MICROSOFT has held talks with Rupert Murdoch\'s News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, putting pressure on search juggernaut Google to start paying for content
Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave. “Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.
Under New York\'s new \"Empire 2.0\" initiative, Deputy CIO, Rico Singleton is targeting developement of an alert system that will connect to various game console networks like Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Wii Connect.
The new Chrome OS promises extreme security. It is too early to put it to the test, but we took a close look at their strategy and checked in with some security experts for their opinions, too.
The New York Times\' Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to Boycott Bing, claiming that Bing is censoring Simplified Chinese queries even outside the People’s Republic of China.
Google took the wraps off Chrome OS yesterday. The OS will be a big deal. Here are some observations that you might not have considered. 1.This isn\'t a 100% Google endeavor. 2. Google is really slimming this down. 3. Thin client. Chrome OS is really an \"Internet Thin Client OS\"
Sony presented “flexible organic EL displays driven by organic TFTs,” along with various product concepts, including a Walkman with a flexible organic EL display. “Flexible organic EL displays driven by organic TFTs” were achieved using technology that integrates organic thin-film transistors and organic EL elements on a plastic film.
Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed.
It\'s easy to forget about your body\'s needs when you\'re deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades.
A public service meant to help the hearing disabled has been exploited for \"tens of millions of dollars,\" according to the FCC. Arrests were made across the US this week and the FCC vowed to improve the service to better protect against fraud.
The Federal Commission has listed seven big bumps in the road towards universal use of broadband in the United States, including the TV set-top box innovation gap and the spectrum gap. The document may be a sneak preview of the agency\'s National Broadband Plan, to be released in February.
When Sweden’s IPRED legislation came into force on April 1st this year, the country saw a massive 30% drop in Internet traffic. Many attributed this to Internet user fears associated with increased powers of anti-piracy groups. Now, 8 months later, traffic is completely back to normal and on track to exceed pre-IPRED levels.
In an age where products that have never been announced get coverage and even critiqued over rumored shipping delays, it\'s no surprise that Google received a lot of coverage this week with an update on its Chrome OS strategy.
Streaming High Def flash video clips to your PC, netbook or notebook just got much less taxing on your machine thanks to Adobe\'s upcoming release that will offload to your graphics chip. In fact, CPU resource savings are pretty huge in some cases.\\r
The MOTO Development Group has just released what may be the coolest thing to hit a casino floor in decades. The group is calling its new Multi-Touch BlackJack table a \"world\'s first,\" and gamers will soon be able to experience it at the Global Gaming Expo 2010 in Las Vegas.
A recent study by RapLeaf shows that Twitter and LinkedIn are at least twice as popular amongst Gmail users as they are with Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users.
Google fired another shell at Microsoft\'s fundamental business model on Thursday, when it released the code behind its Google Chrome OS. What happens when you turn the operating system into just another advertising medium? Quite a number of things.
Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.