, following months of speculation that the agency had its eye on the service.

A U.S. judge on Friday overruled a jury verdict and dismissed a case against a Missouri woman convicted last November in a cyberbullying case that led to a teenager's death, according to published reports.

Whew! If you've been paying attention to the Mac Gems Weblog for the past six weeks, you know that it's been home to GemFest 2009, a Gem-a-day marathon of over 50 Gem reviews. We ended GemFest 2009 on Tuesday with a quick rundown of some of our all-time-favorite Gems, and today marks our return to the regular two-Gems-each-week schedule. I'll get back to reviewing great, inexpensive Mac software next week, but today I'm going to tell you about an accessory Gem that I've been wanting to cover since I saw a prototype at Macworld Expo back in January.

One of the reasons security is fun and interesting is that it requires a constant upgrade of your skills and knowledge.

Customer forum complaints about shoddy hardware in the Palm Pre are hard to put in perspective, analysts said, since the Pre is a first-generation device and it is the WebOS operating system, not the hardware, that is more likely to hold the keys to Palm's future success.

Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's arms around as a real cloud. A seemingly limitless pool of processors and memory and disk space, and you just scoop out what you need. Sounds great, doesn't it?

An online ad for Internet Explorer 8 that showed a woman projectile vomiting has left such a bad taste in viewers' mouths that Microsoft has decided to remove it.

Consumers running Windows Vista Ultimate, who have blasted Microsoft for breaking promises to deliver a host of extras, are now knocking the company's upgrade plans and discount pricing for Windows 7.

Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them.

Stanford University researchers are designing wind turbine kites that would fly to heights of 30,000 feet to reach powerful winds that could be used as alternative energy sources.

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Internet marketers have agreed on a set of seven principles for online ads to foster consumer trust and forestall government regulation.

The iPhone-maker may be on track to fix one of the biggest complaints about the smartphone, and to add RFID and biometric identification capabilities.

Growth of the wide-area technology slowed in the economic meltdown, but analysts predict the deployment of WiMax equipment will take off again by year end.

Consulting service would encourage the concept of hybrid clouds -- open source private clouds that align with Amazon's EC2 public cloud.

The search giant is tailoring its results to fit better on a mobile screen, and it will also include relevant data from Google News, Google Images, and other Web properties.

An SMS vulnerability in Apple's iPhone is slated for disclosure at the Black Hat conference later this month. Apple is reportedly rushing to get a fix ready.

Bling Nation is entering the highly competitive space filled with deep-pocketed rivals such as Visa and MasterCard.

Online retailers, led by Amazon and Overstock, are resisting state legislators' efforts to raise revenue with online sales taxes.

Users have complained of handsets overheating while using applications that tap the iPhone's GPS and 3G wireless components.

The 3.0 version of Ovi Maps includes 3-D views, weather information, walking directions, and a host of other features.

The controversial requirement that PCs in China come with the Green Dam Web filter may have been postponed, but the rule will be implemented, a Chinese official insists.

BeautyMeter showed a nude picture of a 15-year-old girl. It's the second explicit app Apple has removed from the App Store in the last week.

First American Spatial Solutions and ESRI have released Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS.

Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi position app is already a standard feature on tens of millions of Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices.

Largest acquisition in the company's history strengthens its position as the third-largest personal lines carrier in the U.S. and makes it the top auto insurer in several states, including California.

AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

AP - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.

AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.

AP - When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go — a totally innovative idea back in 1979.

AP - Sometimes Twitter can make newcomers feel like twits because the online messaging service isn't as simple as it sounds.

AFP - A woman who was convicted of computer fraud in an Internet hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old girl was tentatively acquitted Thursday by a federal judge.

Macworld.com - BenVista has released the latest version its photo enlargement sofware, PhotoZoom Pro 3.

NewsFactor - European space transportation provider Arianespace launched its largest satellite ever on Wednesday on behalf of TerreStar Networks -- a Virginia-based company that intends to inaugurate a hybrid satellite/cellular service in the United States and Canada later this year.

AP - As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday Night."

PC World - What's worse than paying $50 a year more than Games For Windows Live gamers, just to play Xbox 360 games online?

PC World - The folks at Facebook don't seem to be taking much downtime this summer. After announcing a revamped approach to user privacy control this week, the Facebook team is now preparing to launch a new and improved Facebook application for the iPhone.

Reuters - Oracle Corp plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about 1 percent of its global staff, as the recession erodes the giant software company's earnings, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.

PC World - Conficker may not dominate the headlines any longer, but it's still going strong, according to Trend Micro's Malware Blog and stats from the Conficker Working Group.