AP – Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can’t stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.
AP – The race to build a smarter electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities.
AP – A Boston jury has begun deliberating in the civil trial of a Boston University graduate student who was sued by four major recording labels over illegally downloading and sharing music.
AP – Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider hearkening back to a conclusion the company’s co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.
AP – Helped by deep cost cuts, Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted an unexpected profit for the second quarter after several quarters of losses, and said it expected things to keep improving this year.
AP – Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet’s second most popular search engine and join it in a daunting battle — taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market.
AP – Is Microsoft’s Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking through to them.
AP – The Internet search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo faces a tough antitrust review in the U.S. and overseas, with approval likely hinging on whether the marriage would foster more competition with market leader Google.
AP – Less than a year after T-Mobile and HTC released the first smart phone using Google’s Android operating system, the wireless operator and the handset maker are back with a sleeker device that takes advantage of recent software updates.
PC World – Yahoo’s announcement of a 10-year deal with Microsoft did not mention Google, but we all know what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was talking about in her blog post aimed at users.