Google has long dabbled in the clean energy business. Now the company is investing in the generation of green power. On Monday, Google said that it invested $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms built by NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of the FPL Group, a $16 billion electricity company based in Florida. Google’s investment represents a minority interest in a $190 million round of financing fo ...

For much of this decade, the fates of Palm and Motorola  were intertwined. Both were early innovators in the mobile phone industry, but neither had had a hit in years. Motorola, which had invented cellphones and found great success with the Razr, and Palm, which pioneered the hand-held computer category, watched more nimble competitors lure away consumers with flashier, sleeker and more functional smartphon ...

At its f8 developers' conference in San Francisco last week, Facebook  CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented his vision of a cross-site social platform whose developmental state may already be quite far along. Essentially, he sees a kind of online social sphere wherein anything one communicates that he likes gets channeled to Facebook, where that like becomes a public fact. "Today, the Web exists mostly as a series ...

The credit card numbers of at least four Blippy customers appear to have found their way onto the fast-moving lanes of the information super-highway. According to VentureBeat, all numbers which appeared in a Google search appear to match Citibank-issued MasterCard numbers. Blippy credit card numbers found online"Today someone discovered a Google search that displays the credit card numbers of 4 Blippy users ...

Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s ...

The daily Web habits of a typical 18-year-old college student named Li Yufei show why American Internet companies, one after another, have had trouble penetrating what is now the world’s most wired nation. He writes a blog, downloads Korean television shows, manages two Web sites devoted to music and plays an online game called Rongguang Hospital, at Baidu.com. “I started doing a lot of this when I was abou ...

Google   on Friday announced that it's working on Google Cloud Print, a service that will let any application on any device print to any printer over the Internet. Instead of relying on the device's local operating system Manage and monitor your systems with Landscape for Ubuntu. Free 60 day Trial. and drivers to print a job, applications will use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google C ...

The personal computer was beginning to look like yesteryear’s gizmo, a technology relic overshadowed by smartphones, e-readers and, lately, Apple’s iPad. But the old beige box has proved remarkably resilient and relevant. The PC industry shrugged off the recession last year to post a surprising rise in worldwide computer sales. In a sign of the vibrancy of the market, companies like Google and Nokia — not t ...

Google   is rolling out an update to users of its Docs service allowing them to do more real-time collaborating and making a variety of speed and service enhancements. Elements of the update began rolling out Monday, with others scheduled to filter out to users over the next few days, according to Google. The update includes real-time collaboration on word documents, something previously available for sprea ...

For anyone thinking that the Google-China dynasty war would be resolved quickly -- and that mutual economic concerns would ultimately force both armies to ratchet down this uniquely 21-century cyberduel -- this was the week for the rudest of awakenings. The hacking hits just keep on coming in China. Google  announced that its Chinese search service encountered disruptions for most of Tuesday. The company sa ...