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NewsFactor - Skype is offering its Voice over Internet Protocol service to Android and Java-enabled mobile phones, and to Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). This is the first time the software has been released for mobile users in the U.S.

Until recently, internet search engines have relied solely on text to generate results. When you search for videos on YouTube, your results are all based on the text of...

gandhi_2 writes with this excerpt from the SF Chronicle: 'A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a local artist over negative reviews published on Yelp, the popular Web site that rates businesses. Christopher Norberg, 26, of San Francisco posted the first review in November 2007 after visiting Steven Biegel at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing practices and said the chiropractor was being dishonest with insurance companies. ...The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free speech online, is considering helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman, an attorney with the group, said Biegel will get far more negative publicity from filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the foundation is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because they're unhappy with postings on the Internet.' of this story at Slashdot.

Samsung Electronics Co. announced today that it has developed a 2.5-in., 100GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive with enhanced performance for use in servers running applications such as video-on-demand, Internet data centers and online transaction processing. Like other high-performance, enterprise-...

Skype, which brought cheap and free calls to the Internet, is doing the same for cell phones, announcing support for Google's Android. The Web-based voice and text service, a unit of auction giant eBay, is bringing its Internet communications software to cell phones. The new 'lite' version of Skype can be downloaded for free to more than 100 models of Java-enabled cell phones or those using Google's open-source Android platform. The 'lite' version can make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost ...

Launch2net, nova media's software for mobile Internet device configuration, now supports additional USB modems.

paleshadows writes 'The Times Online reports that researchers claim that each query submitted to Google has a quantifiable impact. Specifically, two queries performed through a desktop computer generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a cup of tea. From the article: 'While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 [whereas] boiling a kettle generates about 15g [...] Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centers. However, with more than 200m Internet searches estimated daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the Internet is provoking concern. A recent report [argues that] the global IT industry generate[s] as much greenhouse gas as the world's airlines — about 2% of global CO2 emissions.'' Google makes an interesting focus for such claims, but similar extrapo

U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama laid out his plan for a huge economic stimulus package, with broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart energy grid and computers for schools as part of the plan.

nova media announced the immediate availability of launch2net 1.8.8 on Friday. The update for the mobile Internet connection application added support for USB-based modems from ZTE.