OK, so the Japanese threw a party and many of the guests didn't show up. That doesn't mean there weren't some tasty morsels served up at the Tokyo Motor Show.

  Elizabeth Nill, 61, had a dream of becoming a president of a community college when she went to Harvard Business School in the late 1970s. But even though colleagues told her she didn’t have the temperament for such a job, she spent years pursuing her dream.

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown.

  CHURCH volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.

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  Personal computers are changing — and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment with new ways of controlling some computers. And you'll see portable PCs slimming down.

  Bill Gurley analyzes the week's news about Google's free turn-by-turn map application on Android phones. Back-story as well as what happened to the stock of the two mapping titans on Thursday. Major disruption from Google. Again.

  Adobe has set up its "Adobe Opens Up" website to promote the use of Adobe technologies to achieve the goal of "opening up Washington," as well as highlighting ways in which federal, state, and local governments have implemented these technologies.

  Scientists have discovered how to "read" minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.

  The government has opened the data flood gates and said "geeks, come on in!" at an event called GovHack, held last weekend in Canberra.

  So you like your docks on XP/Vista and Mac OS? Well, as usually, Linux has their own that allows for a large amount of fine-tuning. Gnome Do (http://do.davebsd.com/) is first and foremost a launcher application for Linux.

  The founders of The Pirate Bay could face fines in Sweden if the popular torrent tracker remains online. A court has banned them from continuing to operate the site at the risk of hefty daily fines.

  A town that only exists in Google Maps

  As is stands right now, the trucking industry is not particularly green--just ask anyone who has been stuck in traffic behind a gas-guzzling, exhaust-belching 18-wheeler. But if the industry is to survive in the next decade, it will have to go through some major changes.