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Several major cable companies and a public interest group asked the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to intervene in disputes over transmission fees to prevent broadcasters from withholding signals from subscribers.

TEHRAN -- The bearded blogger stood before an effigy of an Islamic warrior towering over the letters "WWW."

Montgomery County school officials have not yet closed gaps in their computer system that allowed students at a high-performing Potomac high school to change dozens of grades using a device that can be bought from Amazon.com for $69. And other school systems, including Fairfax County, remain just...

Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week. This inaugurates what all TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.

On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.

Another video rental store might have been content to boast a "Horror" section, but Alexandria's Video Vault always catered to far more specialized tastes.

Embattled Japanese auto giant Toyota launched a broad counter-attack on Monday aimed at refuting research that suggests electronics may be at the heart of runaway acceleration problems that have led the automaker to recall more than 6 million vehicles.

Dana Moore sells rain. He sells a lot of it, for about a buck per reusable storm.

TALCA, CHILE -- When an aftershock nearly as big as Haiti's earthquake jolted this city on Friday, those already reeling from last month's huge quake shuddered in fear. But Jeff Genrich, a 53-year-old earthquake scientist from California, lolled in bed.

ABC returned to the televisions of Cablevision's 3 million New York area subscribers late Sunday, allowing viewers to catch most of the Academy Awards. But the companies didn't say whether they had ended their tense and bitter impasse over how much the cable operator should pay Walt Disney Co., t...

Cablevision and Walt Disney appear to be heading back to the negotiating table, hours before the Academy Awards broadcast begins and is missed by three million subscribers in the New York area.

Q: I heard what sounds like an urban legend -- that you shouldn't hit the F1 key if a Web site tells you to. Is that true?

Ten players from the local technology scene look back at the Internet boom and bust.

Baltimore-based director Matt Porterfield was overjoyed to find out that his latest film was accepted by the Berlin Film Festival. But there was one not-so-trivial problem: He didn't have any money to finish the editing and sound work.

About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers' oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken personal-finance program that didn't look and run like a 1998-vintage relic.

Herndon-based RCN announced Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a private-equity investment firm in a transaction valued at $1.2 billion.

John L. "Jack" Ahearn Jr., 85, a retired Naval Research Laboratory electrical engineer, died Feb. 25 at his home in Oxon Hill after an apparent heart attack.

Rob Pegoraro answers your questions on recent gadget reviews, technology news and provides personal tech buying and fixing advice.

Herndon-based RCN announced Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a private equity investment firm.

Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.

SAN FRANCISCO -- FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned Thursday that the cyberterrorism threat is "real and . . . rapidly expanding."

La Plata and Charles County Public Library officials are expected to sign an agreement soon to put on the fast track plans to make free wireless Internet service available in many locations.

Apple, increasingly facing tougher competition in the market for smartphones, sued the Taiwanese phonemaker HTC, accusing it of violating patents related to the iPhone.

Internet service providers are stepping up their campaign to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating them like telephone companies and questioning the limits of the agency's power over the Internet.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, which makes touchscreen smartphones using Google software, accusing it of infringing 20 hardware and software patents related to the iPhone.

Local boozers were breathing a bit easier yesterday following news reports that an audit by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department found some 80 percent of its "breathalyzer" alcohol monitors may have been giving faulty readings.

Government geeks and private-sector geeks will get a chance to rub elbows at a brand-new technology conference taking place Thursday.

Roy and John Lin made a devilish fortune in the details of phone bills, according to a federal investigation.

So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender -- and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled "Check-in here." Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using -- make that, playing -- a social-networking service called Foursquare.

Ed Nanas is a retired communications executive of a well-known Fortune 500 company that never knew about the brassiere article when it hired him because there was no Google back then.

Google Buzz is the loudest party I've ever been forced to attend. It's not because there are too many people invited but because of all the chatter. I'm following only 40 others. And even if I wanted to follow a few hundred more, my network's too small. But these 40 contacts all have their own fr...

How can we win the cyber-war?

Apple purged several sexually explicit applications from iTunes this week. Parents had complained that children were getting hold of apps such as Naughty Trivia and Sexy Scratch Off in the freewheeling online marketplace.