Google reported second-quarter revenue on Thursday of US$5.52 billion, a modest 3 percent increase from a year earlier but still ahead of analyst estimates. Net income excluding one-time charges was ...

Microsoft recently announced that its next Office suite will have a free online counterpart. It also just released Silverlight 3.0, which competes directly with Adobe Flash. While each of these ...

Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin. Shareholders holding about 62 percent of Sun's stock voted in favor of the ...

The long-awaited Palm Mojo Software Development Kit, for building applications for the Palm Pre device and the webOS platform, is now generally available, a Palm blogger said on Thursday. The kit is ...

The Symbian Foundation plans to launch a publishing platform later this year aimed at helping developers to get their programs into mobile application stores. Unlike some of the other popular ...

Provincial Chinese police have detained at least five people over content posted online that alleged gang-rape and murder at a police-backed brothel. The detentions add to a long string of cases in ...

The H-1B visa and Permanent Residency Card, or green card, programs are under a new assault, and not from its usual opponents in Congress and elsewhere, according to immigration attorneys. The ...

PC shipments were slightly stronger than expected in the second quarter, propped up by consumer spending and lower prices, according to IDC research released on Wednesday. Strong interest in ...

The latest iTunes update, version 8.2.1, may offer up a few bug fixes, but its real purpose is to prevent the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes. The move isn't a surprise. Last month, Apple warned ...

Microsoft Corp. this week announced a pair of enterprise software licensing bundles that one analyst said could save money and time for the company's loyal customers. Unveiled during the Worldwide ...

A hacker has reportedly obtained and distributed more than 300 confidential documents pertaining to Twitter's business affairs. The documents were reportedly stored on Google Apps.  The hacker ...

Microsoft's European online store crashed today under the load from customers eager to grab discounted copies of Windows 7. During the outage, the site displayed a message that said, "Due to the ...

Ever wonder what your co-worker or friend is doing online? The Nielsen Company has a pretty good idea what they're up to. Nielsen Online reported this week that people spend more time on Facebook ...

Small and medium-sized businesses have more important things to worry about than Microsoft's new Azure, a cloud-resident platform for building applications served to users online. SMBs are more ...

Google Voice is headed for Blackberry and Android handsets, potentially turning smart phones into your hub for managing voice mail, all your contacts, and making low-cost phone calls, according to ...