Car buyers more satisfied with Asian, European vehicles A recent survey shows American cars are losing ground to Asian and European rivals when it comes to customer satisfaction. Lexus and BMW are tied for first place. 8/19/2008 2:17:09 PM

# New Web Site Aims to Be Facebook for Sports Fans David Katz is heading into a Web site battle against Internet sports powerhouses like the ones run by ESPN, Yahoo, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball and AOL. 8/19/2008 5:35:10 AM

Has the iPhone 3G Been Fixed? The brand-new radio chip in the Apple iPhone 3G has been causing the company a bit of indigestion in recent weeks as customers complain about dropped phone calls and intermittent connections to the highly touted 3G network. 8/19/2008 5:32:30 AM

Analog TV shutdown kills free cellphone TV Picture whipping out your cellphone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. -- at least not without monthly charges. 8/18/2008 7:10:31 PM

New minor planet helps explain comets A newly discovered "minor planet" with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, researchers said on Monday. The icy lump of rock is just over 2 billion miles from Earth, a bit closer than the planet Neptune. 8/18/2008 6:45:12 PM

Dogs sniff out inmates' phones Chante Wright was set to testify against a career criminal when she was gunned down on the streets of Philadelphia in January. Investigators believe it was a hit ordered from prison, by an inmate using a cell phone. Cell phones have become the hottest contraband in prisons. 8/18/2008 6:51:28 PM

B.C. hockey player sentenced in video porn case The second suspect in the sex videotape case involving two former members of a B.C. hockey team will serve a three-year conditional discharge, identical to his co-accused. Bradley Harding and his teammate Harrison Zolnierczyk (pictured) conspired to videotape a sexual encounter. 8/18/2008 5:38:36 PM

B.C. pair helped victims of Great Wall lightning strike They went to China to see a total solar eclipse and check out the Olympics -- but it was a lightning strike on the Great Wall that left a B.C. couple with some electrifying memories. 8/18/2008 9:49:49 AM

Military drone supplier handed critical wartime duties Employees of a British Columbia firm supplying surveillance drones for the military in Afghanistan will be playing a greater role than first thought in the operations of the system as they pilot the aircraft during takeoffs and landings from Kandahar. 8/18/2008 8:59:54 AM

Critics waging a cyber offensive to fight copyright changes They're using everything from Facebook to YouTube to Wikipedia to blogs to get their message out, hoping the federal government will either scrap or amend Bill C-61 when Parliament resumes next month. 8/18/2008 6:16:10 AM

Sasquatch evidence 'compelling,' says academic When news broke Friday that two self-proclaimed sasquatch trackers in the state of Georgia claimed to have one of the fabled ape creatures in their freezer, Jeff Meldrum was quickly pulled into the story. After all, he's one of the few PhDs conducting field work on Bigfoot and reporters were quick to search him out for comment. 8/18/2008 5:47:28 AM

China’s iron Olympic grip starts to slip The mystery of the half-filled stands at many events at the 2008 Olympic Games has been solved, according to Chinese internet users, who say it is the result of a policy to prevent the gathering of large and possibly uncontrollable crowds. 8/18/2008 5:29:24 AM

In search of the unstealable bicycle On June 26, John Millen learned how difficult it is to keep a bicycle safe from Toronto thieves. That was the day he took his custom bike up the elevator to the fourth floor of his Front Street E. office. 8/17/2008 9:56:56 AM

Iran 'fires satellite into space' Iran has launched its first domestically-manufactured satellite into orbit, reports say. An Iranian news network, IRINN, showed footage of what it said was a communications satellite named Safir-e Omid (Hope Envoy) being launched. 8/17/2008 9:23:43 AM

Shapeways lets Internet users manufacture goods In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film "Iron Man," a firm in the Netherlands is letting people fabricate items designed in three-dimensions on the Internet. 8/17/2008 9:22:11 AM

'Invisibility' technology may help view tiny objects New technology that could someday make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality, may have more immediate, and important applications: the ability to see and communicate better. 8/17/2008 8:38:11 AM

Olympic visitors ripped off in internet scam When Canada's water polo team qualified for the Olympics last February, Kalee Harris and Angela Johnson knew instantly they were Beijing-bound. The two Greater Vancouver pals are close friends with members of the Canadian squad. 8/17/2008 6:20:10 AM

Water's the limit for tall trees Douglas firs, one of the tallest tree species, are unlikely to surpass 138m (453ft) in height, a study suggests. A team of US researchers found that there was a limit on how high the giant trees were able to pull water up their trunks to supply upper branches. 8/16/2008 9:33:23 AM