AT&T hit a nerve with its privacy-eroding Internet Preferences Plan, which lets customers surf the web at gigabit speeds but also lets the telecom giant see what sites they visit in order to serve… Read more »
Microsoft’s much maligned “Scroogled” campaign is finally, completely dead, apparently. Winbeta spotted that the old Scroogled site (www.scroogled.com) now redirects to a higher-road “Why Microsoft” site. The vendor started pulling broadcast and print Scroogled… Read more »
A San Francisco court ruled last week that Google has the right to arrange its search results as it pleases, which confirms the company’s long-held view, while underscoring the stark difference in how U.S. and European seek to regulate… Read more »
Search engines are making it harder to see the difference between regular results and paid ads. Does the FTC have the power to do something? Or can consumers figure it out… Read more »
The privacy-friendly search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China, company CEO Gabriel Weinberg has told Tech in Asia. Weinberg said he was unsure when the blockade began, but Chinese censorship… Read more »
Innovation and change in the mobile industry is driving demand for increased control of data and the user experience of location-based apps. New tools and approaches are emerging to meet this… Read more »
Microsoft(s msft) announced a new version of Windows on Friday, Windows 8.1 with Bing, that will be sold only to hardware makers. The idea is to take advantage of lower system… Read more »
A class action complaint says Google uses secret deals to force Samsung and others to make its search engine the default choice on mobile devices, which in turn harms consumers by… Read more »
Even Microsoft has to work really hard to compete with Google on search. So how might Leap.it, a small startup of Kansas City, take on the world’s biggest search engine? Read more »