Google infringes the copyrights of Belgian newspapers by placing links to and portions of their articles on Google News, the Belgian Court of Appeals has ruled. As a result, Google is required to remove all articles and photos from all Belgian newspapers in French and German. Google faces a daily fine of...

A series of internal e-mails from last year highlights how important location data is to Google, and likely gives more ammunition to privacy advocates over how these companies track your every move. The e-mails were written by then-CEO Larry Page following a move by Motorola to replace Google’s...

Animal-shaped robots are pretty fun, right? Whether it’s a toy bot like Pleo the Dinosaur or the more advanced Necoro the feline robot, animal robots are be really entertaining to make, watch, and interact with. So a Japanese spider robot can be just a cute and clever, right? That depends on how...

What in the world is IntoNow? Why does Yahoo want this company, which launched 12 weeks ago and has all of seven employees? And why should anybody care? Short answers first: IntoNow makes an iPhone app that enables you to tell your network of friends about the cool TV show, movie, game or commercial...

A Houston restaurant worker is the first user of a prototype wireless access point using low frequency signals in the so-called White Spaces between unused UHF digital TV signals. The access point was set up in the home of 48-year-old Leticia Aguirre, described as a working grandmother and homeowner, who...