Globe and Mail Study Says Microbes Are Mopping Up Oil SpillWall Street JournalMicrobes may be making quick work of a vast oily plume from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to scientists who made the first direct measurements of deep-sea bacteria feeding on vestiges of the largest accidental...

New York Daily News Windows 7 Tablets: Just Say No, MicrosoftPC WorldMicrosoft is busy at work on a new tablet computer design, a product that may arrive from one or more of its hardware partners in "not a heck of a long time," CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday. …Ballmer...

Brisbane Times Steve Jobs death grips iPhone 4 realityRegisterOscar Wilde: On the contrary, it's only fact. Truth is quite another thing and is the work of the imagination When you hold the iPhone 4, does the signal fade more than it would on other popular smartphones, such as Apple's own...

Gamasutra OpenFeint moves on to Android phones with games from Hudson, othersGamePro.comGoogle's got a lot of work to do to catch up to Apple's robust App Store — nobody knows this better than game developers. OpenFeint, the company behind several iPhone games' social network capabilities,...

Christian Science Monitor Justices Allow Search of Work-Issued PagerNew York TimesWASHINGTON — A California police department did not violate the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it audited the text messages on a pager the city had issued him, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled...

Christian Science Monitor Justices Allow Search of Work-Issued PagerNew York TimesWASHINGTON — A California police department did not violate the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it audited the text messages on a pager the city had issued him, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled...

The Guardian (blog) Apple Design Awards Recognize IPhone, IPad AppsPC WorldFor many developers, there's no greater reward to their work than having it noticed by Apple. On Tuesday evening, the company held its annual Apple Design Awards to recognize those applications that best embody qualities...

BBC News Life questionsBBC NewsResearchers in the US have developed the first synthetic living cell. Their work, which many scientists have called a landmark study, is a key step towards the design and creation of new living things. BBC News examines the issues raised by this …Scientists Create...

Kansas City Star Adobe announces angst-laden iPad software effortCNETAdobe has begun a new effort to bring imaging software such as Lightroom to the iPad and other tablet computers–but the leader of the work also is fretting over the control Apple has over it. "I love making great Mac...

Times Online Hey, Facebook: You Have Some Serious Privacy and Security ProblemsPC WorldPrivacy controls that don't work, rampant phishing attacks, and the ability to hack live chats — can't Facebook do anything right? First, I need to get something off my chest. This blog, Thank You...