A mobile search app for the iPhone was expected to be released Friday but, as of Saturday, is still unavailable. Has it been bogged down by App Store red tape?

Alan Ashton kept a low profile during his days as part of the triumvirate running WordPerfect. But he dug into his deep pockets to help decide a highly charged vote in California on November 4.

Social-networking company pulls several pages following complaints from European regulators that the pages promoted violence against gypsies.

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Plug it in and let it go-new wastewater treatment system to clean-up after troops.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Patient Privacy Rights worry that Google Flu Trends may be privacy-invasive and urge Google CEO Eric Schmidt to reveal more information.

CNET scours the exhibit floor of the San Francisco Green Festival for the latest green innovations in home design.

At the Under the Radar confab, a panel of U.S. wireless carrier representatives justify closed systems.

The space agency will begin using new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyze problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs.

Hewlett-Packard's broad price range and product lineup could keep the tech giant rolling while others suffer.

Want to watch streaming Web shows on your desktop without using your browser? Check out StreamDesk--a cross-platform channel viewer that makes it ridiculously simple.

At first glance, KidZui seems a bit like a kiddified Flock, a Web browser with social networking rolled in. In fact, KidZui is anything but a standard kids' browser, and what makes it so unique is precisely why it's such a safe tool for children.

The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama announces several more agency review team leaders, including those who will head up the reviewal process of the FCC.

How Apple's iPhone is making inroads in corporate IT; Sun lays off thousands of employees; and Barack Obama brings the presidential address into the 21st century.

A high-end video camera maker is expanding into hybrid still and video cameras. But will pro photographers take to cinematography?

A newly hired Apple exec barred by a federal judge from working at the California computer maker has countersued IBM, his former employer, arguing that a non-competition deal he signed is unenforceable and too broadly written.

Intel began sales of its high-end Core i7 desktop chips in Tokyo late Saturday night, bringing to market a series of processors that are significantly more powerful than any of the company's current desktop products.

Confirming recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, an independent study has found OpenOffice.org to be five times more popular among adult U.S. internet users than Google Docs.

The new layoffs and internal changes announced by Sun make it clear that the company is banking on its open-source strategy to help it survive the economic downturn.

Google has patched its Chrome browser to prevent attackers from stealing files from PCs running the open-source app.

Nokia warned that fewer mobile phones will sell this year than expected but said it is confident that demand for smart phones will continue.

Right now, I'm logging onto AIM, chatting with friends and copying YouTube videos. I should be writing my column. So why am I admitting anything? Because nobody will catch me. I hope.

The economic decline that has already hit the housing and financial services sectors is now closing in on the high-tech industry; today's job cut announcement from Sun is only the latest in a string of recent layoff plans to affect IT firms.

A federal judge this week ordered IBM, which hopes to block a former company executive from taking a job at Apple, to provide a $3 million bond to keep the case going.

What stood out most about the N10, aside from its stylish casing and hefty price tag, was its larger keyboard, which includes a nice sized trackpad with left and right click buttons at the bottom of the pad.

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The problems that made open source code impractical for many businesses are falling away. Add in the 'cheaper' factor, and this should get interesting.

Count on Linux continuing to expand to fill 'new ecological niches.'

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It's shown a commitment. Can it get the sales?

With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.

Drupal conquers new territory in content management for the Web, while Alfresco makes collaboration and interoperability the keystones of its enterprise content management platform.

New tools cost less and handle tasks with ease, but commercial players are easier to use.

Staff expertise is needed, because installation and support can be an adventure.

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Enomaly makes it possible to create cloud-like environments in corporate data centers.

Don't be dragged kicking and screaming onto the emerging business technology campus.

He advises aspiring tech leaders to take calculated risks and step outside their comfort zone.

The chipmaker differentiates its Yukon strategy from Intel's Atom processor line by targeting ultraportables and not netbooks/mini-notebooks.

The problem started Nov. 9 when AVG released a virus signature update that misidentified the user32.dll file, a core Windows XP file, as a Trojan.

AP - Movie studio executives on Friday presented the best-case scenario for a winter holiday surge in the purchase of high-definition Blu-ray players as their best hope to keep the U.S. home video market's decline from accelerating past 3 percent or 4 percent this year.

AP - The economic downturn might be pushing Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the storied names in computing, to the brink of extinction.

AP - Many of the problems facing Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are of its own making. But the limited choices the chip maker has for solving its troubles are symptoms of an affliction sweeping through Silicon Valley.

AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that briefly used it.

CNET - Reporters were put into a frenzy this week when Google announced it was set to launch version two of its mobile search application for the iPhone which included the addition of voice-powered search, allowing you skip the keyboard altogether. But now the question is, where is it?

CNET - Facebook pulled several Italian neo-Nazi pages from its Web site following a public outcry and complaints from European regulators that the pages promoted violence against gypsies.

NewsFactor - Google is pushing its voice-recognition technology to Apple's iPhone first, before devices running its own Android mobile platform.

Reuters - Top handset maker Nokia Oyj said on Friday the world's mobile phone market would fall in the fourth quarter and next year as an economic slowdown crimps consumer demand around the world.

CNET - When the Space Shuttle Endeavour launches Friday afternoon, assuming it is not delayed, the astronauts onboard and the technicians on the ground at mission control will have at their disposal new software that could streamline the process of problem reporting and analysis.

AFP - Microsoft, which has made billions of dollars selling packaged software, has opened its first online store in the United States offering its ubiquitous programs for downloading.

AP - SUN DOWN: Still not fully recovered from the dot-com bust eight years ago, Sun Microsystems Inc. is being walloped by this economic downturn. In response the company plans to cut as many as 6,000 jobs — 18 percent of its work force.

AP - Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. declined Friday after October's video game retail sales report from the NPD Group showed a disappointing performance in the music genre.