Information Technology
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Court orders Google to help developer ID critics
Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A resort developer has obtained a court order requiring Google Inc. to help uncover the identities of anonymous contributors to an online newspa...
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Oak Brook data center expands, plans to hire more workersSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Washington, D.C.-based Latisys has three data centers nationwide, including one in Oak Brook that is in the midst of a major expansion for both its physical plant and it...
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Court: Microsoft OK to sell Word during appeal
Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- The U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit says Microsoft Corp. can keep selling its Word desktop software as it appeals an unfavorable patent ruling. In...
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Marketing company sells clients Facebook friends
Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- On Facebook, most people make friends the old-fashioned way -- by sending a request to be added to someone's posse of pals. Now, an Australian marketin...
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Tweet for hire: More big businesses hire tweeters
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - People around the world interact with Alecia Dantico all day. Usually, though, they don't know whether she's young or old, male or female. What her followers on Facebook...
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Sprint to start selling phone with Google software
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is releasing a phone sporting Google Inc.'s Android software on Oct. 11. That would make Sprint the second U.S. carrier to get on board w...
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Judge gives ex-Monster exec 2 years in prison
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The former president and chief operating officer of the online job services company Monster Worldwide has been sentenced in New York to two years in prison f...
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Amazon.com makes its case against Google book deal
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Online bookseller Amazon.com Inc. is warning a federal judge that Internet search leader Google Inc. will be able to gouge consumers and stifle competi...
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Nokia to branch out with more phones, netbook
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - STUTTGART, Germany -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest maker of cell phones, unveiled new models Wednesday that boast more music features and mesh better with Facebook a...
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Sources: YouTube may offer online movie rentals
Sep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar...