Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company’s executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system… Tweet This Post

Despite the stagnation of book, music and DVD sales, Amazon.com is gaining momentum as a retailer of almost every other kind of product, as I report in an article in Sunday’s Business section… Tweet This Post

Stepping up an effort to unmask online attackers responsible for a wave of malicious advertisements aimed at Windows PC users, Microsoft on Thursday filed suit in Washington state Superior Court against the unknown individuals behind five companies that it alleges distributed “malvertising” that entangled its customers in fake-antivirus scams and infected them with other malicious [...]

On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, unveiled Apps.Gov, a Web site where federal agencies will able to buy so-called cloud computing applications and services that have been approved by the government to replace more costly and cumbersome computing services at their own locations… Tweet This Post

Google’s dominance of the Internet in the United States is hard to overstate. The company accounts for two-thirds of all Web searches, it owns YouTube, which is 10 times more popular than its nearest competitor, and it is No. 1 in areas like maps and blogging. Overall, U.S. Internet users spend 9 percent of their [...]

The Motorola Cliq is a provocative telephone, and that’s the best thing about it. When the phone, announced last week makes it into T-Mobile stores, most people who pick it up will look at its ever-changing, multi-layered home screen, and drop it quickly, alienated and confused… Tweet This Post

Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on Monday, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. Among other changes, the chip maker will announce that Pat Gelsinger, the senior vice president in charge of Intel’s enterprise group, is leaving Intel after 30 years in a variety of roles, these people said. Tweet [...]

Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, discussed his health and Apple’s new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here… Tweet This Post

Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, discussed his health and Apple’s new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here… Tweet This Post

SAN FRANCISCO — After a flurry of last-minute filings on Tuesday, a federal judge must now begin untangling the mountain of competing claims about how a legal settlement granting Google the right to create the world’s largest digital library and bookstore would affect competition, authors’ rights and readers’ privacy… Tweet This Post