The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple’s downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before.

Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.

The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.

Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.

The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.

It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.

Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It’s bound to happen soon if not this year.

Fire up that bit torrent client to download more than 5 gigabytes of free MP3s from bands playing the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, next week and catch up on the latest in music with just a couple of clicks.

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.

A trio of nifty apps for Android, iPhone and MySpace profiles from We Are Hunted taps into the musical zeitgeist in near-real-time. It lets you listen to minute-long samples from whichever artist was most streamed on MySpace in the previous 60 seconds.

Julius Genachowski wants to be the Federal Communications Commission chairman that brings cheap and fast broadband to a technologically backwards nation — the United States.

Apple fanboys (and maybe girls) have struck again in New Jersey -- this time breaking into a Best Buy ninja-style to steal $26,000 in notebooks. Six months ago and an hour away an Apple Store was knocked over for an even bigger haul. Coincidence?! Yeah, probably ...

China says it is in consultations with Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking and censorship concerns. It would be the first indication that the parties are actually speaking to each other.

Google is haunted by the notion that the same disruptive forces which transformed it from a garage project by two kids maxing out their credit cards into a global superpower in 10 short years could render them irrelevant. Just like that.

Eddie Kim's Android app Car Locator is raking in $13,000 per month. That's probably the greatest success story we've heard from an independent Android developer so far.

Ever wonder how Jimi Hendrix would have covered Lady Gaga? The day is approaching when you should be able to find out, thanks to Zenph Sound Innovations' technology for analyzing and recreating artists' musical styles.

Apple sues HTC, claiming infringement on patented technology used in the iPhone. But the real target here is Google, as another front is opened in an increasingly hostile face-off by Silicon Valley's two biggest heavyweights.

Netflix has renewed its interest in the iPhone as a video streaming platform, with a survey asking its customers how much they want an app for the iPhone (and, almost certainly, the iPad). The proposed app would allow them to watch thousands of movies and television shows for about the price of one movie ticket per month, with no need for a traditional cable or satellite subscription.

As Wired magazine gets ready to release a tablet edition, parent company Condé Nast adds iPad versions of GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour.

FedEx is famous for memorable television commercials, but like many big companies, it is following customers as they navigate from the television to the computer. So FedEx is shipping much of its marketing to the Web.