I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles . I’m always telling my friends about Google Reader, and while some of them love it, others don’t want to take the time to set it up. For those of you who fall into this second category, we’re announcing Google Reader Play , a new product that makes the best stuff in Reader more accessible...

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Corey Haim , the 80s teen movie idol who grew into a cautionary tale of the perils of childhood fame, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose at the age of 38. More »

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Mozilla's home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before , but in the raw benchmark game, it's starting to fall behind its competitors . To up its game, Firefox's developers are building a new engine, dubbed JägerMonkey . Ars Technica writes that the new compiler uses some open-source WebKit code to get the job done, including parts of Apple's just-in-time...

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Last March,we launched the YouTube Mobile app for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones. Since then, the application was translated to 12 languages, installed on millions of devices around the world, and has been chosen as a Nokia Ovi Top App of 2009 . Today we’re releasing the latest version of the YouTube Mobile app, version 2.4. We strongly believe that faster is better.The YouTube Mobile app is designed...

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With the impending launch of the Apple iPad , the Cupertino-based company's shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions. While it was one thing to forgo Flash on a small, mobile device such as the iPhone or iPod Touch, some are questioning whether lack of Flash support is going to be a make-it-or-break it feature for the new slate devices arriving...

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Eric Massa, the gift that keeps on giving. According to shipmates from his days in the Navy, Massa had a well-known habit of hitting on his fellow sailors, information that was supplied to the Congressional ethics committee. Massa resigned the next day. According to Peter Clarke, a Navy shipmate, Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates. He tells the story of his friend...

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WASHINGTON — A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul. It will come down to a phenomenal effort by congressional leaders and the White House to win over skittish lawmakers after a year of incendiary debate, even as Obama keeps up campaign-style...

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One can only wonder: Had the Shock stayed in Detroit, would local fans have witnessed Marion Jones' foray into basketball? The disgraced sprinter signed Wednesday with the WNBA's Shock, which relocated from the Palace to Tulsa, Okla., this off-season.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Iranian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan isn't much of a problem for the United States - yet.

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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that New York City owns the name Tavern on the Green because the former operator of the landmark restaurant in Central Park, Warner LeRoy, had trademarked the name "fraudulently."

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A Gaza lawyer says he expects his client, British free-lance journalist Paul Martin, to be released from Hamas custody.

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Funny that: Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles. Mr. Ensign, Republican of Nevada, suggested that a Las Vegas development firm hire the husband, Douglas Hampton,...

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