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Google's story that it's really, really, really not competing with Microsoft gets thinner by the day. Apparently , it's just bo...

23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information. Even though your body contai...

It's a bit rudimentary at the moment, but Google's new Timeline view for searches is quite entertaining . (Via Vecosys .)

One of the unsung heroines of the open source movement is Mitch Baker, whose official job title is " Chief Lizard Wrangler " - the...

Very interesting development here: Microsoft is starting to pursue Yahoo. This is completely logical: Microsoft is getting so utterly trou...

Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...

A criticism sometimes levelled at users of open source who make changes to the code but do not distribute it is that they don't give it ...

I'm terribly torn again. This brilliant piece of cyber-conjecture sounds *so* exciting. But do I trust Google enough to put my entire ...

A suprising post from Cult of the Dead Cow about Google and its role in the cultural genocide of the Tibetans : Ever since Google announced ...

This looks really cool : Web History: All the web sites you visit, at your fingertips. * View your web activity. * Search the full t...

Talking of Google's growing power : Once again ... the average person has NO idea they are now going to have even more records kept of ...

One consequence of Google's rather expensive acquisition of DoubleClick is that it turns the company from a search engine that sells ad...

It's easy to become apprehensive about the massive and growing power of Google. After all, its operating plan is essentially to know ev...

Most of this is just legal posturing , but the following paragraph is noteworthy: Intellectual property is worth $650 billion a year to the ...

Although I am not a great user of YouTube, I know a significant cultural/market shift when I see one. NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker and New...

It is a truth universally acknowlegded that there is only one thing more stupid than content producers suing little people with nothing in t...

I was deeply unimpressed when Amazon announced its Simple Storage Service ( S3 ), since I am not a developer, but the news that it is now ro...

For a while now, my daily desktop has been filled with almost nothing but Firefox windows, each of which contains a healthy/unhealthy half-d...

On Monday, Google finally came out with a beta version of its Blogger upgrade. God knows it's needed it: Blogger has fallen further an...

Google has launched an open source code repository, called, with stunning originality, Google Code . This is particularly good news, becaus...