A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.

U.S. firms pushed online ad revenues to new heights for the fourth consecutive year.

The European Union investigates whether saving search data violates privacy laws.

Fall Professional Developers Conference cancelled due to timing concerns.

A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.

IBM is proud of Innov8, its zeitgeist-flavoured service-oriented architecture training tool. A three-dimensional virtual environment, it leads players by the pixelated hand through the sort of analysis and decisions that end up with an SOA solution to all your business-process management needs.

Pity poor EMC. With $11bn (£5.5bn) turnover and an average 10 to 11 percent profit margin it's perhaps not so poor, but you have to pity any company that's trying to get important messages out at an important time in its history (its annual conference runs in Orlando, Florida, this week), but finds its best efforts shanghaied by another company.

Orange announced a deal with Microsoft late on Monday that will see the software giant's corporate collaboration tools integrated into the communication firm's global business systems offerings.

For years now, newspapers have quietly watched Google index their headlines and offer users a synopsis of their stories without paying them a dime.

Google has invested $3.9 million in 23andMe, a biotech start-up co-founded by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday.

Arbitrage and AdSense has been an issue basically since the day Google launched AdSense. Arbitrageurs would use Google AdWords and other means to send traffic to their site, and monetize that traffic with Google AdSense. Well, it seems that those made for Adsense sites and AdSense arbitrageurs are being shut down.

Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors.

Microsoft has no plans to support OpenDocument Format in its own applications by default, despite the fact it has backed the ODF for ANSI accreditation.

An ambitious European satellite network will need more public money if it is to get off the ground on time.

In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said on Friday that it will pay $6bn (£3bn) to acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company.

Microsoft's timing seemed odd to some this week when it complained recently about alleged violations of its patents at the same time it pushed for a patent overhaul bill.

Motorola officially announced the Razr2 cell phone and five other mobile devices today,with hopes the products will turn around the company's slumping sales.

Oracle announced plans on Tuesday to buy Agile Software in a $495m cash deal, giving the software giant a foothold in the product lifecycle management business.

Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista so far, Bill Gates told a crowd of hardware developers on Tuesday.

TechCrunch is reporting that Jossip is reporting (in other words, it's still a rumor) that the web video show Wallstrip has been acquired by CBS News for $5 million.

Several individuals and companies have been prosecuted for processing credit cards for gambling sites.

Think shredding paper is a good way to hide printed information? Think again.

Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the company is pushing the OpenDocument Format standard to the detriment of Microsoft's own Open XML standard.

Vonage is close to coming up with a technical fix that could solve its patent infringement problems, chief executive Jeffrey Citron said during the company's quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday.

AMD's widespread job cuts will not affect its UK operations.

UK Online, the first ISP in the country to offer next-generation broadband speeds nationally, is boosting its focus on the small-business market.

Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday.

IBM is to launch a billion-dollar programme aimed at increasing energy efficiency in its data centres.

Ed Zander says Motorola is ready for competition from Apple's iPhone, due out next month.

While Microsoft may face some challenges taking advantage of the shift to internet advertising, it's in good company.

Carl Icahn has lost his bid to win a board seat at Motorola, according to a preliminary count of votes Monday evening.

IBM shepherding U.S. software firms into global markets, providing technical help, localization advice, other assistance.

Microsoft has agreed to acquire European mobile phone ad company ScreenTonic to try to gain a foothold in that rapidly growing market.

NBC Universal and Viacom have come out against YouTube in a legal case that could help to determine whether the video-sharing site is culpable for copyright violations committed by users.

With the shadow of Google looming over both companies, the New York Post says the software giant wants Yahoo to consider a buyout.

Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.

IBM's head of innovation called for more integration between online virtual worlds.

New Zealand-based company Michael S Sutton Ltd has filed a complaint against Nokia in the US for infringing a data-packaging technology patent and is seeking damages, court documents showed.

New Mexico plant will lay off workers when Intel stops producing flash memory chips there this summer.

LAS VEGAS--The intermingling of media-rich consumer devices and socially oriented Web services is opening up new avenues in marketing, according to Robert Bach, head of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division.

E-mail security company Proofpoint announced Monday that it has introduced Dynamic Reputation, a service for testing the validity of e-mails to weed out threats like spam, directory harvest attacks, and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Like other recently introduced e-mail security products, Dynamic Reputation assesses the reputation of an e-mail's sender, grading it to determine whether it could be classified as spam.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google responded to Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit on Monday, arguing that it has not infringed on the rights of the media company and that the lawsuit threatens the viability of its popular YouTube video-sharing Web site as well as others like it.