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Media companies longing to bring a paid-for culture to the Internet might just get what they want if they pay more attention to the smartphone revolution that is changing the way people access the Web. Huge numbers now use mobile phones instead of desktop computers to get online — a development that has spawned whole […]

Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese Google.cn portal and to pull back from China, citing problems of censorship and a hacking attack from within the country. “I’m going to use […]

CIOs are more confident and eager to hire today than they have been in more than a year, according to latest data collected by staffing service Robert Half International. Security, cloud computing and virtualization projects are atop every technology executives’ to-do list, compelling enterprises to loosen up their IT payroll budgets. The survey found that […]

The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. “We are still dialoguing not just with Google, but with other Internet providers, to make […]

With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year. Mike Jones, who took over as co-president last month with Jason Hirschhorn, said that even within MySpace some employees have lost the will to keep fighting. “We are at the point now where […]

Separating hype from actuality in the cloud computing space can be daunting for even the most experienced and informed CIO. Whether it’s a matter of security, standards or utilization of capacity, enterprise companies are using trial and error to figure which data workloads and applications make the most sense in the cloud and which must […]

Google and No. 2 U.S. satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp are jointly testing a television programming search service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The paper said the service runs on TV set-top boxes which use elements of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android wireless operating system. It allows […]

Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week. DOM Partners LLC, a New Jersey lender that backed a 2006 purchase of the domain name for a reported $14 million, is foreclosing on the Internet property, and is due to auction it […]

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent of […]

Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said. “We have a lot of interest in the Windows 7 refresh,” Kevin Turner told an audience at the London School […]

Spanish police have arrested three men accused of masterminding one of the biggest computer crimes to date — infecting more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data. The men were suspected of running the Mariposa botnet, named after the Spanish word for butterfly, Spain’s Civil Guard said […]

Microsoft made its most vehement and public attack on Google on Friday, calling its Internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google’s operations there. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is […]