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(CNN) — A Web site started by a student as a way of staying in touch with friends celebrated its fifth birthday Wednesday as a billion-dollar business and a global phenomenon. Around 15 million users update their statuses on Facebook daily. Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm in 2004. [...]

(CNET) — Just because the Internet has broken down geographic barriers, don’t assume that Google doesn’t care about geography. With Google’s new Latitude software, cell phone users can share their locations with others. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google [...]

Microsoft’s ActiveSync licensing program is continuing full-steam ahead. Last year, Apple acknowledged it had licensed ActiveSync to enable better synchronization between Exchange Server and the iPhone.  ActiveSync, as explained on Microsoft’s Web site, is “a communication protocol that enables mobile, ‘over-the-air’ access to your e-mail messages, schedules, contacts, tasks lists, and other Exchange Server mailbox [...]

Unsurprisingly, the head of the Mozilla Foundation is backing Opera Software’s browser-bundling complaint against Microsoft. Mitchell Baker, Chief Executive of the foundation, has gone on record saying she concurs with the European Commission’s preliminary conclusion that  “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and [...]

Steve Souders knows how to make a website speed through a web browser. And he works at Google, one of the fastest websites around. Web performace is a two-pronged beast: efficiency and response time. Efficiency deals with the scalability challenges of building a top 100 global website. You have millions of users and billions of [...]

Google has rolled out new tools to help people quickly get content removed from its search engine. Those targeted at site owners allow for speedy removal of pages and cached copies of pages. Other tools allow those to request the removal of images or links to pages with personal information about themselves, in the right [...]

Google device to fathom the oceans pa.press.net Google has launched a new version of Google Earth that allows users to explore the oceans, view images of the planet Mars and watch regions of the Earth change over time. The new features mark a significant upgrade to Google Earth, a software program that provides access to [...]

Google Earth 5.0, which launched today, expands Google’s reach beneath the waves, allows free GPS uploads and even heads across the empty reaches of space to Mars. Watery wonders The biggest addition to the geological software package are 20 3D ocean layers, combining sea floor terrain and expert content (such as National Geographic articles and [...]

If you’re among the die-hard band of hold-outs that has yet to recognise the power of micro-blogging site Twitter, then a stunning demonstration of its power for good may change your mind. Global non-profit group charity: water is currently using Twitter to lift awareness of its drive to bring clean water to the 1.1 billion [...]

If you ever doubted the power of Google, then a minor snafu late Saturday exposed just how reliant the world is on the California search giant. Anyone performing a simple search through Google got quite a shock when all results, no matter how innocent, came back marked “This site may harm your computer” – Google’s [...]