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Kindle books to open on Web browsers
Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people’s digital collections saved in the Internet "cloud."
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Microsoft adding anti-tracking privacy options to new Web browser
Microsoft unveiled increased privacy options on Tuesday for the upcoming version of its popular Web browser Internet Explorer 9, including the ability to prevent tracking by third-party websites.
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Internet body meets on domain names, IP addresses
ICANN, the international regulatory body for Web architecture, met here Monday to discuss expanding the list of top level domain names and a new generation of Internet protocol addresses.
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Facebook revamps users’ profile pages
Facebook on Sunday unveiled new profile pages that give photos centerstage, allow users to highlight important friends and go into far more detail on their jobs.
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Rude website spurs Google to alter search algorithms
Google is tweaking its algorithms after an online eyeglass merchant managed to get his site listed at the top of search rankings by being deliberately rude to customers and sparking complaints.
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Google must now buy its way to innovation
With an optimistic spreadsheet and a lot of creativity, there just might be a way to rationalize the US$6-billion or so Google is expected to shell out on Groupon. Yet making the numbers work on the search giant's purchase of the coupon website may not matter over the longer term. The bigger lesson to draw from what would be Google's biggest-ever deal is that the company's reign as the Internet's innovation king is ending.
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Thieves use Google Earth to steal lead from U.K. churches
Thieves in Britain are using Google Earth to target lead roofs on Church of England buildings to sell on the lucrative metals market, a Church spokesman said.
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Deborah Yedlin
Yedlin: Greenback's rocky ride forced central bank's rate decision
The decision by the Bank of Canada to leave rates untouched at one per cent at the same time as the U.S. has decided to leave existing tax cuts in place while in the midst of another stimulus round shouldn't have come as a big surprise.
Lorne Gunter
Gunter: Alberta's second-class status will remain if rep-by-pop bill dies
Canada has one of the most unbalanced democracies in the developed world. The average federal riding in Prince Edward Island, for instance, has only one-third as many voters as the average riding in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.
Joseph Quesnel
Quesnel: Aboriginal author attacks economic dependency
In 2009, AIDS activist and former NDP politician Stephen Lewis spoke to an audience at the University of Lethbridge about global health. During questioning, someone asked Lewis about famed Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo.
Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens: Take accountability, Julian Assange
In my most recent book, I reprint some words from a British Embassy cable, sent from Baghdad to the Foreign Office in 1976. The subject is Iraq's new leader. His quiet coup d'etat is reassuringly described as "the first smooth transfer of power since 1958."
