Emerging Technology News

Bing is now the thirteenth most visited site on the Web. It has a long way to go before it beats Google and has yet to overtake Yahoo, but since its release Bing.com had more visitors than Digg, Twitter or CNN.

OK, dear readers, first things first: If you want to pitch your next-big-thing idea to Silicon Valley uber-geek Marc Andreessen, you don't have to e-mail or phone me first.

Bell Canada wants to reach more young people and tech-savvy consumers with its newly acquired The Source electronics stores that will sell Virgin Mobile phones and offer services like the Internet.

Google's decision to build a PC operating system could be a master stroke or a colossal blunder, depending on whether the company has the resources that such an ambitious and long-term undertaking will require.

NanoBio CEO James Baker has positioned the company to survive at least two years with cash on hand.

Following Google's announcement it's joining the OS party, Renai LeMay asks, has the search giant got what it takes to fully embrace open source? Google's revelation today that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide: "Not another Linux distribution." They'll say this because ...

U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton , who presides over the southern district of New York, dismissedA some of the claims for damages in Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google .

The big news out this week in the venture capital market is the launch of Andreessen Horowitz , a new $300 million venture capital fund co-founded by Marc Andreeseen, a tech visionary who founded Netscape Communications, the startup that triggered the Internet tsunami.

If you thought a $99 Netbook was a bargain, Sprint Nextel's plan to sell Netbooks for a buck is a real steal.

Sony has introduced a new netbook, the Vaio W , and unlike their Vaio P , they actually intend on calling it such.

Google's charming refusal to take the "beta" label off web applications like Gmail and Google Docs has become something of a joke.

The brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in southern China was scarcely covered by state media, but accounts and photos spread quickly via the Internet and became a spark that helped ignite deadly riots thousands of miles away in the Uighur homeland.

There was a great deal of coverage yesterday about Google adding new capabilities to enable users to search for properties on Google Maps.

Job seekers line up for a career fair, last Thursday in Oak Brook, Illinois. 12 warning signs 1. The job offers very high pay, often including pledges that the income will generate itself.

There are just a handful of names when it comes to reliable GPS navigation technology, and Magellan ranks as one of them.

Much to the despair of old-school librarians, web search has become the default first stop when most people do research.

Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are 10 of the most common and the realities that bust them: 1. It takes a lot of money to finance a new business.

Is Facebook a phenomenon or a fad? Even as it has grown to more than 200 million users and become the global leader in social networking Web sites, many people see it as just a nifty way for people to share information and images among far-flung friends and acquaintances.

Google becomes the latest member to the Cloud Outage club , with a near 6 hour outage rendering the whole infrastructure completely off line.

Location, location, location ... Google has released their Australian developed real estate search that allows potential buyers a chance to scope out properties on the market.