Facebook was caught red-handed last week being socially unfriendly to Google, its Silicon Valley competitor. It hired a public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google’s privacy policies, and then it tried to hide its involvement in the whisper campaign. This is ironic, considering that Facebook is all about getting people to disclose everything [...]

It is less than a fortnight since six people were killed and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords terribly injured in a shooting spree in Arizona, USA.But the Tucson massacre has done nothing to deter the 16,000 expected to attend the 33rd National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade convention in Las Vegas, reports Daily Mail, [...]

Beijing, Jan 18: China today officially launched its state-run mapping website that rivals Google Earth, showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in Jammu and Kashmir — two key areas of dispute with India — as part of its territory. The map called ‘Map World’ displayed on the Internet in Chinese language is already being used [...]

The latest wave of upcoming changes to the world’s two most used Web browsers, jointly responsible for easily three-fourths of the Internet’s HTTP requests, has nearly everyone in the business rethinking the meaning of “quality” as it pertains to browser architecture. While their arguments start with the usual reminders that folks just want to see [...]

By ROB PEGORARO Sunday, September 5, 2010; G03 I was traveling last week to cover Apple’s iPod and Apple TV event Wednesday (and writing an extra column based on that). So this week, I offer questions taken from Friday’s Web chat.   The iPad’s future Concerning the iPad, will the projected update in OS include [...]