When speaking at the D6 Conference out in Carlsbad California, Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that Beacon was a big mistake. While I was personally a big critic of the system due to the inability to opt-in and the default setting of opt-out, I don’t think that Beacon was a horrendous idea. People want to let others [...]

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MySpace said it’s using Google’s Gears, software for augmenting Web browser abilities, to make the social-networking site easier to use.

When MySpace users go to their mailbox, they’ll be invited to install Google Gears, said Allen Hurff, MySpace’s senior vice president of engineering, in an appearance here Wednesday at the Google I/O conference. “It’s available to [...]

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Nearly three-fourths of U.S. cell phone users recently surveyed don’t want to ride in airplanes with passengers talking on phones.
The results dovetail with what several airlines have apparently decided already as they prepare to roll out wireless in-flight services such as e-mail, text and instant messaging access from user devices. Those services, however, apparently [...]

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Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information” over the Web, YouTube parent Google said in a legal response to the suit.

The response, reported by the Associated Press, was filed late Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Google says the threat comes from [...]

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Just because Google so obviously loves the idea of cloud computing, don’t think the company doesn’t care about what happens at the other end of the network connection, too.

As former President Bill Clinton used to say, there’s a third way: Google wants to improve technology on both the server in the cloud and on the [...]

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Just when you thought the landscape of social-networking developer APIs couldn’t get any more complicated, here comes another curveball.

Facebook will reportedly open-source the code for its application platform, according to TechCrunch. The announcement may be just days away.

Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

It makes sense to do it now: the Facebook [...]

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Remember the days when it meant you were a drug dealer if you were young and wearing a pager? The same thing went for cell phones at one point. Eventually everyone had one or the other and it became a normal thing to have. Email came about and at one point it became “uncool” to [...]

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Things are heating up again over Viacom’s one billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube. According to the BBC, Google’s lawyers have claimed that it “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information” over the web. On the other hand, Viacom claims that they’re protecting not only their copyright, but also the interests of [...]

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Last week, I apparently touched upon a nerve when I broached the topic of Google Death for using deceptive marketing practices.  There were a lot of interesting points made in the comments here at Mashable and elsewhere, as the debate continues to rage on.  In case you missed it, the brief history of the fake [...]

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Sometimes, there’s talk of a great new version for a popular site or application. Screenshots are shown, new features are analyzed in detail…and then, everyone forgets about it and the new version drags on forever. Of course, if it’s an app or service you use occasionally, it’s not really that important, but what about those [...]

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