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Google has released a new search editing tool that gives users more control over their results. SearchWiki enables users to customize their searches by re-ranking, deleting, adding and even commenting on their search results. Users will also be able to see how others have edited their searches; however, the edits will only apply to their personal searches...

"Cloud computing is not magical, but it is more economical, more easily scaled and more easily managed," said Lance Walley, chief executive officer of Engine Yard, a hosting and infrastructure support company for Ruby on Rails applications It's getting more so, too, Walley told TechNewsWorld. That's because it's so practical, more applications are ...

It's been said that the meek shall inherit the Earth, but in the cutthroat world of technology, only the bold survive Some of the biggest names in the high-tech and media sectors launched initiatives in the last year that have changed the landscape -- perhaps permanently....

It was an interesting week last week, made even more interesting by a bunch of news services calling our U.S. president-elect either the new Hitler or a Marxist, suggesting these folks got some really bad eggnog. This should be filed under NOT HELPING. While tempted, I'll avoid further mentioning that insanity in the hope they sober up and instead focus on some interesting tech moves...

Marketers often ignore a critical measurement -- customer attitudes and emotions -- when examining customer behavior. This critical measurement can hold the key to insights that can drive the best kind of marketing -- presenting the right message and offer to the right people at the right time Attitudinal information is available today through new ...

Computer and server maker Dell surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected profits Thursday The company reported US$727 million in earnings in the third quarter, down 5 percent from the $766 million it reported during the same period in 2007. Third-quarter revenue came in at $15.16 billion, a 3 percent decrease from the same period last year....

In four years, driving a car in the San Francisco Bay area may involve a variation of the "plug and play" concept. Think "plug and drive," if the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and start-up Better Place have their way The company, founded by former SAP executive and Wired magazine cover subject Shai Agassi, announced a private-public...

President-elect Barack Obama may not find it that hard to give up his BlackBerry after all. Verizon Wireless has announced that some of its employees accessed his personal cell phone account records. The wireless provider apologized to the president-elect and said it would discipline the employees involved Verizon apparently realized this week that...

Now that both the country and the world are in dire economic straits, attention has recently been drawn to the -- in some cases -- outsized amount of CEO compensation, especially in the cases of companies that have benefited from a U.S. government bailout The current economic morass notwithstanding, stockholders and special interest groups have rou...

The rest of the economy may be tanking, but online advertising in the U.S. posted big year-over-year gains, according to the New York City-based Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet advertising revenue reached nearly US$5.9 billion in the third quarter, an 11 percent increase compared to the same period the year before...

The joke used to be on the U.S. Postal Service. Indeed, jabs about the government's mail system may have driven business to private-sector competitors like United Parcel Service, Federal Express, and DHL That was decades ago; now, it seems, some of the same companies designed to outperform the USPS have attracted complaints about sluggish deliverie...

I've been using a T-Mobile G1 for about a month now, and while it's the best phone I've ever owned (yes, I bought it), I haven't yet found myself saying "I love this phone." I like it plenty, don't get me wrong, but like any device, it's got things about it that are frustrating and other things that are pretty cool.

The history of James Bond films is the history of our fascination with technology: booby-trapped briefcases, jetpacks, cars with machine guns and ejector seats, super-magnet watches, cars driven by remote control, acid-filled fountain pens, cars that become invisible, sharks with frickin' lasers Sorry, wrong spy movie franchise on that last example...

Yahoo and T-Mobile jointly announced that Yahoo oneSearch will be the default mobile engine to power Internet search made through T-Mobile's new Web2go service. The new Web2go service is basically a customizable home page on a mobile phone that makes it easier to view and navigate the Internet on the handheld device Yahoo oneSearch is designed to h...

IBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer -- but not just any supercomputer. They've been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain "There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain," said Dharmendra M...

So far, the testimony in the Lori Drew cyber-bullying trial, which began Wednesday in Los Angeles, has generated headlines for its inherent drama and tragedy: the mother of a teenage daughter, accused of using the MySpace social network to stage an elaborate hoax that ends with the suicide of a troubled 13-year-old classmate, Megan Meier But the le...

Samsung announced Thursday it has begun mass production of a 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) designed for use in notebook an desktop PCs. The drives round out Samsung's line of SSDs, which includes 8, 16, and 32 GB SSD models for low-density designs and 64 and 128 GB for higher densities, the company said "The significance of this launch ...

Nokia and IBM are teaming up to bring corporate e-mail, calendar, address book and messaging functions to mobile workers Nokia's move is its latest attempt to compete with Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device. The Finland-based phonemaker signed a similar deal with Microsoft in September....

What's left to do after you've earned your first billion in the technology business? For some, it's legacy building -- finding a way to make a mark of a different sort in the world....

NASA has announced it has successfully tested the first deep-space communications network. The new network, modeled on the Internet, was able to transmit scores of space images between Earth and a NASA science spacecraft located more than 20 million miles away Dubbed the "Interplanetary Internet," the software protocol was a joint venture between N...