Back in May Zinio released a Web-based iPhone magazine reader which allows you to view complete magazines for free. To access it, simply navigate to www.zinio.com/iphone from your iPhone and you ll get free access to a number of popular magazine titles including: US News Playboy Men s Health Macworld Car and Driver Penthouse ELLE Viv PC Magazine Kiplingers Esquire Technology Review Popular Photography Surprisingly, the Web app still works and it s still free. On their site Zinio charges US$5 for a single issue and you can preview the first 20 pages for free. If you want to try it without an iPhone you need to change the user-agent on your browser. iSmashPhone provides links to simple instructions on doing this in...

Companies, organizations and citizens spend billions of dollars a year on licensing fees for proprietary software. Could that money not be put to better use developing free software alternatives and local expertise?

I m not naive. I know life isn t always fair and justice isn t truly blind. Yet Eliot Spitzer getting off scot-free and US Attorney Michael J. Garcia saying, "We have determined that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges against Mr...

The new, free consumer security software is focused on core anti-malware protection.

A man who had been behind bars for three years for allegedly choking his girlfriend to death was set free yesterday after prosecutors said his "victim" might not have been murdered after all. "Smells like freedom!" a jubilant Jamel Gauthier said...

The Free Software Foundation s latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win for the Wikipedia project and others, and the FSF demonstrates The problem? Many wikis publish content under the CC license, while Wikipedia uses GFDL. Of course, the licenses were incompatible, which caused a bit of a headache for the Wikipedia project, as Benjamin Mako Hill describes: There are many reasons for this change but the most important is that the move reduces very real barriers to collaboration between wikis and...

Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein spoke with A.J. Burnett s agent by phone Tuesday to express the team s interest in the free-agent right-hander, a baseball source said.

Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security software suite and will discontinue its OneCare service.

The Blue Jays will not be raising their quota of Canadian players with the signing of free-agent pitcher Ryan Dempster, who is staying with the Chicago Cubs for the foreseeable future.

Companies, organizations and citizens spend billions of dollars a year on licensing fees for proprietary software. Could that money not be put to better use developing free software alternatives and local expertise?

Where the top free agents may be going now that the market is open.

Another Cheaper by the Dozen with Kevin VanOrd introduces us to the wonderful world of free action games.

Yankees tendered a six-year offer Friday to free agent pitcher CC Sabathia with a total contract value that was slightly more than the $137.5 million deal Johan Santana signed with the Mets before last season.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States wants to increase the number of countries enjoying visa-free entry after opening the door to citizens from six new European Union countries and South Korea, U.S. officials said Friday.

US President Bush admits the financial system needs reform but insists the credit crisis was not a failure of the free-market.

Randy Johnson has filed for free agency after failing to reach a deal to return to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Manny Ramirez, Mark Teixeira and Ben Sheets wasted no time in filing for free agency. The trio were among 65 players who filed on the first possible day. Thursday began a 15-day window in which approximately 180 players can become free agents.

My best guesses on where all this winter s major free agents will sign.

This free MP3 pack contains five remixes of "Still Alive" from the game Mirror s Edge by Paul Van Dyk, Benny Benassi, Junkie CL, Teddybears, and Armand Van Helden.

Pitcher A.J. Burnett ended months of speculation Tuesday when he told the Toronto Blue Jays, through his agent, he is opting out of the final two years of his five-year contract to become a free agent.