Yahoo Inc. announced a more than $100 million marketing campaign on Tuesday that aims to portray the Web giant as the online spot for consumers to find personally relevant content -- and for... ... MORE

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday proposed stricter rules to ensure that wireless and wireline Internet providers don't block or slow traffic over their networks, a... ... MORE

Playfish, the creator of popular social networking games like Pet Society, Restaurant City and Country Story, said today it's opening a development studio in San Francisco to target local talent. ... ... MORE

A recent study ranked the top 10 most trusted companies in the realm of privacy and, what do you know, Facebook was there. The two-part study by the Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe - both... ... MORE

A number of publications reported today that Google Inc. might be in talks to acquire online TV service Brightcove for $500 million to $700 million, after a single tweet said as much. A Google... ... MORE

Google Inc. announced on its blog today that it acquired ReCaptcha, a company that provides those familiar squiggly word boxes -- known as captchas -- that help web operators prevent spam and... ... MORE

My favorite app over the last couple days has been the Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile app for the iPhone, which I got an early look at. Autodesk is the company behind some of the best 2-D and 3-D... ... MORE

In a report released today , security experts describe something alarming: it seems governmental and commercial organizations are failing to protect themselves effectively in the areas where they... ... MORE

Dozens of tech companies, many of them from the Bay Area, have joined forces in an effort to head off patent legislation that they fear would slow down the patent process and lead to abuses by... ... MORE

A number of companies used the occasion of the TechCrunch conference to announce news on Monday. Among them: Google Inc. revealed a new experimental product called Google Fast Flip , designed... ... MORE

It's a yearly ritual but one that has a little less sting this time. Comcast announced a rate increase effective Oct. 15 that will translate into a 1.6 percent increase in monthly cable service.... ... MORE

In Google's Android operating system, Motorola has found a new religion that it hopes will resurrect its fortunes. Last week, it unveiled its first Android phone, the Cliq, and a new interface... ... MORE

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran a photo of a strikingly gaunt Steve Jobs -- for a story about the Apple chief executive's first public appearance since undergoing a liver transplant... ... MORE

In case you missed it, those fun lovin' folks over at Facebook pulled a fast one on TechCrunch, the popular technology blog. TechCrunch, which prides itself on its solid coverage of the tech world,... ... MORE

At this rate, it's looking like it's going to be hard for the games industry to show any growth this year. Video game industry sales were down 16 percent last month, continuing a string of down... ... MORE

Google Inc. today offered up yet another concession in its bid to secure support for the pending legal settlement that would allow it to forge ahead with plans to digitally scan and publish millions... ... MORE

Reposted blog from the Seattle PI's Microsoft reporter Nick Eaton: The nation's top copyright official on Thursday came out against a proposed legal settlement that would allow Google to... ... MORE

Online video sharing site YouTube appears to be taking a page out of Facebook's playbook in a move toward becoming more of a social network. Writing on the company's blog , Elizabeth Windram,... ... MORE

For a chip company, AMD is pushing a curious but refreshing strategy. The No. 2 chip maker is embarking on a new marketing campaign in which it is actually de-emphasizing its chips in favor of... ... MORE

Two years ago, Palm and Sprint launched the Palm Centro, a little consumer-focused smart phone aimed at younger messaging users. The little $99 phone, the sibling to the venerable Treo, became the... ... MORE

Facebook is making a big push to take social networking further into mobile devices, and small wonder. There are now 65 million Facebook members who access their accounts through a mobile device, a... ... MORE

Apple mobile developers have to be happy with the news Wednesday. IPhone and iPod Touch users will get the ability to use the Genius feature through iTunes to get recommendations for apps. This... ... MORE

The question on most people's lips following the Apple iPod & iTunes event was why no video camera on the Touch? I asked Greg Joswiak, Apple's VP of iPhone and iPod product marketing about the... ... MORE

I'm here at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this morning to see if Steve Jobs will make an appearance, whether the Beatles music will come to iTunes and what kind of new features we'll see in... ... MORE

Palm's coming clean about its second phone to sport the Palm webOS. The Palm Pixi will give the company a presumably cheaper, more mainstream offering than the Palm Pre, which is getting an... ... MORE

Google Inc. has made at least two significant concessions to critics of its landmark book scanning legal settlement in recent days, moves clearly aimed at gaining support as big name opponents line... ... MORE

An article in this morning's Chronicle tells the story of professional musicians who have begun employing Apple Inc.'s IPod Touch and IPhone in their performances and recordings. The open... ... MORE

Just as the media declares Twitter the domain of an older demographic comes another demonstration of how the new media landscape can turn on a dime. Back in April, the Internet research... ... MORE

When Caltrans shut down the Bay Bridge at 8 p.m. Thursday night, a Web site with information about the Labor Day weekend closure featured a clock counting down to when the structure would reopen.... ... MORE

Google Inc. has suffered another blow to its efforts to expand in China. The Mountain View search giant announced today that Kai-Fu Lee, hired away from Microsoft in 2005 to develop the company's... ... MORE

I don't review individual apps but this one was too fun to pass up. I am T-Pain lets you sing along with T-Pain songs using the same auto-tune technology he's known for in songs like "I'm N... ... MORE

There's been many interesting, thoughtful comments posted on my story today on how shots from digital photography hobbyists are getting discovered on Flickr or other photo sharing sites and getting... ... MORE

Well, the wait for MMS multimedia messaging on the iPhone is finally coming to an end. AT&T said today that the feature, which has been a glaring omission on the iPhone 3G and new 3GS, will arrive... ... MORE

I've yet to lay my hands on the HTC Hero but the wait will soon be over. The powerful Android device is headed to Sprint for an Oct. 11 launch, the carrier announced today. This gives Sprint its... ... MORE

Google Inc. pointed out today that the estate of Dr. Seuss intends to file a letter in support of the pending legal settlement that would allow the search titan to forge ahead with plans to make... ... MORE

In what could represent yet another nail in the coffin of movie rental stores, YouTube is reportedly in talks with major studios on a plan to allow users to stream videos for a rental fee. The San... ... MORE

The National Football League has become the latest sports body to try to tame the use of social networks. The NFL, which has an official Twitter account, issued a new edict this week banning... ... MORE

Gmail appears to be up and running again. Google Inc. hasn't yet responded to an inquiry about how long the service was down and how widespread the outage was. Analysts say these sort of... ... MORE

UPDATE: Google says the outage has been fixed. No word on the cause of the problem. Google's Gmail service is down. We've been experiencing the problem for the last half hour or so. No word on... ... MORE

Ebay is ending its days as majority owner of Skype, selling 2/3 of the Voice over Internet Protocol service to a group of investors. The deal calls for eBay to sell 65 percent of the company to a... ... MORE