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San Francisco - Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite. Google on Monday updated its popular mapping software Google Earth with a complete map of...

The City of Los Angeles faces worries about privacy and security as it considers moving to google apps.

Microsoft and Yahoo's potential deal over search and advertising got public approval from investor Carl Icahn, who owns around 5 percent of Yahoo. Despite Microsofts massive push in support of Bing, its new search engine, analysts feel that a search and advertising deal between microsoft and Yahoo could create a viable competitor to Google, whose model currently dominates the space. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has reportedly held discussions with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz over a number of issues in the past. - If Microsoft and Yahoo are indeed negotiating over a search or advertising partnership, then they have an advocate in the form of prominent investor Carl Icahn. quot;I've been a strong advocate of getting a search deal done with microsoft, quot; Icahn told Reuters in an interview on July 1...

The fledgling Google Voice program and microsoft's latest bid to compete with Apple through physical stores are highlights of this week's installment of All Tech Considered. Omar Gallaga, technology culture reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, offers his insight.

For the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Google added panoramic pictures of the moon, video and stories to its Google Earth application.

Google merely facilitates access to content but isn't actually a publisher liable for it, a High Court judge rules.

RingCentral leverages the cloud computing model to offer a Web-based phone system for SMBS as an alternative to traditional phone carriers such as AT T and newcomers such as Google Voice or Ifbyphone. RingCentral Office costs $99.99 per month for up to four users and includes several of the bells and whistles business users have come to associate with traditional phone and fax services. - Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications which lets consumers leverage the Web as a medium for voice communications, but you don't tend to hear a lot about business phone systems living entirely in the cloud. RingCentral hopes to change that with the introduction of...

News Analysis: internet explorer might be the top browser in the enterprise, but should it hold the top spot? Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome outshine the microsoft browser in terms of innovation. Here are 10 of the factors that might make some users want to switch to the competition. - microsoft's Internet Explorer has been the lightning rod for controversy as of late. The software giant has been facing intense pressure from the European Union to not bundle its browser with Windows 7 when it's released later this year. Opera software has continued pelting Microsoft about its p...

Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search resultsGoogle is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and forums displayed in its search results, a high court judge in London has concluded in a landmark ruling for UK defamation law.The case, against Google's US and UK operations, had been brought by London-based Metropolitan International Schools.MIS runs distance learning courses in games development under the name Train2Game. MIS launched legal action over comments on the forum of a website that it claimed were defamatory and that appeared in Google's search results.The company claimed that Google was liable as a publisher of defamatory comments. Google responded that it has no responsibility for the words and comments.Mr Justice Eady ruled in a judgment in the high court on Friday that Google was a 'facilitator' and not a publisher of the content.'When a snippet is thrown up on the user's screen in

An anonymous reader writes 'I have just moved overseas on a 2-year working holiday visa and so I picked up a netbook for the interim, an MSI Wind U100 Plus running WinXP. I love it to bits. But as I am travelling around I am somewhat worried about theft. Most of my important stuff is in Gmail and Google Docs; however, I don't always have Net access and find it useful to gear up the offline versions for both. Ideally I would like to securely delete all the offline data from the hard drive if it were stolen. Since it is backed up in the cloud, and the netbook is so cheap I don't really care about recovery, a solution that bricks it would be fine — and indeed would give me a warm glow knowing a prospective thief would have wasted their time. But it's not good if they can extract the HD and get at the data some other way. All thief-foiling suggestions are welcome be they software, hardware, or other.' of this story at Slashdot.