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Google launches its own web browser

Google is set to introduce on Tuesday a new web browser designed to handle more quickly video-rich or other complex web programs.

YouTube court order fans privacy fears

A United States judge’s order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom has sparked an outcry from privacy advocates.

Next Microsoft operating system has touch controls

Microsoft plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touch screen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said on…

Google releases Google Health for medical records

Google on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated United States health information service that combines the leading web company’s classic search services with a user’s…

Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool

Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established web-search…

Yahoo! to expand data sharing among friends online

Yahoo! is working to rewire the dozens of services across its site so that users can manage all information about themselves in a single place and share it with friends across…

‘Switch off, save planet’ message goes global

The Sydney Opera House to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge went dark as people switched off lights in their homes and skylines dimmed around the world on Saturday to show…

Who needs IT experts? Workers take control

Savvy office workers frustrated that their on-the-job computer tools don’t function as smoothly as, say, an Apple iPod are taking matters into their own hands. No longer are they…

SA web users flock to local news site

<i>News24</i>, the breaking news service in the 24.com stable, has become South Africa’s first website to record more than one million unique South African visitors in a month.…

Google aims for renewable energy priced below coal

Google said on Tuesday it plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help drive down the cost of electricity made from renewable energy below the price of coal. The…

Kalahari.net scoops e-commerce award

Local online retailer Kalahari.net, a popular stop on the web for South Africans looking to buy especially CDs, books and DVDs, has been chosen as best e-commerce store of the…

Google launches ‘first truly open’ phone platform

Google on Monday spelled out long-rumoured plans to enter the cellphone market in 2008 by building software that could help the industry make the internet run more easily on…

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed web search service that would compete with search engines such…

‘Amateur’ charge infuriates blogosphere

Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley…

Wikipedia founder remakes web-publishing economics

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away — for free — all the software, computing, storage and network access that…

Google launches search service for computer code

Google is introducing a new search service — strictly for computer programmers only. The web search leader said late on Wednesday it is introducing Google Code Search, a site…