| Hindus want Internet access as fundamental right Hindus want high-speed Internet access as a universal fundamental... | |
| Microsoft IE Browser Slips in Share After Gains Where's Microsoft's Enterprise Tablet Offering? Microsoft could be a dominant player in enterprise handheld computing. If only it made a play for the... |
| Microsoft Tool 'Hardens' Mission Critical Apps Where's Microsoft's Enterprise Tablet Offering? Microsoft could be a dominant player in enterprise handheld computing. If only it made a play for the... |
| Twitter Touts Mobile, Third-Party Client Use Chip Sales, Revenues Surge Ahead [August 20, 2010] With growth in mobile and servers, respectively, AMD and Intel saw expansion in two different areas key to their... |
| Dell Regains No. 2 Spot in PC Market Share Desktop PC sales may be on the decline thanks to the surge in sales of mobile devices, but PCs are still the primary computer for a significant number of enterprise users and hundreds of millions... |
| Google faces Texas AG inquiry, settles privacy suit SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine rankings. The... |
| PARTING SHOTS: Gov. Brewer nixes future debates Here's our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced she will not participate in anymore debates after her embarrassing showing this week.... |
| Texas Conducting Antitrust Review of Google Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant , following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year. The attorney general's... |
| Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according... |
| Texas AG Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Google Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conducting an antitrust review of Google, the search engine giant announced Friday. Abbott is looking into whether Google intentionally buries search results... |
| Google to Simplify Privacy Policy Google on Friday announced that it will be streamlining its privacy policy, effective Oct. 3. The search engine giant is not making any material changes to its policy, but is removing redundant... |
| Cisco Sprucing Up Call Centers With Social Media Is Social Media Underutilized for Hiring? [August 20, 2010] IT trailed one other industry in a survey by CareerBuilder of employers using social... |
| FCC Study Finds Broadband Speeds Lagging In its latest snapshot of the broadband market, Federal Communications Commission finds that less than half of households have sufficient connection... |
| Cisco Snags Arch Rock in Smart Grid Play Where's Microsoft's Enterprise Tablet Offering? Microsoft could be a dominant player in enterprise handheld computing. If only it made a play for the... |
| Texas opens inquiry into Google search results WASHINGTON – Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair. Google Inc. is facing increased scrutiny in Washington and Europe.... |
| Verizon Offers Prepaid Data Plans on Top Phones In what could be the first phase of a transformation in the way its smartphone users pay for Internet use, the nation's biggest carrier, Verizon Wireless, has introduced prepaid data plans. The... |
| Chrome Browser Updated After Two Years of Growth Google's Chrome browser is now two years old, and the youngster -- and its proud parent -- are celebrating its steady rise in popularity. According to Net Applications, Chrome had 7.5 percent of... |
| Twitter Users Still Flock to the Website, Which Stinks Twitter now has more than 145 million registered users, and sadly, most people still visit the social network through Twitter's default Web site. ... |
| Apple's Ping Inundated with Spam Comments iTunes-based social network called Ping . It's probably too early to draw many conclusions about Ping, but according to Chet Wisniewski at Sophos, one thing is clear: Apple didn't think... |
| 'NHL2K11' shoots, but sometimes misses Control issues, spotty artificial intelligence mar NHL2K11 Game is a Wii exclusive, but shooting is actually easier with a regular controller Game looks good and offers interesting features, but... |
| Google settles Buzz privacy lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has settled a lawsuit accusing it of privacy violations in connection with its Buzz social networking service, according to a court document filed on... |
| AP Interview: Wikipedia founder bullish on news Jimmy Wales, from the US, co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia, attends the "Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy" economic forum, at Villa d'Este, in Cernobbio, on the Como Lake,... |
| Stocks extend September rally after jobs report NEW YORK — The stock market is closing out its first winning week in a month after news on the economy started getting better. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 128 points today, its... |
| Union vote date set for Delta flight attendants Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines will begin voting later this month on whether to join a union. The vote will be the first under new rules that are widely seen as making it easier for... |
| As Joe Webb shines, Tarvaris Jackson gets booed and says 'I don't... The play was a simple out route intended for receiver Javon Walker. Tarvaris Jackson missed the sideline spot a couple of yards left, usually an easy meal for a cornerback to gobble up. Jackson's... |
| Tigers 10, Twins 9: Pitching staff a mess after 13-inning loss, so... RECAP: An ugly ballgame came to a merciful if undesirable end for the Twins when Nick Blackburn — who was supposed to start tonight's game against Texas — gave up a tiebreaking home run... |
| Shooter Now: For Vikings, cutting Rosenfels makes cents; Liriano was... Vikings quarterback Sage Rosenfels during a game against the Denver Broncos at the Metrodome in Minneapolis on September 2, 2010. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi) (Scott Takushi) Despite outplaying... |
| Funeral set for Lakeville officer killed in crash Funeral services are scheduled for an off-duty Lakeville police officer who was killed this week in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash, police said. Sgt. Brigham Strole, 46, was a 20-year veteran on... |
| Microsoft Begins Yahoo Ad Integration Where's Microsoft's Enterprise Tablet Offering? Microsoft could be a dominant player in enterprise handheld computing. If only it made a play for the... |
| Google, AOL Extend Search Agreement Under renewed agreement, Google will provide AOL's search and advertising technology for five more years, with an expansion into mobile and video... |
| Blog host Vox to close down Vox will shut down at the end of September, the San Francisco-based company said in an announcement Friday. The company said it halted new membership on Thursday and would stop allowing new posts on... |
| Epiq Systems concludes $29.9M share repurchase Epiq Systems Inc. has wrapped up a $29.9 million share repurchase program, buying about 2.3 million shares. The board of the Kansas City, Kan., company (Nasdaq: EPIQ), which provides software and... |
| Ga. Power files cost plan for nuclear project customers will pay an extra $1.74 a month on average for five years to help offset the costs of building two additional nuclear reactors at the utility’s Plant Vogtle. Those preliminary... |
| EBay fine reduced in counterfeit luxury goods case LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said Friday, but the online retailer's fine was reduced. Between 2001 and 2006, counterfeit Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior products were sold by users... |
| Google updates privacy policy SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a... |
| Apple vs. Facebook: What's Behind the Ping Controversy? Wondering why you can't use Facebook to find your friends on Ping--Apple's new iTunes-based social network that supposedly connects to the social networking site? Turns out Apple and Facebook... |
| Anti-Google Group's Creeptastic Video Campaign Consumer Watchdog, an anti-Google group, invaded Times Square with a 540-square-foot video cartoon of Google CEO Eric Schmidt frightening children -- and me -- with threats of infiltrating their... |
| iTunes Ping: The Missing Thing , a new social network that runs within the iTunes software. Ping takes the "activity stream" format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are "talking... |
| Summary Box: Google, AOL reach new search deal THE DEAL: Under a new five-year agreement, Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites. The companies signed the deal this week. THE MONEY: AOL declined to give... |
| German court rules against YouTube over copyright BERLIN—A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of... |
| Fake checks, $15,000 cash found during traffic stop near New Ulm Two people who were stopped for speeding near New Ulm Tuesday are now facing felony charges for allegedly running a check scam that spanned across several state lines. A Minnesota State Patrol... |
| Pilot error, missing equipment blamed for medical copter crash near La Crosse airport Pilot error and the lack of proper warning equipment is being blamed for the 2008 crash of a University of Wisconsin Med Flight helicopter that killed three people. The National Transportation... |
| Man gets more than 5 years prison in Inver Grove Heights bank robbery A Brooklyn Park man will serve more than five years in prison for robbing a credit union bank last year in Inver Grove Heights, a federal judge ruled this morning. Herman Wilson, 44, pleaded guilty... |
| Missing Anoka County sheriff's dog is found A police drug-sniffing dog that went missing in Champlin has been found. The Anoka County sheriff's office says Sherman was found by a citizen this orning and returned to his handler. The... |
| Louisiana Gov. Jindal to raise money for Minnesota GOP Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed north to help Minnesota Republicans raise money with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a probable 2012 presidential candidate. Minnesota GOP spokesman Mark Drake confirmed... |
| Medical imaging startup raises $5.2M has added $5.2 million in a new financing, according to a report published late Thursday. With the financing, part of a planned $10 million Series B round led by new venture capital investor... |
| Bruker subsidiary files for $100M IPO Bruker Corp. , plans to go public with an initial public offering in which the superconducting technology company is looking to raise approximately $100 million. According to the form filed with... |
| Facebook testing Twitter-like 'Subscribe' feature Twitter 's follow feature, according to reports. VentureBeat and the blog All Facebook report that the feature, being tested with a small number of people, gives subscribers notifications of new... |
| BP closes $98M biofuels buyout first announced in July . As part of the acquisition, Verenium’s pilot plant and demonstration-scale facility in Jennings, La., is now owned by BP. BP also takes over the Cambridge... |
