Facebook was born in 2004 as a way for college students to connect with friends. But what does the Palo Alto social media giant want to be when it grows up? Similar to how Microsoft, Google and Apple have inserted themselves into users’ everyday lives,…

Facebook was born in 2004 as a way for college students to connect with friends. But what does the Palo Alto social media giant want to be when it grows up? Similar to how Microsoft, Google and Apple have inserted themselves into users’ everyday lives,…

You might call it “Son of the Netflix Prize.” The DVD-rental company has not yet announced a winner for its $1 million challenge to improve its system of recommending movies that subscribers may enjoy, but it is already indicating there will be a sequel. In a…

College students fed up with spending hundreds of dollars to buy textbooks they only use once are getting some new rental options. And textbook publishers, undercut by sales and rentals of used versions that push them to the sidelines, are hoping they have…

The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high-speed Internet access to every American home and offered stimulus money to help companies pay for it, but the biggest network operators are staying away. With the deadline today to apply for…

Naturally, Twitter Chief Executive Officer Evan Williams and his wife, Sara, tweeted to the world about the birth of their son. The saga started Monday night with Sara Williams announcing she was going into labor: Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn’t like…

New competition in the smartphone market — and not just from Research In Motion — spurred the agreement between Nokia and Microsoft. On Wednesday, the companies announced they will develop Microsoft Office, business communications, collaboration and device…

Twitter is out, cloud computing is all hot air and people have finally found a use for wikis, according to an overview of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for 2009 (PDF). The annual report is an attempt by Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company,…

A federal judge in Texas has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Word software in the U.S. within two months. U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis was reaffirming his court’s May decision, which found Microsoft’s widely used word…

Deep sea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot severed at least three undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables and disrupted three others, causing Internet service disruptions in parts of Asia. The SWM-3 (Southeast Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 3)…