An Islandâs Fire Truck, Idle for Years, Goes Quickly on the Web
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The Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation sold an unwanted firetruck on Craigslist to a fire company in southern Pennsylvania for more than $75,000.
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The five-hour bus ride between two Baltic capitals just got easier. With constant internet access, a couple of flat-screen TVs and a built-in espresso machine, time flies. By Cyrus Farivar.
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Also: Feds slow in getting records on Web. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Blog: Although it was announced back in April, the Internet video site, still in limited testing, is getting renewed attention this week.
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Autobytel offers a truckload of potential at a compact price.
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Google, the Internet search engine, has done something that law enforcement officials and their computer tools could not: Identify a man who died in an apparent hit-and-run accident 11 years ago in this small town outside Yakima.
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Ben Adams used the Internet and took some big risks to recover his 1949 Chevy truck.
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As the big name CIO keynoting at this yearâs Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Rob Carter of Federal Express could have been forgiven for doing a deep dive on how his 7,000-person IT team is using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), mashups, Web video, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python), and other checkbox items from the cool-tools list. But Carter took things in a different direction: talking philosophically about how the Internetâs impact is accelerating changes in the way the world interacts and in the way IT works.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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MicrosoftÂs online chief wants to change the way his company runs its Internet business. But he is finding that redirecting such a behemoth is slow going.
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When Bill Clayton, one of four San Diego County division chiefs of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, was asked last week about the use of innovative technologies to fight forest fires, he described his profession&#39;s evolution this
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An obscure government website that became an Internet conflagration
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--MANATEE -- On the same day that the state issued a heightened wildfire awareness alert, a controlled burn got out of hand in Parrish during a land clearing operation off Mendoza Road.
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Imagine watching TV on your handheld while sitting around a campfire. Or making a free telephone call over the Internet from your mobile phone while strolling down the street.
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Most machines don't improve with use. Old pickup trucks don't gradually become Ferraris just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won't change into a supercomputer by crunching lots of numbers. The human body is different...
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Chevrolet asks web users to make their own video spots for its Tahoe SUV. A case study in customer-generated advertising. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.