Ben Charny

Search giant Google Inc. began work early this year with several noted scientists to make information on human genes more readily available, claims a new book profiling the Internet search giant. According to “The Google Story” by Pulitzer Prize winner David Vise, the worlds most popular Internet search engine and the scientists involved believe the […]

In a historic role reversal, the reportage of Yahoo Inc.s foreign correspondent Kevin Sites is being distributed to print publications via Scripps Howard News Service, both companies said Friday. The Scripps-Yahoo relationship is of note because, for the first time, Yahoo is syndicating some of the content it had a hand in creating. Historically, Yahoos […]

Search giant Google Inc. is said to be interested in buying Redwood City, Calif.-based Riya/Ojos Inc., a maker of photo searching technology. The rumored deal spotlights how search engines are focusing more on the caliber of their services, rather than just building the most extensive possible catalog of Internet locales. Riyas products can supposedly identify […]

A new set of forces are at work that may lead to the same major changes to ICANN, a key Internet governance entity, that its opponents just failed to bring about. The United States brushed back an attempt on the part of several nations this week at a U.N. forum to weaken its sizable control […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Search giant Google Inc. took a big step Tuesday night toward becoming an Internet service provider. A clearly smitten Mountain View city council on Tuesday unanimously ratified a five-year property lease that Google needs to begin building a wireless network in the city. “Theres no free lunch,” said Mountain View Councilmember Tom Means. […]

A federal court has refused to push back the deadline date for Internet phone operators to move towards a more adequate emergency dialing service. The decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, means VOIP (voice over IP) providers still face the Nov. 28 deadline to comply with some new federal […]

Search giant Google Inc. has introduced Google Base, its much-rumored listings service that many people believe is meant to compete against auction and listings sites like eBay or Craigslist. Google Base is based on submissions from Google users, which Google then organizes and opens up for searching, for free. In a Weblog posting Wednesday, Google […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Search giant Google Inc. could take a big step to becoming an Internet service provider as soon as Tuesday night. Google has already acknowledged it wants to build its own Internet network, thus challenging the incumbent broadband operators stranglehold on the Internet service provider market. So far, Google is leaning toward using Wi-Fi, […]

Microsoft Corp. announced a new version of its desktop search feature meant for use in corporate computer networks, as it tries to keep pace with rivals such as Google Inc. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant says the new facet searches for information stored on individual PCs, or among clusters of computers typically found in offices. […]

Google Inc.s free Web site traffic analysis feature introduced Sunday was quick to impact WebSideStory, the company that arguably leads the analytics market that Google has just entered. In the hours after Google debuted its Google Analytics feature, San Diego-based WebSideStorys stock price fell as much as 12 percent, to below $16 a share. While […]