Nasdaq 5,000: Ten years after the dot-com peak
Exactly 10 years ago, during the height of the dot-com mania, the Nasdaq reached its all-time high of 5,408.62 on March 10, 2000. It has never recovered.

Turning smartphones into air quality monitors
Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.

Why the explosion of social games excites veteran developers
When games like Farmville have 83 million users, designers who are used to working on games that took years to build have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook games.

SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin
The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.