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Google has added a new option called buzz targeting to its attempts to convert YouTube's popularity into actual revenue.
Video game giant posts fourth-quarter revenues that beat analyst expectations, looks ahead to fiscal 2009, when it expects to release 15 new games.
Men indicted for installing software at cash register terminals that captured credit and debit card data, after supermarket shoppers in California have their data stolen.
The automaker tells BusinessWeek that it is considering skipping Windows Vista entirely and waiting for Windows 7.
The dominant maker of geographic information system software is making it easier for governments to share their own detailed mapping information.
At San Francisco conference, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun.
Office Labs' Search Commands makes navigating Office 2007's ribbon as easy as type and click.
Research from data analysis firm PubMatic says that between March and April, online ad monetization rates dropped 23 percent across the Web.
Grand Theft Auto sets a world record; Apple and HBO taking their rumored relationship public; and why Microsoft loves the Mac.
Company says it will turn off service in 30 days after it was unable to negotiate a deal with the city and a nonprofit group interested in taking over the network.
Free service lets you learn about world religions, wine, famous poets and Greek mythology from Wikipedia in five minutes via e-mail and RSS installments.
The mega-merger plan may have gone away, but the threat from Google it was supposed to address hasn't.
Weeks after eBay accuses Craigslist of trying to dilute its ownership stake, Craigslist managers accuse eBay of trying to harm the Web's No.1 classified site.
What Yahoo has, Microsoft wants. But talks break down, and the software giant says a proxy battle isn't worth it. Tune in here for the latest.
Yahoo's Delicious plug-in has been a Firefox phenomenon, but now a beta version is available for Internet Explorer, too.
By opening its Geo Search API, Google now lets outside Web sites display the full set of geographically tagged features that Google Maps can show.
Some users of the popular social-networking site panicked when the media gossip blog claimed it would show a list of the five people who visited a given member's profile most frequently.
Creative Labs has just released a new $99 budget video camera that's designed to compete with the very popular Flip video camera.
One blogger theorizes that the small wiki-building start-up could be positioning itself to take on niche social site creators like Ning.
By quickly downloading some driver software over an open Wi-Fi network, I was able to get the super-thin Mac connected to the Internet via EVDO.