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Google: balloons will provide WiFi to the world 03/09/2014 03:31am • WASHINGTON --It sounds like something out of science fiction, or even The Wizard of Oz, but Google hopes a new balloon will soon bring Internet to developing countries for the first time. Google describes Project Loon as "loon for all," and "a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, Forest Glen Residents Fight for Permit Parking 03/04/2014 05:35pm • Forest Glen, an 84-home civic association between Glencarlyn and Columbia Heights West, is preparing to submit a request to the county to establish a permit parking zone in their neighborhood. The neighborhood, one of the smallest in the county, spans from Glencarlyn Park to 7th Road S. and Tyriol H Former McDonnell Appointee Launches Fitness Tech Startup 03/03/2014 12:00pm • Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Me Hands-free iTunes in car gets test drive 03/03/2014 09:30am • WASHINGTON -- Enjoying music-to-go will soon get a bit safer for iPhone users as Apple is test-driving its hands-free CarPlay system in a small number of luxury cars. With CarPlay, drivers will be able to access their iTunes library, including music, podcasts, audiobooks and iTunes Radio. Use Home Show and Garden Expo Returns Next Week 02/28/2014 03:30pm • The Arlington Home Show and Garden Expo is back for 2014 on Saturday, March 8. The annual event allows homeowners, builders, landscapers and others with interest to see the trends in home and yard improvement over the last year. The show is free to the public and runs from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at APS Budget Funds Enrollment Increase, New Initiatives 02/27/2014 06:55pm • (Updated at 7:50 p.m.) The proposed FY 2015 Arlington Public Schools budget funds an increase in enrollment without increasing class sizes, but includes cuts to alternative high school programs. The $539.4 million budget also provides a cost-of-living salary increase for APS teachers, launches a new Suspects Steal Scooter From Victim In Chevy Chase Crosswalk 02/27/2014 01:30pm • Police say a pair of suspects robbed a victim of a scooter while the victim was crossing Friendship Boulevard on Thursday morning in Chevy Chase. Police were called to the incident at about 9:10 a.m., according to Officer Janelle Smith, a Montgomery County Police spokesperson. The victim was crossi Quantum leap toward future of computing 02/26/2014 12:19pm • WASHINGTON -- Is Washington ready for quantum computing? Executives with D-Wave - a Canadian company that says its groundbreaking, controversial computer is 100,000 times faster than today's devices - are meeting behind closed doors in and around the nation's capital. "Quantum computers are a c Annapolis police chief relies on urban myth to argue against pot bills 02/26/2014 12:11pm • WASHINGTON - Annapolis' police chief relied on a satirical news story for the basis of his testimony against legalizing marijuana at the Maryland Capitol Tuesday. Chief Michael Pristoop told lawmakers during a hearing that a number of people died from marijuana overdoses the first day Colorado's p Leidos confirms D.C. United sponsorship 02/24/2014 08:00am • Leidos Holdings Inc. confirmed Monday what may be its boldest move yet to make a name for itself: As exclusive jersey sponsor for D.C. United. The Reston-based company's position as official sponsor of the Major League Soccer team, first reported last week by the Washington Post, is a big deal. It e County Seeking to Acquire Ballston Park Apartments 02/21/2014 05:15pm • Arlington County, via a complicated real estate transaction, is seeking to acquire the sprawling Ballston Park apartments on the 300 block of N. Glebe Road. The 20-acre, 52-building complex has 513 apartments, 233 of which are committed affordable to those making 60 percent or less of the area Postal Service Reverses Course On White Flint Post Office Move 02/21/2014 01:10pm • Turns out the U.S. Postal Service won’t be moving its White Flint Mall post office to Edson Lane. The Postal Service announced the move to 5420 Edson Lane in January. But on Friday, USPS real estate specialist Rick Hancock said that site “was not economically viable.” Now $19 billion for WhatsApp? Not so crazy 02/20/2014 09:54pm • WASHINGTON - When Facebook offered to pay a sum that could end up totaling $19 billion - yes, with a "b" - for WhatsApp, it seemed an eye-popping amount of money. But Amir Efrati, senior reporter for TheInformation.com, tells WTOP it wasn't such an unbelievable price - in fact, someone else was o Maryland bill would keep student information private 02/20/2014 01:55pm • WASHINGTON -- You're a public school student compiling a sports-related book report. To conduct research, you use digital platforms provided to you through an agreement with the school system and an outside vendor. "You could be writing articles about your baseball card collection, you could be Cheap, close drinks in a blink with happy hour app CLiNK 02/19/2014 12:04pm • You could call CLiNK happy hour on-demand: an app that allows D.C.-area users to find happy hour spots in an instant. The brainchild of David McWhorter, a homeland security consultant, CLiNK was created after McWhorter felt there was a lack of options for local happy hour information. CLiNK was firs