Talk about an iron grip on search. To research this column comparing Google’s venerable search engine with Microsoft’s upstart Bing, I Googled “Bing versus Google.” It didn’t even occur to me to Bing the search. In a nutshell, that’s Microsoft’s problem. The...

Vice President Joe Biden outlined a $4.7 billion loan and grant program Wednesday to develop the infrastructure needed to deliver broadband, or high-speed, Internet access to areas that are underserved or without access. America lags behind more than a dozen other countries in terms of Internet access...

In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive. @font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to reference fonts not installed on end-user machines. Just as you...

One of the biggest news stories in years caught Microsoft’s Bing a little off guard. The flood of traffic on the Internet following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital last Thursday, where he later died, has been well documented: Google at first thought the surge...

Google has been sued again by a company mad over the use of its trademarks as keywords, but this one comes with a twist. Ascentive , the company behind those incessant “Finally Fast!” PC support ads , became the latest Google advertiser to sue the company for allowing advertisers to purchase...

Internet users in China celebrated the government’s about-face on the Green Dam Web-filtering software with a party Wednesday in a Beijing caf. The event was originally planned to coincide with an Internet boycott planned for the day China had mandated that all new PCs sold in China must have Green...

The United States and Russia are locked in a fundamental dispute over how to counter the growing threat of cyberwar attacks that could wreak havoc on computer systems and the Internet. Both nations agree that cyberspace is an emerging battleground. The two sides are expected to address the subject when...

More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, Social Security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through airport security is out of business. Government officials are wondering too. The sudden shutdown of...

Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, has agreed to acquire The Pirate Bay video-sharing Web site — whose owners are under fire for brokering copyrighted content — for nearly $7.8 million. Pirate Bay is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Internet. The site has...

Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout — with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year. Called Comcast High-Speed 2go, the...

Dell engineers are developing a pocket-sized, Internet-connected device that will use the Google-backed Android mobile operating system, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the company’s plans,” said two people who have seen prototypes described...

A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser’s success opened the door for a host of its other competitors. Even as Internet Explorer’s market share has slipped–down a dramatic 8 percentage points to 65.5 percent in about the...