by Mike Krumboltz Cell phones have made life a lot easier. Alas, they're not perfect. For one, leaving a message can be a real chore. In many cases, you have to wait while a computerized voice drones on about how to leave a voicemail and the various options. One man, tired of listening to mobile phone carriers delay him from leaving messages, said "Enough!" Well, maybe not literally. But still  David Pogue , columnist with the New York Times,

by Claudine Zap Just weeks ago, we told you about an anonymous poster popping up in L.A. and online: The mash-up of Obama's photo with Heath Ledger "Dark Knight" clown paint and the caption "Socialism" that had the Web buzzing . Well, mystery solved. The creator of the odd message and the disturbing portrait is a 20-year-old student in Chicago, who supported Dennis Kucinich for president, and didn't vote in the last election. It was an educational,

We'd like to congratulate Vik Singh, architect of the Yahoo! Search BOSS team, who has just been picked as one of the 35 Young Innovators Under 35 for the Technology Review TR35 award . Vik is the brains behind the BOSS Mashup Framework , launched last July. Thousands of developers have begun using Yahoo! Search BOSS since its launch, using our open infrastructure to create some great, personalized search platforms. Since last summer,

More teens are using technology to access their grades and class assignments online as well as using the Internet to help with homework, according to a new study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). "Teens today are using more than just a calculator to help them with their studies," said Jessica Boothe, research analyst at CEA . "But they are taking this initiative on their own. In both public and private schools, there is low usage of technology.

by Vera H-C Chan Twisters are getting off to a lackadaisical start this year, but no matter how late, a storm that works itself up into a hurricane frenzy will get attention. Of three Atlantic tempests knocking around, Bill's the one that fulfilled hurricane aspirations and may go beyond a Category 3. Wild skies don't just kick people into disaster preparedness mode (witness lookups on Yahoo! for " storm doors ," " hurricane shutters ," and " hurricane supplies ").

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In July 2009, Americans conducted nearly 13.6 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.7 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 8.9 percent market share, a 0.5 percentage point gain versus June.

Fox News slammed SEO without even understanding what SEO is. On this slide foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2009/08/17/marketing-internet-scams?slide=6 from their Top Online Marketing Jobs to Leave You Friendless they cover SEO, and they do it with a typically Faux News sub-par form Ever wonder why "nonsense" Web sites sometimes turn up in your search results on Google or Yahoo?

Google introduced its Street View Partner Program today. This lets organizations and businesses apply to have their property featured in Street View on Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Maps for Mobile. "While we can't accept every property into the program, we are committed to providing Street View for as many interesting locations as possible," says Google's Phippe Dauman Jr. "We even built new Street View vehicles, like the pedal-powered Trike,

A little more than one month ago, we discussed how Google was asking regular people to give their thoughts about the National Broadband Plan. Now, the FCC's doing something similar, with a fresh blog and Twitter account apparently intended to reach out to the public. The Twitter account will perhaps be a sort of general-purpose thing, as it goes by the handle " fccdotgov " rather than anything broadband-related. Still,

eBay announced some changes to its user agreement today. The company says the changes were made to help it implement the changes announced in the Seller Release details in July. eBay Senior Counsel Scott Shipman explains the changes: The biggest change to the agreement supports the new on-eBay resolution process and accompanying policy. With this user agreement update, the policy and process will offer coverage for all buyers who purchase an item on eBay.com.