But knowing where the candidates stand on high-tech topics like digital copyright, surveillance, and Internet regulation can be revealing, which is why we’ve put together this 2008 Technology Voters’ Guide.

Q: Politicians have been talking for years about the need for high-speed Internet access. Should this be accomplished primarily through deregulation and market forces, or should the federal government give out grants or subsidies, or enact new laws?
McKinney: Thi

That should make it easier for a whole new range of location-based services from finding nearby friends to LoJack-like PC tracking programs. Even search could be a whole lot better if the search engine knew where you were. Indeed, searchers often enter their city with their location to try and get just that benefit.

In fairness, location-based services are actually more secure in Windows 7 than in the past. That’s because in past versions of Windows, there was rea

MacKay parking meter reads $999.99

“If they’re not using encryption, they’re probably doing it wrong,” Appelbaum added.

The parking meters are manufactured by J.J. MacKay Canada and accept coins and prepaid plastic cards that can be purchased in $20 and $50 denominations from local drugstores and grocery stores.

Appelbaum and his colleagues are presenting their research on Thursday afternoon at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. T

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I’ve been writing a lot lately about SpringSource, largely because it has demonstrated a big vision (nothing less than the redefinition of the application server and an end-to-end application story), and so I wasn’t terribly surprised today to see VMware buy SpringSource for $420 million. On roughly $20 million in sales, much of that services, it’s a rich valuation, but one that is absolutely deserved given SpringSource’s potential.

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Delicious, the social-bookmarking service owned by Yahoo, has unveiled home page changes that are intended to do a better job of showcasing links that are currently popular. Although Delicious isn’t sharing the exact details of its algorithm, it apparently includes using the number of Twitter messages related to a given item.

In general, social bookmarking services have also failed to surface the data that they have stored in ways that allow for useful and serendipitous ex

Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The problems seem to have begun around 4 p.m. PDT. There is nothing to indicate that the site has suffered anything similar to the denial-of-service attack that knocked the site offline for an extended period last week.

Although users could add updates to the site, their tweets were not apparent to others on the site, according to several users contacted by CNET News, as well as our experience her

As for ringtones, they have been a boon to the music industry. In the past, consumers have shown a willingness to pay as much as $3 to hear a few seconds of a favorite song when receiving an incoming call.

Apple will announce the ringtones on September 9, the day the company has scheduled a press event, if managers can get them ready in time to sell, the sources said. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

Owners of Apple’s iPhone have long had the ability to create

The interesting thing is that Apple does it all without saying a word. That is part of the magic. It is the mystique that surrounds Jobs and the entire company. Take the buzz surrounding the rumored music event in September. There are hundreds of stories, but Apple hasn’t even confirmed that there will be an event.

Take as examples iPhoto, iDVD, and iMovie. With a click of a button, you can make slideshows and movies, and then burn them to a DVD. One of the biggest Apple suc

Just where The Pirate Bay will go next or how long the site will be down isn’t clear. The founders of the site have vowed to continue operating the site no matter what.

The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day Monday after a group representing copyright owners forced the BitTorrent search engine’s bandwidth provider to cut off service, according to a published report.

Update: 11:05 p.m. Monday: To note that the site was down most of Monday.

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But what’s more surprising, Lacy found, is that the high demand for Facebook cash-outs seems to run contrary to Silicon Valley’s characteristic idealism.

And working at a tech start-up, with its casual dress code, oddball hours (think college-style all-nighters fueled by Red Bull and pizza), and young workforce, can seem like a limbo of adolescence–even if the old dot-com stereotypes of Foosball tables and free beer are kept to a minimum. As short-sighted and greedy as it may seem,