Google Search Within Search Box Hurts Affiliates, Says IDC
Follow-up searches without leaving Google.com means any ad revenue generated by this second search goes to Google and not to site owners, particularly publishers.

Comcast And Time Warner May Fund Clearwire-Sprint WiMax Effort
Reports say that the cable operators would contribute $1.5 billion to help deploy the wide area wireless technology.

Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance
If you think the Google Phone is all talk, you're wrong: Here are eight technologies--GPS, multimedia, mobile Web browsing, gaming graphics, and more--which Open Handset Alliance members will bring to the upcoming mobile handset.

Google Shareholders Seek Human Rights, Censorship Review
A May 8 meeting is expected to include a request for certain standards and the creation of a board committee to review Google's policies.

Rich Parents Prefer Google, Are Better At Spotting Suspect Info
A Tufts University study sees the emergence of a "digital skills divide" based on socioeconomic status.

Bhutan, World's Newest Democracy, Gets Advanced Internet, Cell Phone Deployments
A country of fewer than 700,000 inhabitants, Bhutan has resisted change for a long time and only allowed television in 1999.

Google, MySpace, Yahoo Forge OpenSocial Foundation
All companies joining the foundation would be expected to contribute technology under the Creative Commons copyright license.

Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn Work To Share Contacts
Microsoft and four social networks have joined to exchange contacts APIs securely.

Google Wants 'White Space' Spectrum For Wi-Fi 2.0 Service
Google has unveiled plans for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television spectrum.

Sirius-XM Satellite Radio Merger Gets Antitrust Approval
Sirius Satellite Radio's $4.59 billion purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio was given antitrust clearance Monday.

Microsoft Bolsters Its VoIP Strategy With Response Point Service Pack
To get small businesses interested in its telephony products, Microsoft also is teaming with several hardware manufacturers for its summer release.

Anti-Koran Film Site Suspended By Network Solutions
Networks Solutions says it is investigating whether the Web site for a movie that has not yet been released has violated its acceptable use policy.

Safari 3.1 Crashes On Windows XP, Users Complain
There were also reports that the latest version of Apple's Web browser doesn't function properly on Windows Vista.

Kids Being Raised Online, Study Urges Stronger Protections
A British think tank says children spend more than 20 hours a week online, more than three times as much as previous estimates.

Start A Web Business In An Extra Few Minutes
A new Web site, which launched in France in 2006 and in January in the United States, allows people to form online stores for free.

DirecTV Caps Pay-Per-View Movies At 24 Hours
The new policy applies only to movies purchased April 15 or later.

Mozilla CEO: Apple's Safari-To-Windows Distribution Scheme Is Wrong
Apple made Safari version 3.1 available for Windows through its Software Update control panel and as a download from its Web site.

Fired MedPro Consultant Indicted For Spam, Disrupting Business
New Jersey's Attorney General claims the man retaliated by paying a neighbor to crash Web sites and send spam that looked like it had come from MedPro.

Google Launches Language Translation API
The API covers 13 languages and can be used for translating blocks of text in Web pages into multiple languages.