In the realm of quarterly filings, David Blaszkowsky takes the long view. He's quick to mention that the earliest form of record keeping was on tablets in the ancient Middle Eastern civilization of Sumer. Now, he says, the financial world is about to discover yet a new way.

At the end of the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas this month, James Finch, head of the FBI's Cyber Division, sat down for an interview about crime and the Internet. About 4,000 people gathered at the annual convention to hear about research on the latest network and computer or...

Staff writer Thomas Heath's Value Added column appears Tuesdays on the WashBiz Blog. Most weeks, it profiles local entrepreneurs, discussing how they make money and what they do with it.

TechPost, which looks at people and ideas driving the local technology industry, runs Friday on the WashBiz Blog, at washingtonpost.com/washbizblog.

For years, Science Applications International Corp. served as an adviser to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the development of rules for when radioactive materials could be released from nuclear facilities for recycling.

We are at T minus six months. This is it, folks. The nation has done what it can do to prepare for The Transition. The government has allocated approximately $1.5 billion in coupons to ease America's fear and suffering. Sen. Hillary Clinton sent a letter to President Bush imploring him to see the...

Q My digital TV can get four WETA channels but not the one with the schedule I'm used to seeing on Channel 26. Where did that go?

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple's iPhone and attracts 40,000 new...

Imagine a virtual health clinic: Your lung doctor and heart specialist can pull up your online medical profile and chat, via instant messenger, about your medications. You schedule checkups online, create a wellness journal or even rate your general practitioner.

Sirius XM Radio struck an "ugly" debt deal to close the merger of the only two U.S. satellite radio operators, chief executive Mel Karmazin said.

BEIJING, Aug. 15 -- The International Olympic Committee will not publish the air-quality data it receives during the Summer Games after reaching an agreement with Chinese authorities.

Jeanne Bobofchak, 31, was looking for a real estate agent, but she wanted to avoid the awkwardness of choosing among her friends' recommendations. So she went online and found agent Bob Carney's blog, FocusOnFrederick.com.

LOS ANGELES -- Here's a mind-bending idea: The U.S. military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts. The hope is that the research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in...

Wired's Gadget Lab bloggers, Jose Fermoso and Charlie Sorrel will be online to take your questions about must-have campus technology -- what to buy, what to avoid and how to stay plugged-in while you're at school.

A couple of months ago, my friend was walking down the street when a raggedly dressed man coming toward her stopped, circled around and tapped her on the shoulder.

NASA's ability to send its astronauts to the $100 billion international space station is in danger of becoming a costly casualty of the Russia-Georgia war.

GeoEye's dreams have long been anchored high in the sky, with plans to launch next month a $500 million satellite powerful enough to snap a picture of home plate at Nationals Park from 423 miles above the planet.

Six Washington area jurisdictions made it onto a list of "top digital" counties, according to a nationwide study.

Cheap, lightweight laptops have quietly gotten better over the past year.

As the violence unfolded between Russia and Georgia during the past week, hackers waged war on another front: the Internet.