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Google has announced plans to buy ITA Software, a major provider of airline travel software, for US$700 million. ...
Sony has issued a voluntary global recall of 535,000 Vaio notebook computers after reports of a defect in the devices' temperature control software was brought to its attention. The flaw can cause the notebook to overheat, sometimes to an extreme degree ...
Google will no longer redirect mainland China Internet users to its Hong Kong site at Google.com.hk. Instead, it will display a link to the uncensored Hong Kong site on itsGoogle.cn landing page ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a patent case that has held the software industry and patent attorneys in suspense for much of the last year. ...
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a memorandum that proposes the government to provide 500 MHz (megahertz) worth of additional broadband spectrum for auction -- spectrum that is now controlled by the federal government and private companies. The goal of the proposal is to provide more wireless space for the operation of mobile devices like cellphones and laptop computers...
Salesforce.com has filed a countersuit against Microsoft, alleging that the software giant infringed on five of its patents in such products as Windows Server, the .Net platform and Microsoft's Windows Live authentication system ...
After a decade of failed attempts, it looks as though the online adult entertainment industry will get its own top-level domain -- .XXX. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the decision on Friday after an independent review countered its previous refusals ...
Microsoft has introduced several changes to the design and content of its entertainment results on Bing, including ways to link searches to the content they're looking for more directly ...
Salesforce.com has made its latest product, Salesforce.com Chatter, generally available for its 77,300 customers. First unveiled as a private beta earlier this year, Chatter is a real-time social collaboration application and platform for the enterprise. It allows employees to send feeds and status updates about projects, account and clients, as well as maintain profiles.
There will be half a billion personal computers sold to U.S. consumers between now and 2015, according to Forrester Research, which includes desktops, notebooks and laptops, tablets and netbooks in the PC category ...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to carve out new rights to digital privacy for public sector workers in its 9-0 decision in City of Ontario v. Quon ...
AOL has found a buyer for its social networking site Bebo. Although the sale price is undisclosed, it is rumored that Los Angeles-based private equity fund Criterion Capital Partners snapped up the site for US$10 million. ...
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has voted 10-1 to approve a law requiring cellphone retailers and vendors to post how much radiation their devices emit. The measure calls upon stores to display the "specific absorption rates" next to the devices. ...
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and Motorola have settled their two-year-long patent dispute over smartphone technology. Under the terms of the agreement, RIM has agreed to make a one-time payment and ongoing royalties to put an end to the litigation. ...
Google users have been muddling through a design change the search engine giant sprung on them without warning on Thursday, trying to navigate how to customize the page -- or revert back to the old look -- without having to sign in. (Short answer: It appears you could not.) ...
Social game developer Zynga has introduced its latest creation -- "FrontierVille" -- on Facebook. "FrontierVille" is similar to Zynga's immensely popular "FarmVille" in that players and their networks maintain a place -- in this case, a frontier outpost. ...
China's State Council Information Office has published a whitepaper outlining its view of the Internet -- along with a reaffirmation that it intends to continue to restrict access to it. ...
Google will turn over data it collected from unsecured WiFi networks to authorities in Germany, France and Spain. ...
A group of high-tech firms, led by ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, have formed a nonprofit organization to promote the use of Linux software on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. ...
Walt Disney Co. has quietly developed an application for Facebook that marries e-commerce functionality with social marketing. Disney Tickets Together, which debuted last week, lets people pre-order tickets to the upcoming "Toy Story 3" movie directly from the application. While engaging in the purchasing process, moviegoers are asked which of their Facebook friends they wants to invite. They can also push news of ticket purchases to their Facebook wall if they want to.
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