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Developers of the major browsers -- Microsoft, Google and the Mozilla Foundation -- plan to implement so-called do-not-track features into their browsers so consumers can indicate when they don't want their movements online to be observed and recorded by site hosts, which generally use the information to strengthen their advertising systems The in...

Video-on-demand website Hulu is embroiled in internal struggles over its business model. The site is a pioneer in Internet video when it was launched by TV networks in 2008, streaming recent episodes of popular TV shows, along with a limited number of commercials, to computers and other devices.

Sony Computer Entertainment has disclosed further details about the PlayStation Portable 2, nicknamed the "Next-Generation Portable," or NGP, at a press conference in Tokyo ...

Facebook announced new measures Wednesday aimed at improving users' security when visiting the site. The news came with an intriguing twist: Mere hours prior to the announcement, it was revealed that the Facebook fan page of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was compromised by a hacker While some online skeptics linked Facebook's new security fea...

Healthcare technology has really made incredible advances over the last several years. However, while there is an app for almost everything, much still seems to be stuck in the Fred Flintstone era. Doctors still carry around thick folders with years of patient history. Yesterday, this was the only way to capture all of a patient's information. How...

Wouldn't it be great if customers who had questions about your products could get the answer from other customers? Wouldn't it be wonderful if customers brainstormed on ways you could improve your service processes? Wouldn't it be tremendous if you could see trends in service needs and adjust your processes to meet them earlier and more effectively?...

Not all polymers are plastics, but all plastics are polymers. And organic (carbon-based) polymer plastics, known mostly for being insulators, in some cases make excellent conductors and semiconductors The term "all-polymer semiconductor" (with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor) sounds almost like an ...

Facebook is not -- repeat NOT -- developing a mobile phone, a company representative told TechNewsWorld Wednesday, trying to waylay the latest rumor that the social media giant might be looking to add a new identity -- "Phonebook," perhaps? -- to its mega-popular worldwide brand. The latest gossip -- that HTC will launch two such phones at the Mob...

Facebook is tracking your comments for ad opportunities. On Tuesday, Facebook announced its new advertising platform, called "Sponsored Stories." The new ads will be integrated near the user's news feed. Advertisements can be prompted by words that appear in apps, statuses, check-ins and "likes."

Google will reportedly allow in-app payment abilities in Android applications sometime this quarter Android Developer Ecosystem Manager Eric Chu announced this at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Tuesday, according to reports....

Beginning July 1, Facebook will require games on its site to accept payments in its own virtual currency, Facebook Credits. It is not an exclusive requirement -- game developers can use other game currencies as well. Facebook, however, will motivate developers to use its system, dangling such plums as early access to new product features and bette...

The announcement that Google Cofounder Larry Page will become the company's CEO is a very big deal -- and not just for Google With Mark Zuckerberg firmly ensconced in the top spot at Facebook, and Page set to take the reins at Google in April, the two most influential companies in the tech industry will be headed by CEOs who launched their careers ...

A Canadian from the Province of Manitoba has recently sued the Internet giant Google, citing unspecified damages regarding alleged problems stemming from Google's social networking and messaging tool "Buzz," which is integrated into Gmail, the company's Web-based email program. This came on the heels of the recent US$8.5 million settlement entered...

Microsoft did some smart things last week when it announced its Dynamics CRM Online service. Most of the headlines will focus on the teaser rate or introductory pricing of only US$34 per seat-month for 12 months. Until June, users of Oracle CRM On-Demand and Salesforce who switch will have an added inducement of up to $200 per user, which everyone acknowledges ought to go to conversion costs. ...

The upcoming new Unity shell design for the next release of Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04 could change the face of the popular Linux desktop as we know it. Canonical creator Mark Shuttleworth is pushing the change to Unity while other Linux distros are rolling into GNOME 3 ...

California is facing budget problems yet again, and once again state lawmakers are hoping to shake down Internet retailers as a fast source of revenue. A bill introduced by Democratic Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (AB 153) proposes to force out-of-state businesses to collect tax if they use an in-state company to generate leads. It's an idea that has been tested in New York and led to significant losses in that state...

Printing is headed for the cloud, Google has announced multiple times in the past year, and on Monday, it beta-launched Cloud Print for mobile documents "Imagine printing an important document from your smartphone on the way to work and finding the printout waiting for you when you walk in the door," Google Cloud Print team member Tyler Odean poste...

Verizon's earnings report released Tuesday shows the company still outpacing competitors. Verizon Communications reported its fourth-quarter profit was US$2.64 billion, up from $617 million in 2009. That's a rise from 22 cents per share to 93 cents per share. Although Q4 sales were up 5.7 percent from last year to $16.15 billion, overall revenue fell 2.6 percent to $26.39 billion.

EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci called the company's "Smartest System" launch event in New York City, "not just largest in the history of the company but of the industry" -- but was that a fact or mere PR-speak? For my money, it was the former. The event found EMC playing at the top of its game with an impressive number (41) of new and upgraded pro...

Back in the mid-1990s, then Microsoft CEO Bill Gates offered a prophetic observation. The impact of the Web, he wrote, would be greater than most people thought, but would take longer to happen than was commonly supposed....