Former Californian charged with credit-card theft (Rapid City Journal) HOT SPRINGS -- A former California man will be tried in South Dakota on charges of grand theft and attempted grand theft related to charges made on credit cards of Janet Denny of Edgemont.

Wii, Call of Duty top U.S. charts in November Nintendos Wii holds on to its spot as the No. 1 video game console in the United States in November, selling 981,000 units. Nintendos Wii held on to its spot as the No. 1 video game console in the United States in November, selling 981,000 units,...

Bamboo PC is eco-friendly and looks nice, too Asustek gives a nod to eco-minded consumers with prototype laptop encased in fast-growing bamboo. Back in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I, an early personal computer that consisted of a circuit board in a simple wooden box. Apple and other computer makers went...

Lonely Canadian shocked to get $84,000 phone bill Oil field worker, 22, downloaded movies and other high-resolution files unaware of the charges they would incur. A Canadian oil field worker, stunned to get an almost $84,000 cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to about $3,400, but is still fighting them. Piotr Staniaszek, a...

Survey: People skills valued over those for IT Microsoft-commissioned survey of execs finds ability to communicate with co-workers is regarded as more important than tech skills. Interpersonal skills are more important in the workplace than IT skills, according to the results of a survey commissioned by Microsoft. In the survey of approximately 500 board-level executives,...

Microsoft strikes back at Opera antitrust claims Software giant denies abusing its market position and says it has no intention of unbundling IE and Windows. Microsoft denied on Friday antitrust claims from Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser. Opera,...

Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse files? After retailer allegedly discovers contraband on mans PC, he asks judges to say results of search cant be used as evidence. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Pennsylvania man accused of possessing illegal images objects to...

Dropping off the grid After screwing up his travel preparations, CNET News.coms Charles Cooper goes through the electronic equivalent of cold turkey. Packing for a recent hiking vacation, I forgot my cell phone. When I realized my goof, it was too late. I was 30,000 feet over Californias Sierras and climbing. ...