• Online piracy legislation outcry prompts White House response

  By Christina DesMarais | 16 January, 2012 03:33

  Online piracy legislation has caused such an outcry that the White House is now weighing in.

• Google offers gripping view of Japanese devastation via Street View

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 14 December, 2011 04:21

  The cataclysmic damage caused by the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan in March has been powerfully captured through 360-degree panoramic photography at Google Street View.

• Will Google roll out its music store this week?

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 12 November, 2011 11:01

  Google is planning a mystery event on Wednesday - could it be the announcement of Google's entry into the online music business?

• Privacy: Will Facebook ever get it?

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 12 November, 2011 05:57

  With Facebook reportedly close to cutting a deal with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over privacy sins dating back to 2009, the question remains whether or not the social network's brain trust really gets the privacy issue.

• Google Maps provides street view-look at store interiors

  By Ian Paul | 28 October, 2011 03:27

  Google Maps is moving you off the street and inside local businesses with a new feature called Business Photos that shows you 360-degree images of store interiors using Street View technology. Business Photos lets you peek inside select stores in 10 U.S. cities and surrounding areas including Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington, D.C. The new feature is also available in Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand and the U.K.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• The web is dead. Who cares?

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 19 August, 2010 03:20

  No doubt many netizens of cyberspace were surprised to hear this week that the World Wide Web is on death's doorstep while the Internet is alive and well and ready to be the platform for an electronic Camelot. That's because for many folks the Web and the Net are synonymous. They use the words interchangeably in their daily lives, and they're likely to continue using them that way even if the prediction of the Web's fade from glory becomes a reality.

• Ways to share spare CPU cycles

  By Ian Paul | 16 August, 2010 03:15

  A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause.

• Google Wave flops: What Google service will go next?

  By Liane Cassavoy | 06 August, 2010 04:17

  Let's pause for a moment of silence to remember Google Wave, a service that has gone off to greener pastures. Google confirmed the news late yesterday, saying the service hadn't seen the type of user adoption it had been hoping for.

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