[vodpod id=Video.5907449&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] If you happened upon the Internet Friday, you would have been faced with what has now become an annual tradition online: Technology companies trying to one-up each other with April Fool’s jokes posted online. Goog... Read more...
With the fate of the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T in Washington's hands, all the big tech players are moving their pawns. And now the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a trade group that includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo and Facebook, has come out aga... Read more...
The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Much the way firms battled in the 198... Read more...
But Google remains dominant with nine tenths of global search traffic Microsoft's Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second most popular search engine on the web, according to new figures from research firm StatCounter. Bing handled 4.37 per cent of the world's search queries last month... Read more...
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Mozilla has proposed technology that would allow the user to implement so-called Do Not Track features to stymie behavioral advertising. The big question is whether these moves by Mozilla, Google and Microsoft will be enough to take Do Not Track features mainstream. Mozilla’s draft policyâ... Read more...
In early November 2010, Google sued the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), claiming the agency unfairly excluded it from a bid for a new hosted e-mail system contract that Microsoft won. On January 5, the U.S. Federal Claims Court temporarily blocked Microsoft from proceeding with the $49.3... Read more...
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks to the media on the importance of net neutrality, Dec. 1, at the headquarters of the FCC in Washington, DC. U.S. communications regulators were poised to adopt Internet traffic rules on Tuesday that would allow providers... Read more...
When you navigate to a banking or e-commerce site, the little padlock displayed on your browser should mean the website is HTTPS-encrypted and secure. Many sites rely on a third-party certificate authority (CA) to issue a SSL certificate that guarantees the site is authentic. There are hundreds of... Read more...