Changing zoning laws one grape at a time. T.J. Rodgers is an outsize personality with an outsize dream to produce the best pinot noir in the world.. at an outsize winery.

ZTE Selects Tundra Semiconductor for Next Generation Platform. Tundra's PCI Express Product Brings Maximum Performance to New Graphics Card OTTAWA, Aug.

Asian markets sink on economic and Gustav worries. South Korean workers walk past an electronic stock board at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept.

Harman International and Wipro Form Engineering Partnership in India. Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, September 02, 2008 -- Harman International Industries Inc.

Agilent Technologies Introduces Customizable, Easy-to-Use Display.. Agilent Technologies Inc. today released a display tester designed for easy, customizable setup for visual testing of up to five major display formats.

Liberal group urges Dewhurst investigation. A campaign watchdog group is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.

Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? Engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should fix engineering problems.

Micro Express JFL9226 All-Purpose Laptop. Micro Express has previously topped our charts with affordable portables such as its IFL9025. So our expectations for the company's first machine with Intel's Centrino 2 were pretty high. Keeping true to form, Micro Express comes through with the..

They Know Where You Are. Your computer knows what you did last weekend -- but that's okay because most of your other gadgets do, too. Your browser remembers your Web reading list, your cellphone saved your calls, and your MP3 player can recite the songs you heard.

Navajos Could Lose Net Access. A large swath of the sprawling Navajo Nation could lose access to the Internet today, in a dispute that threatens services from personal e-mail to police radio communications on the 27,000-square-mile reservation.

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border. Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

FCC Action Against Comcast Meets Mixed Reactions. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's decision Friday to prohibit Comcast from slowing peer-to-peer traffic was met with a wide range of reactions, with some groups calling the vote a huge victory for broadband subscribers and others saying it opens up the Internet to meddlesome new..

Taking a Dip in The Online Stream. Of all European summer music festivals, the Bayreuth Festival may be the hardest ticket. Devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner, presented in the theater that he built, it receives so many requests for its two-month season that people wait for years to get in. Last Sunday saw the first performance..

Virtual Gridiron Arrives Early with Maden Update. RALEIGH, N.C. Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary "Madden NFL 09" game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers' colors on the cover.

Should We Care About Web Censorship in China? Aside from air pollution, the one issue that has occupied the final days before the Beijing Olympics is Internet censorship.

MSI Offers Wind Netbook With Better Batteries. Micro-Star International will later this month offer a new version of its Wind mini-laptop with a far better, 6-cell battery, than the one currently on offer.

Missing Laptop Grounds US Registered Traveler Program. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has temporarily stopped a vendor from signing up new customers for its Registered Traveler program after a company laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of 33,000 people went missing at the San Francisco International Airport.

U.S. Loses out in Lenovo's Linux Netbook Push. People in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the U.K., will be offered the company's new IdeaPad netbooks with either Microsoft Windows XP or a Linux OS, but users in the U.S. won't have that option.

One $12-Gaming-Console Per Child? Can a 20-year-old gaming console be the way to offer truly low-cost computing to Third World students?.

Clever iPhone Tricks. I'm now the owner of an Apple iPhone 3G, after waiting out the first-generation model.