This tiny village of 37 gray homes and farm buildings clustered along the main road in a wind-swept corner of rural eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution.
Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from El Salvador to Japan to South Africa have flocked here in the past year to learn how Feldheim, a village of just 145 people, is already putting into practice Germany's vision of a future powered entirely by renewable energy.

In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history — how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago.
"I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, 'I've got a name: Apple Computer.' We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn't think of anything better."

Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.
"It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital," Creative Strategies president and principal analyst Tim Bajarin told Agence France Presse.

The New York Times accidentally flooded email inboxes on Wednesday when a message destined for a few readers who had canceled their subscriptions ended up going out to millions.
The newspaper said the email inviting Times readers to renew their current subscription "at an exclusive rate of 50 percent off for 16 weeks" had ended up reaching 8.6 million readers by mistake.

U.S. intelligence analysis firm Stratfor has warned its members whose emails and credit card information were hacked that they could be targeted a second time for speaking out on behalf of the company.
Online "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed Sunday via Twitter that it had stolen a trove of emails and credit card information from Stratfor's member subscribers, pledging to carry out additional attacks.

British operator Vodafone and French Orange will have their mobile telephony licenses prolonged for a year in Romania for 6.4 million euros each, the government said on Wednesday.
"The government has decided to prolong for a year (until the end of 2012) the license of the mobile operators. Each company will have to pay a tax of 6.4 million euros", the government said in a press release.

The New York Times Co. said Tuesday it has agreed to sell 16 regional U.S. newspapers to a Florida-based company for $143 million in cash.
The papers being sold to Halifax Media Holdings include five Florida-based papers, three California-based papers, three North Carolina-based papers, two Alabama-based papers, two Louisiana-based papers and one in South Carolina.

A former blogger for a U.S. mobile phone news site is being sued by his erstwhile employer over ownership of his Twitter feed in asocial media test case for the Internet age.
Noah Kravitz, of Oakland, California, worked as a product reviewer and video blogger for South Carolina-based PhoneDog from 2006 to 2010, according to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for Northern California.

Italy's anti-trust authority said Tuesday it was imposing a 900,000-euro ($1.2-million) fine on U.S. tech giant Apple for misleading consumers on assistance services and guarantees for its products.
"Sanctions of a total of 900,000 euros have been imposed on the Apple group after it was found responsible for bad commercial practices that harmed consumers," the agency said in a statement.

Serbia's staunchly traditional Orthodox Church Tuesday announced the launch of a free mobile app allowing the faithful to access prayer books on their phones.
IPhone and Android phone users will be able to download them from the website www.spc.rs. The program was developed with Russian programmers and Russian religious website www.pravoslavie.ru, it added.
