May 21, 2012
- Huge repositories of data collected by Internet companies are not accessible to scientists, leading some to complain that studies based on these data can’t be peer-reviewed.
- The European Commission said Google might have abused its dominant position in online search but gave the company a chance to settle without facing formal charges.
- Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available at no cost for the next five years.
May 19, 2012
- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.
May 18, 2012
- A faked résumé led to a victory for an activist shareholder, and an enduring mystery about Scott Thompson’s departure from Yahoo.
- Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.
May 16, 2012
- Cloud storage, now offered by a number of companies in different price ranges, offers a substitute for physical storage, with the additional ability to synchronize across multiple devices.
- Microsoft's Hotmail service has its own keyboard shortcuts for speeding up Web-based mail tasks - but can use Yahoo Mail or Gmail shortcuts instead.
- When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google and Apple, with Microsoft as an also-ran. But as television begins to resemble the mobile business, Microsoft is in the lead with the Xbox, according to a new report out Wednesday from Forrester Research.
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May 13, 2012
- Because Facebook tends to be tight-lipped about its plans, the company’s string of acquisitions may reveal a lot about the course it is charting.