Microsoft hopeful technology will spur growth A top Microsoft official expressed hope Sunday that technology will spur economic growth around the world as the US software giant launches its latest operating system. [...] October 18, 2009 03:27 PM InternetEU launches digital library at Frankfurt Book Fair The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.... October 18, 2009 02:53 PM InternetFury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project "Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet search service, defended plans to turn millions of... October 18, 2009 02:48 PM InternetEU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.... October 18, 2009 12:56 PM InternetEU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.... October 18, 2009 08:33 AM InternetEU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.... October 18, 2009 07:39 AM InternetFury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project "Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet information service, defended plans to turn... October 18, 2009 05:26 AM InternetWindows 7 to salvage Vista "train wreck" Microsoft releases Windows 7 to the world on Thursday as the US software giant tries to regain its stride after an embarrassing stumble with the previous generation operating system Vista. "It's a... October 18, 2009 04:53 AM InternetRio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet. [...] October 17, 2009 07:13 PM InternetBritish hacker gets more time to fight US extradition A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers said. [...] October 17, 2009 06:41 PM InternetMum's the word at Vegas blogging convention For years, the stereotypical blogger was a geek yammering on about the latest technoglogy or a celebrity-obsessed scribe dishing about Paris, Lindsay and Madonna. But the powerhouses in blogging... October 17, 2009 04:17 PM InternetApple lets iPhone apps get down to business Apple said Friday that it is allowing businesses to sell content or services through applications given away for free at the iPhone maker's online App Store. The shift of policy is seen as a boon... October 16, 2009 10:01 PM InternetJackson "This Is It" album to sell at iTunes Five-year-old Victor Chupina holds the first ticket sold for a special screening of Michael Jackson's "This Is It" at L.A. Live in September 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Apple on Friday... October 16, 2009 09:53 PM InternetWhite House criticism of Fox increasing ratings: Murdoch News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Friday that White House criticism of commentators on his Fox News television channel had served to "tremendously" increase their ratings. [...] October 16, 2009 04:46 PM InternetGoogle Editions to be up and running next year Google's online service Google Editions enabling electronic books to be downloaded to mobile telephones and readers will have some half-a-million publications available in the first half of next... October 16, 2009 03:06 PM InternetIBM revenue down but net profit and forecast up US computer giant IBM reported a 14-percent rise in quarterly net profit Thursday and delivered a more optimistic forecast for the full year. IBM said net profit rose to 3.2 billion dollars, or... October 15, 2009 09:29 PM InternetGoogle sees economic revival in rising revenues Google chief executive Eric Schmidt proclaimed the worst of the economic storm over Thursday as the Internet powerhouse reported its quarterly revenues surged seven percent to 5.94 billion US... October 15, 2009 08:40 PM InternetMcCain daughter sorry for Twitter cleavage snap Meghan McCain, one of the daughters of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has apologized for using Twitter to post a picture in which she displayed an ample amount of cleavage.... October 15, 2009 07:27 PM InternetAmid newspaper woes, NY Times launches San Francisco edition The New York Times launches a San Francisco edition on Friday as US newspapers, facing a precipitous decline in advertising and the challenge of the Web, search for new markets and new revenue. [...] October 15, 2009 07:21 PM InternetAuschwitz-Birkenau museum launches Facebook profile The museum of the World War II-era Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has launched its profile, "Auschwitz Memorial", on the Facebook social networking website, a museum spokesman said... October 15, 2009 05:36 PM Internet |