Google on Thursday expanded a flu-tracking tool to include 16 more countries, analyzing local patterns in search queries to determine the spread of the influenza.
Japan, Russia, and much of Europe are now included at Google Flu Trends. The California Internet powerhouse has also made information available online at google.org/flutrends/ available in 37 languages. “Flu is [...]
Phone giant AT&T sees big opportunity in building its own applications.
The phone company Wednesday announced it’s buying privately held Plusmo for an undisclosed sum to help it build widgets and apps for mobile phones, PCs, and TV. Details of the transaction were not available.
Plusmo builds applications and widgets for mobile phones. But because it uses [...]
Every cell phone tower includes scheduling software that decides how fast e-mails, videos, and photos flow to and from wireless gadgets. Today these schedulers are programmed, at least in part, to make sure that the most profitable Internet traffic moves along at a fast clip. But under forthcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Net neutrality” regulations, [...]
SEATTLE – The value of the compensation package granted to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer fell about 6 percent in fiscal 2009, a year in which weak computer sales cut into the software maker’s profits.
Ballmer received a pay package valued at $1.28 million for the year that ended in June, according to an Associated Press [...]
Yahoo on Tuesday released version 3 of its Yahoo User Interface library, a software collection programmers can use to endow Web sites with fancy user interface elements written in JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.
“YUI 3’s core infrastructure and its utility suite are all considered production-ready with today’s release,” Yahoo’s Eric Miraglia said in a blog [...]
Dell Inc. said Monday it will beef up accounting and corporate governance rules as part of a settlement tied to an investigation into its past financial practices.
Dell, the world’s second largest PC maker behind Hewlett-Packard Co., will also pay $1.75 million in legal fees, according to a settlement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
After [...]
Earlier this month the company was said to be raising $50m of new capital, but has faced strong demand from investors keen to take part in this third round of funding.
The Wall Street Journal reported that new investors are expected to include mutual-fund giant T. Rowe [...]
Google Docs‘ summer interns this summer were tasked with working on improvements and additions to the service geared toward students.
The results of their work, now available to try out, include new features such as an equation editor, superscripts and subscripts, document translation, improvements to surveys, and more outlining options
While none of these features is groundbreaking [...]
As Google and Microsoft battle for dominance in technology, a skirmish in Los Angeles City Hall is offering a rare public glimpse into a rivalry that could help determine the fortunes of both companies — and, quite possibly, how workers in the future will communicate.
The two tech giants are clashing over a $7.25-million contract to [...]
WASHINGTON – There is no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer.
Yet when a Senate committee was exploring ways to secure computer networks, a provision to give the president the power to shut down Internet traffic to compromised Web sites in an emergency set off alarms.
Corporate leaders and [...]
