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Apple showed a new version of its iLife package Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo, now taking place in San Francisco. iLife is a suite of software programs included with a new Mac, and provides tools such as iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD. The newest iLife requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

One of the 'Biggest Reasons' To Get a Mac

Verizon to cybersquatters: Can you hear me now? Verizon Communications sent a clear message this week after the telecom giant won a lawsuit against OnlineNIC, a San Francisco-based domain-registration company.

OnlineNIC, which has more than 1.18 million domains registered, had more than 663 domain names identical or similar to Verizon trademarks, the company said.

A judge in the Northern District of California found that OnlineNIC tried to take advantage of Verizon by tricking its customers into going to OnlineNIC domains and misrepresenting them as Verizon Web sites.

A few companies have sprung up recently that map an area's potential for renewable energy, but engineering company CH2M Hill is the first to map on a very detailed scale. Homeowners can use the software to find out the solar potential of their actual rooftop, not just their neighborhood.

The controversy that began when Apple announced Tuesday that it would no longer participate in MacWorld continued with the next chapter titled Silent Protest.

An angry fan, Lesa King Snider, is advocating silence during Apple Vice President Philip Schiller's keynote address at the MacWorld Conference & Expo on Jan. 6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. She is asking visitors to her silentkeynote.com Web site to send a message to Apple by refraining from applauding or whistling. She wants complete silence.

The world has been waiting for an open-source Symbian mobile operating system, but it won't have to wait much longer. The Symbian Foundation expects to have its first version ready in the first half of 2009.

The foundation is making strides and gaining more support. Symbian on Thursday announced AOL, Cell Telecom, Intrinsyc, ISB Corporation, Trusted Logic, and Xenient have added their endorsements to the 58 other companies already supporting the open-source effort.

Over the last few years, Digg has become Silicon Valley's version of the boy who cried wolf. Like the child who warned local villagers that a wolf was about to attack his flock of sheep, potential buyers of Digg have repeatedly leaked reports that the company was about to be sold, but a sale was never consummated.

Megatechtronium is pulling the plug on its microblogging social-network site that allowed users to send music, photos and messages to friends using the Pownce Web site or desktop software.

Megatechtronium, a San Francisco-based company created by Digg founder Kevin Rose along with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka in June 2007, says Pownce will disappear on Dec. 15, less than a year after its service was made available to the public.

Imagine you were offered a dream job that required you to relocate to your favorite city. Which city would it be? And why?

If you're like most Americans, you might select New York, San Diego, or San Francisco, according to a soon-to-be released survey of 2,500 employees and entrepreneurs across the nation by the Human Capital Institute, a Washington-based think tank and professional association largely made up of human resources professionals.