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Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:05:16 -0500

NEW YORK - Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi...

Gamers line up for 'Modern Warfare 2'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:49:35 -0500

LOS ANGELES - Ryan Norwalk had cleared his schedule. The 26-year-old college student was spending Tuesday gunning down foes in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,"...

Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:21 -0500

NEW YORK - The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially stealing the e-mail addresses...

Google to buy mobile ad network for $750 million

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:43:32 -0500

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones and other mobile gadgets. It has agreed to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for...

Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:03 -0500

NEW YORK - The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers...

Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:24:21 -0500

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Video game publisher Electronic Arts says it has acquired Playfish, a privately held company that makes social network games, for $275 million in cash. Electronic...

MIT offers cash for top clean energy idea

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:14:52 -0500

Two weeks after President Barack Obama encouraged energy innovation in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school is offering cash for the most groundbreaking...

State receives money for broadband mapping

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:30 -0500

Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years. Gov....

MIT offers $200G prize for best clean-energy idea

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:48 -0500

Two weeks after President Barack Obama encouraged energy innovation in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school is offering cash for the most ground-breaking...

MSN Web portal gets facelift

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:20:59 -0500

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's...

Best Buy embraces digital delivery of home video

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:19:20 -0500

SAN FRANCISCO - Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet...

Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:18:37 -0500

NEW YORK - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to...

Google sees rapid growth in Cambridge

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:53:57 -0500

Google Inc., the king of Internet search, is getting some useful results from its employees in the Hub and expects to expand soon. "We like the vibe and the feeling...

Google gives digital music searching an iTune-up

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:51:59 -0500

If you had searched Google for "Lady Gaga Poker Face" last month, the results would have been the usual: links to pop-up-infested lyrics sites, a few videos and...

Google providing better view of personal data

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:28:06 -0500

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them. The "Dashboard"...