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Apple Inc. is suing cell phone maker Nokia Corp. for patent infringement, a countermove to Nokia's earlier suit against technologies used in Apple's iPhone.
Americans reached into their pockets — though not as deep as last year — to spend $2.7 billion on video games in November, according to figures reported Thursday by market researcher NPD Group.
Yahoo is including more Twitter messages in its search results to give people a better sense about what's happening on the Web.
Shares of Ciena Corp. tumbled 11 percent Thursday after the computer networking equipment maker posted a wider-than-expected loss for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter and full year as costs offset strong revenue results.
Federal regulators receive tens of thousands of customer complaints about wireless services every year, but don't do enough to follow up or protect consumers who have problems with their mobile carriers, government auditors found.
Like any good celebrity scandal, the Tiger Woods drama has triggered a spike in traffic to Web sites offering details of his Thanksgiving weekend car crash and his alleged extramarital affairs. The lift will likely be fleeting, though, as the shock of the story wears off.
The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday — reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers will stick around despite the smaller Internet audience.
The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are e-book readers still such clumsy, annoying devices?
The European Union's top antitrust official said Wednesday she was "still optimistic" that regulators could resolve a bitter dispute over an EU investigation into Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.
IPhone users who jam the airwaves by watching video on their devices will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T; Inc. executive said Wednesday.
AT&T; Inc. is boosting its top available broadband speeds in Austin, Texas, San Antonio and St. Louis in preparation for a wider rollout.
Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages.
Internet search leader Google Inc. is teaming up with The New York Times and The Washington Post in its latest attempt to help out the ailing newspaper industry.
MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million.
The chief executive of Time Warner Cable Inc. offers this warning to Comcast Corp. on its purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal: Mixing content and distribution is harder to accomplish than it looks.
Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are teaming up to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own technology that would display in color and work on a variety of devices.
The Associated Press is inviting Facebook users to vote on the 10 top news stories of the year, marking the first time the public has been invited to weigh in since the news cooperative began its annual survey in 1936.
Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired users.
Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's happening on the Web.
A new online tool from Yahoo Inc. will let users see and edit the personal profiles that the Internet company compiles about them to target Internet advertising.
AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company Thursday as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history.
Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
Microsoft Corp. may accelerate up to $150 million in reimbursements due Yahoo Inc. if their proposed Internet search partnership is approved by regulators.
Google said late Tuesday that it would allow publishers of paid content to limit the number of free articles accessed through its Internet search engine, a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry trying to find ways to get users to pay for content .
Spokesman Scott Rubin would not elaborate on how the image ended up as the number-one result for the first lady.
Yesterday a U.S. Federal judge ruled that Google must turn over the name of an anonymous blogger who took a severe disliking to aging supermodel Liskula Cohen.
A newly qualified bus driver is facing the sack after it emerged that she is a well known porn star. Audrey, 24 and the reigning 'Miss Nude Belgium 2009', passed all her driving tests following a six week intensive course in the city of Liege last month.
Canadian freelance photographer Ryan Pyle lost thousands of digital photos when Digital Railroad abruptly shut down last October. The online storage service posted a note to its Web site (text of note) stating that it ran out of money and would have to close.
But is Google that important to today's Internet? Well, a quick look at this graph from the Web security company Arbor Networks shows a canyon-sized hole in North American Internet traffic during the G-outage.
A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. More Articles
With the recently announced cancellation of the UK Business Continuity Expo 2009 by Reed Exhibitions, it is clear that service providers expect businesses to scale back their budgets for disaster recovery and business continuity provision.
The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes. More Articles
A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions. More Articles
The other day by curiosity I decided to use one of the Background Check/Phone Verification and people search websites. After signing up, I found out that for .99 cents, I was not only able to see my own information but also information of relatives of mine; including their telep …
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Scientists, however, said the combination is not as rare as people might think.
For the foreign press it's all Obama all the time.
Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation into allegations that the activist cheated on his taxes and extorted contributions from corporations in exchange for not protesting against them.
NEW YORK - An Iranian photograph showing a cluster of missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth missile lifting off from a desert range, a defense analyst said Thursday.
How many lives, structures and businesses could have been saved? Scientists from the Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE) are trying to answer in order to prepare local, regional and federal governments for a destructive earthquake that will hit the Midwest sooner or later.
Free Web site for individual investors who want to know how their mutual or pension funds vote on social and governance issues when it comes to companies in their portfolios —everything from animal-welfare policies to the makeup of boards. ProxyDemocracy.org
Puerto Rico traditionally complains of being ignored by the rest of the United States, but that has just changed, if only for the moment.
The new single off their latest album featuring a long list of internet clips and personalities including Chris Crocker, Tay Zonday, Numa Numa Guy, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, the list goes on and on. A must see! Can you count all the memes?
South Asia's nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan resumed peace talks May 20 amid reminders of how vulnerable the two nations are to terrorism.