January 30, 2009 / Stephen Shankland
Google has added a patch to its latest beta and stable versions of Chrome to make the browser work better with Microsoft's Hotmail site.
January 30, 2009 / Caroline McCarthy
It's sort of cute, really: blogger Robert Scoble went on a nice snowy stroll with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. Of course,
he wrote about it.
January 29, 2009 / Elinor Mills
Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing the damage last year, according to a new study from McAfee.
January 29, 2009 / Stephanie Condon
WASHINGTON--Is your Internet provider interfering with your network traffic, and perhaps even running afoul of Net neutrality principles? Google and some like-minded folks believe they've come up with what amounts to an early warning system.
January 29, 2009 / Matt Asay
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.
January 23, 2009 / Brooke Crothers
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday reported a bigger-than-expected net loss of $1.4 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008. This is the chipmaker's ninth consecutive quarterly loss.
January 23, 2009 / Caroline McCarthy
The blogosphere's love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won't stop.
January 22, 2009 / Anne Dujmovic
Apple announced Tuesday it has opened an online store selling used products in China in an effort to expand its business there, according to
a Reuters report.
January 17, 2009 / CNET News staff
Antitrust: Commission confirms sending a Statement of Objections to Microsoft on the tying of Internet Explorer to Windows
January 16, 2009 / Elinor Mills
In a move to stop the spread of child pornography on the Internet, German officials will soon be asking ISPs to filter out Web sites they deem offensive,
according to news magazine Der Spiegel.
January 15, 2009 / Dawn Kawamoto
Autodesk announced on Thursday plans to cut about 10 percent of its workforce--or about 750 employees--as it lowered its fourth-quarter earnings outlook.
January 15, 2009 / Josh Lowensohn
Earlier this week, I sat down with Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson to talk about the future of the service and to find out what's been keeping the team busy behind the scenes. Here are five tidbits from our meeting you might find interesting.
January 15, 2009 / Alex Serpo
Australian immigration authorities have denied a business visa to a Sun MySQL developer travelling to Australia to attend Linux.conf.au in Hobart.
January 14, 2009 / Matt Asay
Facebook on Tuesday announced that it has made the Facebook Markup Language extensible, enabling developers outside of Facebook to create custom tags.
January 14, 2009 / Martin LaMonica
Sue Butler decided it was time to cut the cord on fossil fuels. So when her aging gas furnace needed replacing, she turned to the Earth for a solution.
January 12, 2009 / Stephen Shankland
Google on Friday released an open-source project,
Google Blog Converters, intended to help people move their blogs from one service to another.
January 10, 2009 / Daniel Terdiman
LAS VEGAS--Apple might not want anything to do with it, but if one thing is clear, it's that porn on the iPhone is going to be huge.
January 10, 2009 / Jessica Dolcourt
Microsoft has been in the software game long enough to know that when you're announcing a release as big as an operating system to millions of itchy-fingered techies, you release it when you say you will and you have the foresight to get your servers in a row.
January 10, 2009 / Stephen Shankland
Russian-language Firefox users will see a new default search provider soon: Google rival Yandex.
January 9, 2009 / Nate Mook
For the first time in the United States, mobile phone users can now download a "lite" version of Skype that can be used for making calls to other Skype members and to landline and mobile phones at a low rate. Unlike Truphone, Skype lite doesn't require Wi-Fi and instead utilizes the phone's data plan.
January 9, 2009 / Stephen Shankland
It's time for our aperiodic wrap-up of Google items. We'll start off with the most unusual, in my opinion: wacky ASCII art.
January 9, 2009 / Caroline McCarthy
One True Media, the parent company of an online video ad creator called
SpotMixer, has announced a fresh $9 million in Series B venture funding. The round was led by DAG Ventures, with contributions from NTT Finance and existing investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
January 7, 2009 / Sharon Fisher
Once again just before CES week, Microsoft is claiming victory in the game console race, at least against rival Sony PlayStation 3. And once again, veteran analyst Sharon Fisher pores over the numbers.
January 7, 2009 / Renai LeMay
Windows 7 could be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfills the promise shown by the unofficial beta version (build 7000) we have been testing for the past couple of days.
January 6, 2009 / Declan McCullagh
In what amounts to a thinly veiled legal threat, the Chinese government has intensified its campaign against sexually explicit material online by instructing companies, including Google, to curb the availability of pornography.
January 6, 2009 / Elinor Mills
Searches at Microsoft's Windows Live Search site dropped again in November from a year ago while Google's continued to rise, according to Nielsen Online figures released on Monday.
January 6, 2009 / Marguerite Reardon
Cisco Systems, which builds the gear that powers the Internet, is making a big push this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with new products that will help consumers move digital media around their homes.
January 6, 2009 / Tim Conneally
Addressing the recent announcement that he will not deliver the Macworld keynote this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released a statement this morning about his mysterious health condition.
January 6, 2009 / Daniel Terdiman
Happy New Year, everyone.
January 2, 2009 / Angela Gunn
Every so often, the Web provides a form of entertainment that almost everyone can enjoy -- a punching bag. Enter Andy Burnham, the UK Culture Minister, and his recent musings on a movie-style ratings system for the Internet.
Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support
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