Wireless

The juxtaposition between location-based services, privacy and law enforcement is bringing up new questions about how industry and individuals collect and use information, who should have access to it and …

A spat over data privacy that has been rumbling on between social network Facebook and search giant Google has today erupted into a Tom Clancy-esque game of subterfuge, after The Daily Beast pinned down the source of anti-Google stories planted in the press as none other than Mark Zuckerberg’s baby.

The fourth annual Austin Innovators and Entrepreneur Series (AIES) will take place on Wednesday, May 18, with the addition of IBM Corp.’s global startup event known as SmartCamp. IBM’s event …

While e-readers may contain thousands of volumes of books on a single, portable device and allows users to download new titles wirelessly from wherever they are, to many it feels …

The world’s tech press, fickle bunch that they are, have moved on from bashing Sony over the continued outage of the company’s Playstation Network and Qriocity services, and are currently drooling over Google’s latest and greatest at the I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.

Google just wrapped up its Chrome keynote at I/O 2011, during which SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai and Co. revealed some of the details surrounding the long-overdue launch of Chrome OS, including some pretty attractive pricing for enterprise and education users.

Around this time yesterday we were just starting to hear rumblings about what the launch of Google Music would entail – and they were spot on. The service was debuted as predicted, with all the rumoured features and functionality. We point this out because, 24 hours later, another interesting, and completely plausible, rumour has surfaced courtesy of a story in Forbes.

The Hindu | May 10, 2011 | Bharti Airtel has launched its mCommerce service “airtel money” in Chennai. Following its launch in Gurgaon (National Capital Region) earlier this year, Airtel …

Hotels.com, a Dallas-based hotel booking service and website, announced the launch of the company’s first mobile apps for the Android and iPhone platforms today. The new apps offer users the …

A few weeks ago Google lifted the lid on its next social effort, and its answer to Facebook’s “Like”, the +1 button. The functionality is simple – a small +1 icon appears next to search results and embedded in pages for you to press if you think the content is useful or noteworthy. The wider implications, however, could be far more meaningful.

A persistent rumor over the past months has pertained to Google having a music service in the works, and today those rumors were proved true, with a live beta service …

Early this morning Microsoft went official with news that has been rumoured for the last 24 hours – they have saved up their pocket money and are using it to buy Skype, the ubiquitous VoIP service, for a cool $8.5 billion. Other suitors such as Facebook and Google has also been in the mix, but it would seem Microsoft have reached deepest in order to secure the deal.

Well, Google I/O week is officially underway. We mused what might be shown yesterday evening, but it would seem Google can’t even keep it in their pants until the event is open to attendees.