It has been revealed that the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conduction an investigation of Google over complaints of antitrust and anti-competitive behavior, and the search giant is responding.According to Search Engine Land, the...

This week’s Web Faceoff between Skype and Google Voice came down to the wire.Last week, Google stepped onto Skype’s turf with the launch of

In less than two days, Apple’s Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone.Apple introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10 at its music event earlier this week. It is a music-centric social network where…

Google has agreed to pay a hefty sum to make a class action lawsuit concerning Google Buzz disappear — $8.5 million, to be exact.The lawsuit dates back to February, when lawyers filed a class action complaint against…

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Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living…

In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook&...

Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs).The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX 460M monsters aimed at “enthusiast users,&#...

Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! I’m guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of loved ones together in…

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Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world…

NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone.NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well as live…

Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are “talking about, listen...

Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media, where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you…

iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network.As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of…

If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The Onion’s A.V. Club has come up with&#...

Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users.The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was…

Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top 10 most popular web video series, and we share those results with you and provide analysis. Visible Measures tracks views, comments and other data on…

We’ve partnered with SANYO to give away 20 newly released SANYO Dual HD PD2 cameras. From today until next Friday, we’ll be giving two readers a camera each day, with six winners on the final…

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy.You have created a Facebook Fan&...

According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined.In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share, Linux was at 0.85%, while…

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of…

Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace e-mail. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due to lack of…

If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s sun won’t include sending people up there.But NASA will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmo...

We’ve just gotten an e-mail from Twitter stating that staffers are testing push notifications amongst themselves and the company will be rolling this feature out to all users soon.Push notifications would enable users to get instant, real-time...

It’s something you’d expect to hear from your mother, not your government, but New York’s newest laws are all about exercising common sense when looking for love online.Sounding like something between a schoolteacher and a public se...

Since Twitter acquired Tweetie and rolled out an official iPhone client, the company has focused more and more on improving the mobile experience across all smartphone platforms.Twitter CEO Ev Williams wrote just now on the company blog…

Hurricane Earl is expected to wreak some havoc on the East Coast this Labor Day weekend. According to the the National Hurricane Center, Earl is expected “pass near the North Carolina outer banks tonight [Thursday]… and approach southeastern̷...

Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network.AllFacebook reports that it has noticed the new feature popping up on friends...

Facebook is bolstering the security of user accounts through the launch of a new feature that gives users the ability to see their overall account activity and remotely log out of active sessions.Have you ever logged into your Facebook…