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Texas opens inquiry into Google search rankings - The Oakland Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc.’s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas’ attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet’s dominant search engine. The antitrust inquiry disclosed by Google late Friday ...

German court rules against YouTube over copyright - Berkeley Voice

BERLIN (AP) -- A German court ruled Friday that Google subsidiary YouTube must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright laws. The Hamburg state court said the standardized question to users about whether they have the ...

Author Hawking says God not needed for creation - The Oakland Press

LONDON (AP) — Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe. The concept is explored in “The Grand Design,” excerpts of which were printed in the British ...

Clams befouling Tahoe invade Adirondack lake - Nevada Appeal

BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. (AP) — A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters. The invasive Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, is known as the “golden ...

Northeast coastline may see more future storms - Delaware Online

WASHINGTON -- Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area relatively few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline. And Earl may be foreshadowing more northerly big storms to come with global warming, two hurricane experts said ...

Facebook Blocked Apple's Ping Network - Tom's Guide

Unnamed sources are claiming that Facebook is currently blocking Apple's Ping service because it violates Facebook's terms of service. Because of this, Apple has apparently delayed Ping's Facebook Connect feature. According to reports , Facebook originally denied Apple's new social network access to ...

Samsung, Toshiba offer 'me-too' tablets seek to battle iPad - Seattle Times

Samsung Electronics and Toshiba unveiled tablet computers in Berlin on Thursday, aiming to take market share from Apple's iPad with their lower-priced "me-too" devices. Toshiba said at the IFA consumer-electronics fair that the recommended price for its Folio 100 tablet in Europe is $511 ...

Music Labels Eager For Google-Apple Battle - Post Chronicle

Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Google Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin ...

Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Laptops For Burn Hazard - Redorbit.com

Toshiba Corp. is recalling 41,000 Satellite model laptop computers worldwide out of concern they pose a burn hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. “The notebook computers can overheat at the notebook's plug-in to the AC adapter, posing a burn hazard to consumers,” the safety ...

Don't look for Adobe Flash on Apple's iPads, iPhones soon - Washington Post

I was traveling last week to cover Apple's iPod and Apple TV event Wednesday (and writing an extra column based on that). So this week, I offer questions taken from Friday's Web chat . The iPad's future Concerning the iPad, will the projected update in OS include Flash (or deal with it's lack of ...