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Rosslyn-based ‘Pandora for Books' gets Shark Tank investment 04/21/2014 12:45pm • 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. Th Google Docs continues to evolve with add-ons 04/21/2014 11:29am • Data Doctors Tech giants compete for video-game apps 04/21/2014 03:28am • WASHINGTON -- Video games can get intense, but it turns out the real competition may be between the companies that offer the apps that let you play on your phone. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and Google have been offering game developers promotional perks in order to get games on Still using XP? 5 things you need to do 04/09/2014 07:55am • Ken Colburn, Data Doctors PHOENIX, Ariz. - Rich asks, "Now that Windows XP is officially retired, what exactly is going to happen if I keep using it?" The retiring of Windows XP is by no means anything like a Y2K scenario where your computer will suddenly stop functioning properly. No one really Former Special Ops Innovators Launch Big Data Startup 04/07/2014 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 Do Android smartphones need malware protection? 04/04/2014 03:11pm • Ken Colburn, Data Doctors PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jon asks: I keep hearing scary stories about vulnerabilities in the Android OS. Is it time to install an antivirus program on my smartphone? The answer to that question has a lot more to do with how you use your phone than which operating system you'r Wearable technology shaping healthcare 03/28/2014 01:43pm • WASHINGTON -- Wearable technology is likely to play a major role in the future of healthcare, despite the medical health care's field tendency to resist change, according to analysts. "The wearable device sensors are getting cheaper. It seems the one area they're really going to be most helpful Massive ‘Graffiti-Style’ Mural Coming to Crystal City 03/27/2014 02:30pm • Crystal City will soon be home to Arlington’s largest mural. The Crystal City Business Improvement District has commissioned a 215-foot-long, 2,500-square-foot mural to be painted on the Crystal Drive side of the vacant office building at 1851 S. Bell Street. The “graffiti-style”&n Man Arrested After Pepper Spraying GMU Law Prof 03/26/2014 04:20pm • A George Mason University law professor was pepper sprayed in his classroom today after a man tried to place him under a citizen’s arrest, according to Arlington County police. The incident happened at GMU’s Arlington campus, near Virginia Square, around 3:00 p.m. Police say the man ente SOL Grades at Drew School Falling Behind 03/25/2014 03:35pm • (Updated at 3:45 p.m.) The standardized test scores for elementary school students in the Nauck neighborhood are slipping well below the county-wide average, and some parents are fed up with the disparity. Over the past 10 years, the graded program at Drew Model Elementary School has performed at an Smart shoe insoles aims to help track patients with Alzheimer's disease 03/24/2014 06:42pm • WASHINGTON -- As doctors explore why more seniors are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, science is coming up with a way to help counteract a major problem related to the disease -- wandering -- with GPS technology. So far, the problem hasn't been about applying GPS technology to finding patient Mozart and malbec: Vineyard pairs wine with music 03/24/2014 05:12pm • WASHINGTON -- The tasting room at Stephen and Shannon Mackey's Loudoun County vineyard is every bit as quaint and cozy as one would expect to find at a local family-run winery. There is a spacious bar for those coming to sample the vineyard's varieties, rocking chairs by a large window overlookin Microsoft Office coming to iPad this week 03/24/2014 09:45am • WASHINGTON -- Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once pretended to stomp on an iPhone, and vowed his children would never use Apple products. This week, Microsoft is expected to announce its Office productivity software will be available on iPad. "I think it's important for Microsoft to put Of How Google+ Local will increase your business exposure 03/21/2014 08:39am • Data Doctors 10 things to know for Friday 03/21/2014 03:43am • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. US, EU RATCHET UP SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA The aim is to punish Putin for annexing the Crimean Peninsula and head off any further Russian military inroads into Ukr