SAN JOSE, Calif.--Google launched a new feature on its mapping service on Tuesday that allows people to see panoramic views of streets and buildings.

The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare units and developing viruses.

Third-party products will bring VoIP functions to PlaySation in some regions this year.

Vendors complete the first live 40-Gbps optical transmission trial.

In New York City, you can go to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in midtown 24 hours a day, seven days a week and browse the Web from the Macs on display. But due to a new Apple regulation, you can no longer access MySpace.com.

The sun came out for EarthLink's Philadelphia Wi-Fi network on Thursday even as prospects for its San Francisco project remain shrouded in fog.

Suits filed against three individuals alleged to have used Hotmail to pump and dump various penny stocks.

Google search just keeps getting more popular. That's according to the latest comScore figures, which show that Google captured 49.7 percent of the U.S. search market in April. That's up 1.4 share points from the previous month.

Approval of Earthlink's test network clears the way for the company to bring Wi-Fi to all of Philadelphia.

Wi-Fi support phones would allow BlackBerry users to download e-mail over wireless networks, when available.

Motorola will not produce any next-generation Wi-Fi equipment until the 802.11n standard is properly ratified, the company revealed on Thursday.

April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

The tried-and-true Nigerian e-mail scam is still going strong in Australia, and reported losses continue to grow.

Different people associate the iRemotePC project in various ways. It is a system for remote user guidance and assistance for a support service or an easy way of remote PCs administration for network administrators and even it is a tool for web-chat, file sharing in protected mode for common users of local home networks. It is significant that iRemotePC performs virtually all actions in protected mode (SSL). Why did I referred iRemotePC to a project not a software product? The matter is that iRemotePC is closely integrated with web and works in the connection with programs launched on client. These programs are installed on the fly and do not require computer reboot.

Spammers, phishers and other Internet bottom-feeders, be warned.

Yahoo is interested in purchasing Bebo Inc. to strengthen its disappointing social networking standing, the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph has reported.

Warning: disturbing a war memorial can provoke all out cyber war--at least in Estonia. On April 27, 2007, Estonia officials relocated the "Bronze Soldier," a Soviet-era war memorial commemorating an unknown Russian who died fighting the Nazis, a move that incited rioting by ethnic Russians and the blockading of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. It also started a large and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack on several Estonian Web sites, including those of government ministries and the prime minister's Reform Party. A denial-of-service attack (DoS) occurs when someone directs a large number of requests to a target URL; the requests occur so quickly that the Web server can't respond and the site becomes inaccessible to everyone. A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) occurs when hundreds or thousands of compromised computers are enlisted. Within the last week, the intensity of the attacks diminished.

McAfee plans to unveil Tuesday an intrusion prevention system appliance aimed at protecting 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks from attacks. The McAfee IntruShield M-series appliance is expected to be available during the second half of the year.

Salesforce.com on Monday is expected to announce a way move data between different applications using its online development platform.

China's Ministry of Information Industry approved on Wednesday the use of European and American standards for 3G mobile phones, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported today.

Google now has a version of Google Apps tailored for Internet service providers and Web portals.

The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched its brand for fast Draft N Wi-Fi products, in advance of the final IEEE 802.11n standard.

Google grabbed the Web search headlines on Wednesday with splashy news that it was revamping its main page and blending results for all kinds of media indexed into one place -- not just text on Web pages, but video content, images and local map-related results. Previously, searchers had to conduct separate searches on Google's video, image and other search sites.

Google today said it is now integrating results from a variety of its search engines in an attempt to deliver as relevant and comprehensive a result set as possible.

Google is exploring ways of further integrating its e-mail and instant messaging services with its hosted productivity applications.

High-speed wireless networking equipment will be certified in June, despite the fact the standard for the technology will not be finalised for two years.

Mozilla developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in recent days, Microsoft has inadvertently confirmed Windows Server 2008 as the official name for Longhorn Server.

With the popularity of YouTube, the ubiquity of fast broadband connections and the fact that many people are watching TV programming on their computers, it's clear that online video advertising is getting hot. One of the latest companies to emerge in this space is Adap.tv, a start-up based in San Mateo, Calif., founded by Amir Ashkenazi, the co-founder of Shopping.com (which was purchased by eBay in 2005).

Colubris has revealed what it claims is the industry's first "intelligent, enterprise-class" 802.11n wireless LAN access point.

Microsoft on Sunday introduced phones, headsets and other devices that work with its software, with the intention of replacing the traditional office phone and delivering emails, instant messages and phone calls over the internet.

Intel has invested an undisclosed amount in Jajah, a voice over IP firm, and will grant the company access to its own patent portfolio.

Sun is pertnering with Ericsson to support development of Java-based server applications runing on wireless networks.

Google may be known as the Web search advertising company but Google has big plans for offering services to corporations, says Stephen Arnold, author of The Google Legacy and a Google patent scrutinizer.

The failed shareholder proposal would have stopped Google from engaging in self-censorship.

MySpace.com announced on Thursday that it will be hosting a series of so-called town hall events with many of the candidates who are vying for nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential primaries.

Yahoo will close its Yahoo Auctions service in the U.S. on June 16.

Hackers who stole 45 million customer records from the parent company of TK Maxx did so by breaking into the retail company's wireless LAN , it emerged on Monday.

Rumors late last week had it that Microsoft and Yahoo might launch a merger in order to better take on the top dog of the Internet, Google. Wall Street and Silicon Valley chewed on that bone for the better part of the day Friday, but in the end there wasn't much there after all.

RIM's BlackBerry Curve, new Nokia low-cost handsets enter the market.

Microsoft will release a revamped version of its popular online e-mail service.

Think malware will fade away with Vista? Sorry. There's about as much chance of the thriving throngs of online criminals packing up shop as there is of Microsoft doing the same.

Verizon, Geek Squad, and Peak8 gear up to support everything from computers to routers to game consoles.

Nova Media's new Globesurfer Icon 7.2 Ready lets Macs and PCs connect to the Internet via HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS cell networks worldwide.

After more than two years of overhauling its free Web e-mail service, Microsoft plans on Monday to drop the "beta" term from its Windows Live Hotmail service, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Microsoft will continue to prioritize security and ease of use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the company.

Rumor has it that T-Mobile is prepping the nationwide launch of a Wi-Fi service that would let customers use the technology to make voice calls with their cell phones. Hotspot at Home, which is currently in trials in Seattle, would expand on the carrier's current Wi-Fi network of 8,000 Internt access hotstops. T-Mobile declined to comment on the rumors, which probably means the America's fourth-largest carrier has something up its sleeve.

Yahoo is set to release late Wednesday a new Web-based version of its instant-messaging application that lets people use Yahoo Messenger on any browser and any Internet-connected computer rather than having to download it to a hard drive.

Group urges government to extend antifraud regulations to virtual communities.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg Inc., threw in the towel on Tuesday night.

VoIP provider Truphone has attacked Vodafone over its alleged refusal to connect calls to Truphone's network.

Does the world need open-source search tools? The people at Wikipedia think so.

The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has been given the green light, which will enable viewers to download their favorite programs in the near future.