Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and showed off a new technology, near-field communication, that he hopes will replace credit cards.
Paul Buchheit is leaving Facebook to join tech startup investor Y Combinator. He is the man who created FriendFeed, Gmail, AdSense, and Google's slogan "Don't be evil."
China has broken the record for computing speed, creating a supercomputer that calculates at 2.57 petaflops. Now the U.S. is working on two 20 petaflop supercomputers.
YouTube showed off a new test feature that auto categorizes all of its videos as well as YouTube Remote, an Android app that allows users to control the Google TV YouTube app from a phone.
In light of the FireSheep controversy, Digital Society has conducted a study that explains key vulnerabilities in Twitter, Facebook, Hotmail, Flickr, and other popular websites.
Google is planning a Nexus Two, this time built by Samsung. The device will run a pure version of Android 3.0 Gingerbread and have a front-facing camera.
Thanks to strong sales of its Droid devices, Motorola's phone division posted its first profits since 2006 when its Razr handsets were still all the rage.
Beginning today, Microsoft's adCenter platform will now power Bing and Yahoo search results, fully unifying the two search engines under a deal that began in 2009.