Soon, gasoline pumps made by Gilbarco will help motorists filling up their gas tanks to find a place to stop for lunch or get directions using a Google search tool right on the pump.

Hoping to find another arena to compete with Google in, Microsoft posted for download on November 4 technology that will allow developers to take their Web services and databases offline, called Microsoft Sync Framework.

 Toshiba, in an effort to spur HD DVD sales early in the Christmas shopping season, has started offering up to 10 free HD DVD movie titles with the purchase of some new HD DVD players.

Why doesn’t everyone have an iPhone? According to a recent GMI poll, its because they cost too much.

According to computer-security researchers who’ve analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail supporting the long-shot Republican candidate, his campaign is getting support from an illegal, globe-spanning network of spam-spewing robots.

On  its second birthday, online messaging service Meebo has unwrapped the Meebo Platform, a way for outside developers to build applications that integrate with the Meebo desktop.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Google plans a series of announcements over the next two weeks about its mobile-phone software, which would bundle together most Google applications — search, maps, YouTube, instant-messaging — on a mobile platform.

Motorola has developed technology to scan voice calls and text messages for targeted information about where customers are and what they are doing. Prompting major concerns from privacy groups.

Bad programs, and smarter hackers. How do you win? Bruce Scheiner says, “If you want security, go back to DOS.”

Bloggers and journalists are outraged that unless an ambiguously-worded new law is amended before it comes into force, Italian bloggers may be required to register with a national database.

Apple is expected to make an official announcement Wednesday that they have dropped the price of digital rights management (DRM) free iTunes Plus tracks. Instead of $1.29, the tracks will cost the same as standard songs with DRM: 99 cents.

A well-executed Facebook parody site called Hatebook has stepped in to provide grumpy people with a place to bi**ch about everything they hate.

"iPhone the first step in making a greener Apple"? Apparently not. The company has a lot of work ahead of it before meeting Greenpeace standards.

AddThis.com’s September audience-engagement data shows that more active users of feed readers and bookmarking services are using Google.

Ok, really, its all of those things. According to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey, forty-nine percent of workers say they have gained weight at their current jobs.

Because of past budget constraints, Russia’s schools mostly ran illegal copies of Microsoft operating systems and programs. Now that Russia has entered the WTO, the laws have become much stricter and schools are starting  to be prosecuted.

Would you like WiFi with that? McDonalds announced this weekend that by the end of 2007, all of its UK restaurants will offer free Wifi.