Republican Tea Party leader arrested for computer piracy
A heavyweight for the political Tea Party movement in the south has most likely just crippled his potential political future. — 61-year-old Anthony Trinca was arrested for allegedly selling pirated ...
Catch the London Underground with Google Maps
Starting today, you can get public transport directions for London within Google Maps. One of Europe's largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers and touris...
BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 releasing today - BBM Social, and new sharing options front and center
After some whispers of a launch, RIM's instant messenging client BlackBerry Messenger has been updated to version 6.0. Since this has been in beta for awhile now, we're already well-acquainted with m...
PRs Lose Court Appeal On Online Story Copying
PRs have failed to overturn a court ruling that they should pay ongoing license fees for receiving links to and summaries of newspapers' online articles. — The UK Court of Appeal today rejected an a...
Google's Growth Unsettles Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW—Google Inc. is the single largest contributor to the coffers of Mountain View, where it is based. But as the Web giant expands its physical footprint and seeks to build new offices, hou...
New Chrome experiment: Embed your message in a music video and have the band dance it out
We here at 9to5Google love Chrome Experiments, nifty little web apps that showcase what can be achieved with HTML5 and the Chrome browser. Be it a simple project like the Google I/O countdown timer …
One Small Antitrust Victory for Google
Google Inc. is facing intense regulatory pressure around the world, with antitrust enforcers investigating its business practices in the U.S. and European Union. But it's not all bad news for the Int...
SAP Now Allows Businesses To Layer Big Data With Google Maps And Earth
Business software giant SAP is collaborating with Google to offer an updated software product in its BusinessObjects Explorer, that helps customers manage and layer large data volumes with Google Maps...
AT&T to implement data throttling in early October, just in time for iPhone 5
A new change for AT&T Wireless' Unlimited Data subscribers will soon be taking place. Rumored to be starting in the first week of October, we've heard that AT&T will start throttling the data speeds ...
Microsoft's latest Google-compete weapon: The Gmail man
Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week. But at least one enterprising atten...
Apple's $76B in cash reserves surpasses US government operating balance
New figures from the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that the government has a total operating cash balance of $73.768 billion, less than Apple's own war chest of $75.876 billion. — As noted by Ma...
Google+ Gets a Feature Update Center
In response to user feedback, Google has launched a new section of the Google+ center dedicated to Google+ feature updates. — The “What's new in Google+” section is essentially a list of release not...
STUDY: Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber
A research firm posted an IQ test on its Web site and then compiled the results from more than 100,000 users. — It found that there was no substantial difference between users of Chrome, Firefox, Sa...