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Google is trumpeting victory in a European court ruling over its practice of selling trademarks to competing firms for use in the search giant's paid results program. However, the EU court also set a new standard for national courts that could ultimately reshape how the company's US$23 billion advertising business operates ...

The newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will feature full hardware acceleration and a new Javascript engine that engages multiple processor cores for faster rendering, the company has announced. The new version aso reverses the software giant's reluctance to adapt to HTML 5 ...

Facebook, thanks to its 400 million status-updating, link-sharing, asparagus-farming, party picture-posting denizens, has risen to the top of the Internet heap once again, surpassing -- at least according to one ranking -- search giant Google in total U.S. visitors for the third time this year ...

Microsoft has thrown the doors open to developers interested in working on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform, announcing new developer tools and offering the deepest look yet at the Silverlight-based architecture during keynote sessions Monday at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas ...

You've got apps for your phone. You'll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps ...

Google and Dish Network are testing a service that allows television users to search for television programming and Web content from set-top boxes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday ...

TiVo has unveiled a new DVR that expands on its delivery of Web content while refining its interface for the high-def era ...

A federal grand jury in New Jersey has indicted four owners and key employees of a California-based company that prosecutors said for years illegally cornered the market on the best concert and sporting event seats ...

Document-sharing site Scribd.com launched a new feature Wednesday allowing users to easily transfer many of the site's 10 million books, magazines, and documents to mobile devices, including Amazon's Kindle, the Nook e-reader, and the Apple iPhone ...

The Federal Trade Commission is getting proactive in trying to reduce the risk of data breaches due to peer-to-peer programs, notifying nearly 100 organizations of data breaches it traced back to file-sharing ...

Credit card issuers must follow new rules of the road as of Monday, but consumers should not view the new protections as a cure-all for their frustrations with plastic ...

Fresh off the introduction of its Nexus One smartphone, hailed by some tech analysts as the first real iPhone killer candidate, Google has debuted mockups of a possible tablet device running its yet-to-be released open source Chrome operating system ...

When stumbling around the Web in search of a new toaster or a great deal on a new pair of sneakers, it's not unusual for consumers to come across ominous policy dialogs warning of mismatched or expired SSL certificates. In fact, recent surveys have shown nearly 20 percent, or even more, of popular Web sites may have certificate problems that would lead to errors...

Microsoft technology used to program applications that can be accessed through a browser continued to be blocked for Firefox users Monday ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance is preparing a new specification designed to allow devices from cellphones to printers to connect to each other reliably, securely and wirelessly ...

Part 1 of this series explored the potentially dangerous distraction that in-car GPS use may pose for drivers ...

This is way out of the Dell dude's league ...

Looking through the news, it's not hard to find a story about someone driving into a river or onto railroad on the advice of an in-car navigation system ...

Xerox said Monday that it will buy Affiliated Computer Services for US$6.4 billion in cash and stock ...

Dramatic, down-to-the-wire finishes aren't the sorts of things one generally associates with technology prizes. However, the team behind the US$1 million prize awarded by Netflix says that's exactly how that contest went down ...