Microsoft Releases Updated Live Search Engine
Includes significant advancements in core technology and consumer experience. — Microsoft Corp. is releasing an update to Live Search (http://www.live.com) centered on improvements to core search te...
Google Buys Zingku, Mobile Social Network
Google's plans to extend in the mobile space could include the launch of a mobile phone. For now, Google bought another mobile social network: Zingku. "We've entered into an agreement to have Google...
A Cellphone Without Borders
It's amazing the way the Internet keeps toppling traditional businesses. Telegrams have gone away. Music CD sales are tanking. Newspapers are hurting. — One especially lucrative business, however...
Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair
A silent update that Microsoft deployed widely in July and August is preventing the "repair" feature of Windows XP from completing successfully. — Ever since the Redmond company's recent download of...
LinkedIn finally adds user photos
On Friday, the social network for professionals, LinkedIn, will go live with its newest feature: User photos. — Why did it take four years to add a feature already offered by every other social netw...
Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore Tells How He Broke Into Routers And Stole VoIP Services
On his way to federal prison, the 23-year-old hacker says breaking into computers at telecom companies and major corporations was "so easy a caveman could do it."
Sprint says it won't subsidize WiMax hardware
Recommend article: — Chicago (IL) - Barry West, president of Sprint's Wimax unit "Xohm", said that Wimax customers will have to pay "full freight" for their Wimax cards, but will not be locked in lo...
GWT Application Development for the iPhone
In our not-so-humble opinions, we think that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and the Apple iPhone are two very cool technologies. Because we're all highfalutin computer-scientist types (as well as being...
An Antitrust Analysis of GOOG-DCLK Deal: Search Ads Vs Contextual Ads Vs Display Ads
A research paper from the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, which builds the case that Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) buyout of DoubleClick may exceed the limit in terms of concentration of po...
The End User: Apple and Orange
PARIS: The biggest annual gathering of Mac fans on the planet - the Apple Expo - opened in Paris on Tuesday. But even though organizers expect 70,000 people to attend over the course of the week, the...
Google Birthday Logo: Nine Years Old
The Google home page is sporting the special logo above, celebrating the company's ninth birthday, with one of the Gs turned into a nine. But wait? Didn't Google just turn 10? Google Is 10 Years Ol...
Halo 3 sales top £84m in 24 hours
Video game Halo 3 earned more than £84m ($170m) in sales in its first 24 hours on release, according to Microsoft. — The game sets the record for the most money earned in a day by an entertainment p...