Hindus want high-speed Internet access as a universal fundamental...

Where's Microsoft's Enterprise Tablet Offering? Microsoft could be a dominant player in enterprise handheld computing. If only it made a play for the...

Under renewed agreement, Google will provide AOL's search and advertising technology for five more years, with an expansion into mobile and video...

Vox will shut down at the end of September, the San Francisco-based company said in an announcement Friday. The company said it halted new membership on Thursday and would stop allowing new posts on...

Epiq Systems Inc. has wrapped up a $29.9 million share repurchase program, buying about 2.3 million shares. The board of the Kansas City, Kan., company (Nasdaq: EPIQ), which provides software and...

customers will pay an extra $1.74 a month on average for five years to help offset the costs of building two additional nuclear reactors at the utility’s Plant Vogtle. Those preliminary...

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said Friday, but the online retailer's fine was reduced. Between 2001 and 2006, counterfeit Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior products were sold by users...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a...

Wondering why you can't use Facebook to find your friends on Ping--Apple's new iTunes-based social network that supposedly connects to the social networking site? Turns out Apple and Facebook...

Consumer Watchdog, an anti-Google group, invaded Times Square with a 540-square-foot video cartoon of Google CEO Eric Schmidt frightening children -- and me -- with threats of infiltrating their...

, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software. Ping takes the "activity stream" format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are "talking...

THE DEAL: Under a new five-year agreement, Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites. The companies signed the deal this week. THE MONEY: AOL declined to give...

BERLIN—A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of...

Two people who were stopped for speeding near New Ulm Tuesday are now facing felony charges for allegedly running a check scam that spanned across several state lines. A Minnesota State Patrol...

Pilot error and the lack of proper warning equipment is being blamed for the 2008 crash of a University of Wisconsin Med Flight helicopter that killed three people. The National Transportation...

A Brooklyn Park man will serve more than five years in prison for robbing a credit union bank last year in Inver Grove Heights, a federal judge ruled this morning. Herman Wilson, 44, pleaded guilty...

A police drug-sniffing dog that went missing in Champlin has been found. The Anoka County sheriff's office says Sherman was found by a citizen this orning and returned to his handler. The...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed north to help Minnesota Republicans raise money with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a probable 2012 presidential candidate. Minnesota GOP spokesman Mark Drake confirmed...

has added $5.2 million in a new financing, according to a report published late Thursday. With the financing, part of a planned $10 million Series B round led by new venture capital investor...

Bruker Corp. , plans to go public with an initial public offering in which the superconducting technology company is looking to raise approximately $100 million. According to the form filed with...

Twitter 's follow feature, according to reports. VentureBeat and the blog All Facebook report that the feature, being tested with a small number of people, gives subscribers notifications of new...

first announced in July . As part of the acquisition, Verenium’s pilot plant and demonstration-scale facility in Jennings, La., is now owned by BP. BP also takes over the Cambridge...

National Institutes of Health for research and development on drugs used to treat cancer. The company was awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research grant for development...

announced that they are using a new Web-based system that will allow them to better coordinate fleet repairs and maintenance. Through a partnership with Virginia-based Decisiv Inc., Mack Trucks is...

Nanosys Inc. has opened a subsidiary in Korea to support its business in Asia. Palo Alto-based Nanosys uses nanotechnology to create materials with unique properties that enhance quality and...

has terminated its agreement to develop a potential brain cancer vaccine. Celldex said in a statement that Pfizer has decided that the program “is no longer a strategic priority”. The...

is giving more Spanish-language channel options to U-verse television customers in San Antonio and South Texas. The company has added 19 new Spanish-language channels to its AT&T U-verse TV...

Presbyterian SeniorCare topped this year's list of the 25 Largest Pittsburgh-area Elder Care Providers, with 3,193 area beds. The complete list of the 25 Largest Pittsburgh-area Elder Care...

BancVue Ltd. has acquired a credit portfolio that will more than double its client base. BancVue, founded in 2003, provides products, marketing and consulting to community financial institutions...

Apple launched iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network, on Wednesday. Within hours, the site fell victim to spammers looking to make a quick buck from Apple's unsuspecting 160...

VIENNA (AFP) – Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was named World Press Freedom Hero by media watchdog IPI on Friday, for her defiance of press restrictions and her commitment to free speech in her...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google-owned videosharing website YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year on revenue of 450 million dollars, The New York Times reported Friday. The newspaper, in...

It's the kind of ironic story that news editors find irresistible. Apple makes big announcement about a social network for music lovers. When music lovers go hunting for the service, they end up...

Behold the King of music, circa 2010. We aren't talking about Elvis here. Apple's iPod still reigns supreme. And judging from the impressive new crop of iPods announced this week along with...

Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices. Apple...

Mashable ) -- Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social...

NEW YORK—The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale. But isn't getting...

A federal appeals court has reinstated Wisconsin's controversial minimum markup law on gasoline. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of the Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers &...

Workers are struggling to pick up a larger share of the nation's expanding health care tab, and the burden now includes a bigger chunk of health insurance premium costs, too. The cost of family...

A longtime Minneapolis police officer from Oak Park Heights, who served as a school resource officer, has been accused of sexually abusing three young female relatives for more than a decade. On...

Mayor Chris Coleman has selected a trusted political adviser with prosecutorial experience to be St. Paul's next city attorney, he said Thursday. Sara Grewing, 33, who currently serves as Coleman's...

A psychological evaluation found the man who rammed his car into Mankato's Walmart in March didn't understand what he was doing, but a judge said Thursday he is granting a prosecutor's request for a...

GRANDIN, N.D. — The Traill County sheriff's office says a 16-year-old Minnesota boy was injured in an apparent accidental shooting at a rural home in eastern North Dakota. Sheriff Mike Crocker...

Remote users are on the increase worldwide but companies are not fully investing on security, says Sean Wainer Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. There is a worldwide increase in...

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has appointed two Kansas City-area representatives to the 16-member board for the Kansas Health Information Exchange Inc. Dr. Helen Connors, executive director of...

is expanding the company’s fiber-optic network in South Texas. The Houston-based provider of telecommunications and data center services will add transport and bandwidth service in McAllen,...

Reuters reports that the Mountain View search giant is in talks with music labels on plans for an online store and cloud service that would let users play songs without downloading them onto their...

Gov. Mark Parkinson appointed three Wichitans to serve as members of the Kansas Health Information Exchange Inc., a statewide data-sharing organization. Parkinson appointed 15 members total. Kansas...

clickjacking worms or other forms of aggressive malware, experts say. But if you're looking for links to bogus surveys promising free iPhones, iPads, and other assorted iDevices, then Ping in...

latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined. In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share, Linux was at...