Debate around a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions to the Internet infrastructure has reached a fever pitch in the nation’s capital, as critics engage in a last-ditch effort to scrap or delay the plan, which is scheduled to launch Jan. 12. Both the Senate and House of...

If you’ve ever contributed to Wikipedia, you’re no doubt familiar with the markup coding it’s long relied on for formatting its articles. That wiki markup language, in fact, may well be at least one reason behind Wikipedia’sdwindling ranks of contributors, the Wikimedia Foundation...

Yahoo’s improving stock price following a CEO shakeup makes the Internet portal ripe for a sale, and speculation is flying about industry titans that may bid for the company. The latest rumors suggest Google may help finance a possible deal by others to acquire Yahoo. Other players who may be looking to...

Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind and now thoroughly enjoys using the company’s social networking site. “As a user I’m very pleased with the results,” Brin...

Google last week patched 32 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying more than $14,000 in bug bounties as it also upgraded the stable edition of the browser to version 14. The company called out a pair of developer-oriented additions to Chrome 14 and noted new support for Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, including...