Mike Shaver, vice president of technical strategy at Mozilla and an influential Firefox executive, is leaving the nonprofit that develops the open-source browser. Shaver had worked directly for Mozilla for six years, though he worked longer before that as part of the volunteer community around the software...

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 at age 45. Since the, he’s been fondly remembered for his music, memorable stage persona, legendary style, and–of course–his ever-present mustache. Google is commemorating Mercury’s life through a special video doodle, which over the...

Google+ is still in limited “Field Trial” mode, which is fancy for “beta version”. That means that Google+ is still very much a work in progress, and that teams of developers at Google are hard at work tweaking and implementing new features for the social network. One such tweak that...

Hurricane Irene has its sights set on the East Coast, and that has easterners checking websites and mobile apps to stay up-to-date on its progress. The Weather Channel has already seen increased traffic this week to Weather.com and its mobile information sources, with 8.1 million page views to its mobile...

Over the course of the 30 Days With Google+ series I have steadily acquired more people following me in Google+. Many of those users I know and interact with, and many of them are perfect strangers. I’d like to be able to easily identify the ones I know and add them to my Circles, but the...