MILPITAS — A federal civil rights agency sued Abercrombie & Fitch on Wednesday on behalf of an 18-year-old woman who said she applied for her first job at the company’s store at the Great Mall in Milpitas and was turned down because she wore a Muslim head scarf.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went to [...]

Hurricane Earl was upgraded to a Category 4 storm last night, but forecasters are still unsure what kind of impact the storm will have on New England.
According to the National Weather Service, Earl’s maximum sustained winds surged to 135 miles per hour yesterday as it was about 100 miles north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [...]

BILOXI, Miss. — More than a quarter of the $20 billion in Housing and Urban Development relief funds that were earmarked for Gulf Coast states after Hurricane Katrina remains unspent five years after the storm, a fact noticed by at least one congressional leader who’s eager to spend it elsewhere.
In June, U.S. Sen. Tom [...]

BOSTON – An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his hometown Friday, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace.
Aijalon Gomes was accompanied by former President Jimmy Carter, [...]

MIAMI – Hurricane Danielle strengthened into a Category 4 storm on Friday, becoming the season’s first major hurricane as it churned over the Atlantic far from land, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Danielle was located some 480 miles southeast of Bermuda and was moving northwest at 12 miles per hour (19 km per hour).
It [...]

Even as rumors about a 99-cent iTunes TV rental service swirl, Netflix is moving onto Apple’s hardware with a free application that will let its members watch television episodes and movies on the iPhone and iPod touch. On Thursday, Netflix rolled out the Netflix App for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Members with plans starting [...]

Those expecting a new version of the iPhone 4 at next month’s newly announced Apple press conference will be sorely disappointed, if history tells us anything. Even with the iPhone 4 so overwhelmingly popular that it’s still three weeks back-ordered online and hard to find in stock at retail, the same geek tech pundits who [...]

2009 and 2010 mark as revolutionary years for the IT innovator –post-liver transplant Steve Jobs’ September comeback last year, iPad’s launch last April, and for next month, another spectacular September soiree – Apple iPod Touch TV’s dashing revamp debut.
The first of September will welcome the overdue Apple iPod TV initiative by the tech trendsetter, as [...]

Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are effectively two sides of the same coin. They are highly portable in their own right, and they are well-connected, meaning the information they need to make them useful is highly portable as well. Of course e-readers and tablets are different devices – they are aimed at different markets, have [...]

Google announced Wednesday it is offering the ability to make phone calls over the Internet via its popular Gmail service.
Unlike Google’s nearly two-year-old Gmail voice and video chat, which gives users an audio and visual experience online, the new calling feature allows users to dial phone numbers. With this move, Google is competing with Skype [...]