There were no reporters present in Laurel, Miss. when a jury handed down a $131 million verdict against Ford after an Explorer rolled over, killing a young man who was on track to play baseball for the New York Mets.

Heading outside this Labor Day weekend? (Or, as we spell it in Canada, "Labour Dauy"?)

Well, enjoy - provided you aren't being hit by New Zealand earthquakes (hi, Richard!), Eastern Seaboard hurricanes, Russian forest fires, or the global outbreak of Duke Nukem fever.

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As you work to develop your product - before and after launch, it's important that you use more than just "gut feelings" to ascertain what's working and what's not.

German authorities have recently expressed skepticism about cloud computing and the potential it has for breaking data protection laws.

I recently had an urge to pick up an MMORPG again, but after checking on the profile for my favorite Everquest 2 character - clocking in at over 138 days played - it's probably best I not devote myself to the life of hardcore raiding at particular juncture.

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel - ReadWriteHack - and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans "see through walls"; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting.

Java gets a bad rap. It's considered old-school. People say that young developers prefer Ruby-on-Rails and other Web-based hot stuff.