Last week, in an essay criticizing Adobe’s Flash platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs drew attention to, among other things, its lack of support for touch–something essential to the experience of an iPhone or iPad. “Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using...

The Internet The Internet’s been around in some form for decades. It wasn’t until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together — and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up. As we finish out the tech-centric year of 2008, we thought we’d...

An Israeli professor and his students have launched a Web site to promote the teachings of the Quran. A new Web site launched by an Israeli university professor and his Bedouin students aims to address life’s everyday quandaries from the perspective of an ancient sacred text: the Quran. Organizers of...