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• IRemember 2.5 These days, we can view and share photos almost as fast as we can capture them. With a quick click of a button, your photos can be stored and sent to friends...
• Viviane Reding Picked to Re-write EU Data Protection Laws Viviane Reding has been picked to take charge of a re-write of Europe's 15 year-old data protection laws due to start next year.
• Get Real Business Results From Social Media Learn how to develop a social media marketing strategy that actually brings in revenue, and see how to measure your success.
• Chinese EBay Rival Branches out With Branded Mobile Phone China's biggest online auction and retail Web site, Taobao.com, plans to stamp its name on a new mobile phone, the brand's first foray into devices.
• Racist Image Tops Google Search Results for Michelle Obama A racist caricature is currently the top-ranked image of first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine.
• Free (and Some Not Free) Live Music I love live music. Well, music in general, but there’s something about the anything-can-happen vibe and the interaction with the audience of concerts that’s hard...
• Facebook Worm Spreads With a Lurid Lure Facebook was hit with a worm that infected users' profiles and then redirected them to pornography sites.
• Google to Buy Display Ad Company Google said it plans to buy display ad company Teracent for an undisclosed sum.
• Report: Microsoft May Pay News Corp. to Delist From Google Microsoft has held talks with News Corp. about paying the company to remove its news Web sites from Google's search listings.
• Underwhelmed By Chrome OS? That's Kinda the Point Google's newly unveiled operating system has many critics unimpressed, but Chrome OS is meant to be lean, fast, and simple, not flashy.
• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality UPDATE: Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
• Techies Gather for a Lunch to Save the World The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with...
• Judge Sets Schedule for Google Book Search Case The judge in the Google book search case has set a date in mid-February for the final settlement hearing.
• Alibaba Site With Own Search Engine May Outshine Yahoo China Alibaba Group, which owns Yahoo China, is increasingly adding features to retail site Taobao.com that the group formerly reserved for Yahoo.
• Sony's Hirai Hopes for Quick Start to Online Content Service Sony is hoping to launch its planned online content service early next year, the executive heading up the project said Friday.
• What Chrome OS Means for Business Chrome OS will be useful to road warriors and mobilistas on companion devices. But for most companies, it won't replace traditional desktop operating systems anytime in the near future.
• Global Video News Recap, World Tech Update Nov. 19 President Obama talks tech in China, Dell readies its smartphone, the EU shutters 54 Web sites and more.
• Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform's Success Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hyped the success of his company's cloud development platform on Thursday.
• Company Selling 'free' Web Auction Kits Settles With FTC A company that offered free Internet auction kits settles charges from the FTC that it then charged customers a monthly fee.
• Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed Google demonstrated for the first time its Google Chrome OS, a Web-centric operating system set to be officially released late 2010.
• Yahoo's Search News Shortcuts Gain 'tweets,' Videos, Photos Yahoo has enhanced the news "shortcuts" it displays in Web search result pages.
• AOL Looks to Slash Staff by a Third AOL is looking to cut by a third its global staff.
• Chinese Authors Turn up Heat on Google Over Book Scanning A Chinese authors' group late Wednesday demanded Google compensate writers whose books the U.S. company scanned without permission.
• Microsoft Makes Big Azure Announcements at PDC 2009 Analysis: Microsoft ups the cloud ante. Now will that dog hunt?