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Yahoo topped Google as the most-visited website in the United States in July, Web analytics firm comScore reported on Wednesday Specifically, Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors during the month, compared with 192.3 million for Google. This is the first time Yahoo has found itself in the top spot for U.S. Web traffic since May 2011....

The U.S. government is investigating bribes that Microsoft is alleged to have given to officials in Russia and Pakistan in return for contracts, marking the expansion of an ongoing probe The Russia investigation apparently centers on software resellers funneling kickbacks to execs at a state-owned company in order to win a deal. In Pakistan, meanwh...

In an abrupt about-face, Instagram has begun cracking the whip over developers using "insta" and "gram" in the titles of their apps In a letter sent to several developers earlier this week, Instagram said it had "clarified" its guidelines and determined that "use of 'INSTA' and 'GRAM' for an application that works with Instagram is harmful to the I...

LG Electronics on Wednesday announced what it says is the highest-resolution smartphone panel to date. With a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 and 538 pixels per inch, the new 5.5-inch Quad HD panel is the first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones, the company says That resolution exceeds by a considerable margin the iPhone 4's retina display, whic...

The wireless industry has grown and changed over time. In fact, there seems to be a major transformation every few years, and change is starting to occur once again So what will wireless look like tomorrow, and how will it grow? Where should workers, companies and investors look for new opportunities?...

The makers of the Zurmo CRM platform have released a new version of the technology, a refresh focused on third-party app integrations that allow users to streamline their various Web applications with the Zurmo software. Launched on Tuesday, Zurmo 2.2 comes equipped with Google Apps integration, allowing users to synchronize information about cont...

There's no denying the growing impact of open source software in today's business landscape, but for those who want additional proof of the open approach's viability, there's OpenStax College. Since 2012, the initiative has been producing peer-reviewed open source textbooks under a Creative Commons license This year, the organization expects to sav...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday launched Internet.org, a project with a goal no less lofty than to provide Internet access to everyone on the planet With other founding members including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung, the project aims to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments ...

Brazil has proposed new laws that would force e-businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers to store personal data about said customers on local servers Google and Facebook have raised objections to the plan, saying that such requirements would, in the words of Facebook Brazil, "entail huge costs and inefficiencies in online business in the countr...

Google is contesting the right of UK Safari users to bring a case against it in the UK, according to a statement from the plaintiffs' law firm To emphasize its stance, in fact, the search engine did not accept notice of the lawsuit in the UK but forced the plaintiffs to file in California instead -- a jurisdiction in which their case, which alleges...

Am I making up a term? Maybe This column is inspired by the continuing dreadful news out of PC land. Last week Dell announced its profits for the just finished quarter dropped 72 percent year over year and Lenovo took over the No. 1 one spot in PC manufacturing from HP, though both companies saw declines....

The U.S. Interior Department has embarked on a major transition to cloud technology that could result in its spending US$10 billion on the program over nine years. DOI selected 10 vendors to participate in the program last May, and since then the vendors have been announcing definitive contracts with the department "This move is central to transfo...

This story was originally published in two parts on April 12 and April 19, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series As mobile marketing evolves, so do its risks.

Paragon's ExtFS is a cross-platform application that can make using Linux much easier in multiple-OS platforms As much as I try to stay exclusively in the Linux OS world, every so often a work situation arises that puts the comfort zone of staying with Linux to the test....

Google on Tuesday announced that it is incorporating real-time traffic data from Waze into its popular Google Maps mobile application "Users of Google Maps for Mobile will now benefit from real time incident reports from Waze users," explained Brian McClendon, vice president of Google Maps. "This means when Wazers report accidents, construction, ro...

Twitter on Monday unveiled a new feature that adds related headlines to embedded tweets, an addition that will help to tell the "story behind the tweet," the company said "Starting today, you will see a new 'Related headlines' section on the permalink page of tweets that have been embedded on websites," explained Brian Wallerstein, a software engin...

The continuing flood of news about the NSA's surveillance of Americans' communications, which has already forced secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle to shut down, has now claimed yet another victim Specifically, award-winning tech legal news site Groklaw, which served the free and open source software community, on Tuesday announced th...

Alan Rusbridger, the editor for The Guardian, wrote a column Monday detailing how British law enforcement had destroyed hard drives at the newspaper's offices in London The destruction was purportedly to prevent additional leaks about the National Security Agency....

AT&T announced Monday that it will be the exclusive carrier to launch the HTC One Mini, the smaller, cheaper version of the company's flagship smartphone. The HTC One Mini has already made its debut overseas, but AT&T will be the first carrier to offer a slightly different version of the phone in the U.S. The device checks in at 4.3 inches, only a...

Facebook, which offers a bounty of US$500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers' accounts without authorization The programmer, Khalil Shreateh, resorted to hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbe...