Broadband powerline service gains backers | CNET News.com: “Current and Cinergy plan to focus on price and convenience as they compete against current DSL and cable services. The companies plan to sell the service for about $30 to $40 a…

Google Recruits For Expanding Southern California Offices —- Google (www.google.com) is aggressively recruiting for spots in its Southern California offices, where 200 prospective recruits were wined and dined last week, in a throwback to the go-go years of the dot-com…

Diller Buys ZeroDegrees —- InterActive Corp. has agreed to buy Santa Monica-based ZeroDegrees (www.zerodegrees.com), according to Reuters. InterActive, Barry Diller’s conglomerate, did not disclose terms for the company. InterActive also owns TicketMaster, LendingTree.com, Match.com, and other sites. ZeroDegrees launched in…

VeriSign sues ICANN to restore Site Finder | CNET News.com — I was at Overture when they developed this functionality for VeriSign (though wasn’t directly involved). Both companies saw significant revenue potential given the number of failed consumer domain requests……

USATODAY.com – Toymakers high-five tech to drive sales: “Warner Bros. and Mattel, for instance, are teaming on a Batwave line of Batman toys programmed with features activated by ‘video-encoded invisible light’ to be encrypted in this fall’s new The Batman…

Yahoo! News – Greenspan Urges Social Security Cuts: “WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve (news – web sites) Chairman Alan Greenspan (news – web sites) urged Congress on Wednesday to deal with the country’s escalating budget deficit by cutting benefits for future…

The Blog Herald: More blog news more often: “NTT Data’s Blog Service to Feature GPS Location Data Japanese telco NTT Data has announced that it will launch a new form of its free blog service, Doblog, for users of GPS-enabled…

Danger to unveil prototype device | CNET News.com Hiptop is Danger’s reference design for a combination cell phone and Web-browsing handheld device. — I’d almost forgotten that Danger is predominantly focused on the backend and is building devices from a…

The truth about offshoring | CNET News.com: “It is true that America has lost jobs in the last three years, and the technology sector has been harder-hit than many others. But the job loss has not been as huge as…

Fed Officials Say Jobs on Way Eventually A chorus of Federal Reserve officials tried on Friday to reassure Americans that new jobs will emerge to replace the millions of jobs lost in recent years, but warned workers must add skills…