September 22, 2011
Netflix's recent moves may have been exceedingly clumsy, but the heavy focus on streaming is the way to go, says film critic Roger Ebert
September 20, 2011
The startup's Web-based weather service attracted consumers and the likes of the White House and FedEx. This year it chose to focus on business accounts
September 13, 2011
With university allies in Google's Print Library Project under fire in court—and the company cutting back on ambitious projects—is the plan's end near?
September 12, 2011
Companies that try to be cutesy or tell bad jokes online are confusing being friendly with being flippant
September 7, 2011
The flood of information from social media and elsewhere is propelling companies' use of free and customizable software called Hadoop to manage it
August 29, 2011
Amid a furor over Google+'s ban on pseudonymity and anonymity, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt just admitted the company intends to be an 'identity service"
August 23, 2011
The self-styled "hometown newspaper" of the Web wants to write about online communities like Reddit and YouTube as though they were real-world towns
August 21, 2011
Like Twitter, Google's social network has yet to solve some challenging problems. Among them: the "noisy stream" and how to find interesting content
August 18, 2011
As the daily deal site prepares an eagerly awaited IPO, pressure is mounting for it to prove it's not another dot-com flameout like Pets.com
August 17, 2011
Google's social network is putting competitive pressure on Facebook, which may be a good thing for Facebook users and third-party developers
August 12, 2011
Are we amusing ourselves to death online, and if so, what is the cure?
August 10, 2011
With Google, Pandora, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Vudu, and even Microsoft embracing HTML5, these are exciting times for vendors, developers and consumers
August 9, 2011
The software maker's Vlad Sejnoha says speech is transforming from an alternative to text input into a more powerful tool to connect mobile users to information
August 8, 2011
Facebook and Twitter can fuel uprisings by allowing participants to coordinate action and to see themselves as part of a larger movement
July 6, 2011
Companies and advocacy groups are stepping up efforts to provide jobs for the rising number of unemployed people with disabilities
July 6, 2011
The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text
July 6, 2011
A tiny number of virtual-goods high rollers supply the bulk of the game maker’s revenue
June 22, 2011
When it comes to cloud computing, corporate IT doesn't quite "get it" just yet. Simon Crosby, CTO, datacenter and cloud division, for Citrix Systems (CTXS), said on ...
June 20, 2011
The old joke had it that when you're online, "no one knows you're a dog." The idea of online anonymity has been taking a beating recently, in part because of such ...
June 10, 2011
(Bloomberg) Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing mobile devices that will help consumers make purchases wirelessly, two people familiar with the company's plans ...
June 8, 2011
Ever since the iPhone and iPad arrived, publishers have spent millions building dedicated software to try to cash in on the app boom. Everyone who was ...
June 7, 2011
Linda Smith walked on stage at the Spring 2011 Demo Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Feb. 28 and tried on clothes. Looking at herself in an interactive mirror, ...
May 26, 2011
(Bloomberg) Pandora Media Inc., the Internet-music company preparing for an initial public offering, said revenue more than doubled last quarter and its user ...
May 23, 2011
Come January, all eyes will be on Iowa and New Hampshire as voters seek to discover who will emerge as the Republican frontrunner to contend against President Barack ...
May 20, 2011
Groupon, the largest provider of online daily-deal coupons, plans to alert customers to nearby discounts using location data from the mobile-phone application Loopt. ...