Russia is making it harder to register .ru domains, in a bid to crack down on inappropriate content.

Curious about the options out there for protecting your new iPad? Here's a look at some of the bags and cases on the way

DENVER, CO (MARKET WIRE) Venoco, Inc. (NYSE: VQ) announced that Mike Edwards, Vice President - Investor Relations, will be speaking at the Barclays High Yield Bond and Syndicated Loan Conference on Thursday, March 25, 2010 beginning at 6:35 PM Eastern Time.

The oceanic fight over the future of prized bluefin tuna

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Madison Pacific Properties Inc. (TSX: MPC) ("Madison"), a Vancouver-based real estate company, announces that is has acquired approximately 94.1% of the equity of Metro Vancouver Properties Inc. (formerly MIGENIX Inc.) ("Metro Vancouver").

Lawmakers have reintroduced bipartisan cybersecurity legislation to the Senate, stripping out controversial provisions that alarmed privacy advocates and civil libertarians.

The PC giant files suit against six LCD makers for forming a 'cartel' that Dell claimed artificially inflated prices costing the company millions of dollars.

I placed two electronics orders this week, one with Crutchfield and one with Amazon.

The Crutchfield order was fraught with difficulty. They asked for some info that Amazon never asked for, and the credit card company gave them trouble. It looked like the order, a TV and soundbar-with-woofer, would be delayed. I said so on Twitter. Even though the TV was a very interesting and totally new product from Sony, and very reasonably priced. Further, Amazon was only taking pre-orders, Crutchfield had it in stock.

At the same time the order I placed on Amazon went through with out a hitch. I praised them on Twitter, and said Crutchfield should try to be more like Amazon.

Heh.

The Crutchfield order, which was far more complex (a 46-inch TV) but not much more expensive than the Amazon one, is complete. And unusually, the Amazon order is lost in UPS hell. It's been "out for delivery" for almost 48 hours. After I paid for 1-day turnaround the best they can offer is they'll refund the $3.99 I paid (how generous of them, he said sarcastically) and say I should wait until the 22nd. Geez if I wanted it that slow I wouldn't have bought it from Amazon.

Sometimes I wonder if they look at their records to see how much I spend with them. It's guys like me that keep them flying First Class instead of coach. Couldn't they arrange a Saturday delivery? Couldn't they call UPS and find out what they did with my delivery?

BTW, I ordered the Fujitsu scanner I wrote up here. It was a total impulse buy. A product I'm paying to review. Nothing more aggravating than an impulse buy that turns into a support issue.

Lawmakers have reintroduced bipartisan cybersecurity legislation to the Senate, stripping out controversial provisions that alarmed privacy advocates and civil libertarians.

The PC giant files suit against six LCD makers for forming a 'cartel' that Dell claimed artificially inflated prices costing the company millions of dollars.

SEDALIA, MO (MARKET WIRE) Memory Book Company, a respected and experienced yearbook publisher, is pleased to announce My Story Covers. This innovative option features new yearbook covers that are personalized for each student with their very own picture. Or they can add text including their name and icons to any standard cover. Elementary, middle and high schools that want unique yearbook covers for their students can begin offering this option to students and parents for 2010-2011 yearbook orders.

Apachelogger's Log: "This post is supposed to make it clear why Kubuntu is what it is. Writing this down is necessary because people constantly get the wrong picture."

After packing more than a million sandbags and building miles of temporary dikes to hold back the surging Red River, Fargo got lucky on Friday with sudden drop in temperature.

AP - An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, health officials say.

DENVER, CO (MARKET WIRE) DCA Total Return Fund (NYSE: DCA) and DCW Total Return Fund (NYSE: DCW) each announced today the declaration of a quarterly dividend per share as set forth in the table below:

LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour party will make the creation of a People's Bank the centrepiece of its election pledges, the minister drafting the manifesto said in a newspaper interview.

This evening I saw a father and a small boy stopped on stairs leading down to the Chambers Street station in lower Manhattan. The boy was saying he didn't want to go down the stairs. The father was conceding. The boy was scared. Something about going down the stairs freaked him out.

I've seen it before, people frozen as they're about to get on an escalator going down. It's perfectly safe. I do it without thinking. I have no fear. I've even stopped to listen, and offered that there was an elevator to take. Once told of the opportunity, they always go that route.

Something like this happens to me when I have to climb down a ladder from some height. I don't have any trouble going up, it's going down that spooks me. It happened at a rooftop New Years Eve party in San Francisco, the big one on December 31, 1999. After the celebration was over, everyone went down, climbed down the ladder we had gone up, but I just couldn't do it. I stayed up there for an hour, made a bunch of approaches. People below said it's no big deal. I wished they would just go away, and let me do this myself. Finally when they gave up, I slowly put myself over the edge and climbed down, uneventfully. What choice did I have? Believe me, if I had had one, I would have taken it.

No moral of the story. You can't explain irrational fears to people who don't have them, and you can't reason with them either. If you have no choice, eventually you take the leap. If only there was an elevator...