What industry executives and commentators say about the future of file-sharing and streaming music.

AT&T and Verizon Communications lobbyists say they are fine with existing FCC open Internet principles becoming regulation, but they are opposed to proposed new rules.

Microsoft is hoping its new operating system will please customers more than its predecessor Vista.

roundup Software makers, social networks, and even hardware makers shake hands and link their products at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Apple said its net income rose 47 percent in the most recent quarter as more people bought Mac computers and gave in to the iPhone craze.

Uruguay has given computers to all of its primary school children as part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme.

New original content is high on Yahoo's priority list, and programs developed with advertisers in mind are low-risk and high reward--assuming they are halfway decent.

Implanting an electronic retina can help restore some vision to people who've been blinded by retinal diseases, scientists reported Tuesday at the Neuroscience 2009 conference. Other researchers partially restored sight by growing new retina cells from stem cells.

Less than three hours after Microsoft trumpeted a deal with Twitter for its Bing search engine, Google announced it would also track tweets. Neither compan disclosed what they're paying Titter for the privilege.

A new website will make reams of government data freely available for the first time.

The company has revamped and enhanced its virtual-goods marketplace so that a bigger variety of items, including music files, are for sale.

With the Nook, the nationwide bookseller has galloped into the world of electronic books, prepared to take on the Amazon Kindle.

Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.

About a third of Americans who have access to broadband choose not to subscribe. And the FCC is trying to figure out why.

Google, Ebay and Skype are among the big names to pledge support for a proposal to treat all internet traffic equally.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main telecom regulator said on Wednesday it will let Internet service providers slow or "throttle" traffic such as file-sharing that the companies say threatens to overwhelm their networks -- but only as a last resort.

Online criminals make millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-virus software, experts say.

The company is still in a phase of experimentation when it comes to payments and transactions on the social network's platform, Sheryl Sandberg says at the Web 2.0 Summit event.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have sealed separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google now dominates.

Some Web sites have a more basic design, one created purely for function. But as the Web evolves beyond mere function, is it possible that ads can help sites become more attractive?