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Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out its Google TVs, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out Google TV, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday.

iTunes Match is part of Apple's latest mobile operating system update, and after a brief delay, it's now up and running. It's a cloud-based storage system that can hold all the music from your computer's library, even the ones you didn't actually buy from Apple. Now all of your 90's hits that you had stored on your old laptop can be digitized and stored in the cloud.

Occupy UC Davis has annpunced that it plans to pursue legal action as the fallout continues to grow in the wake of UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike's pepper-spraying of nonviolent student protesters seated in the school's quad on Friday.

Wikipedia received a $500,000 donation from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, right after the free online encyclopedia started their eighth annual fundraising drive.

Logitech, which lost tens of millions of dollars building set-top boxes for Google TV, would back the project again, but would be much more cautious, its chief executive said.

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc said late on Thursday that its stockholders approved the $12.5 billion deal to be acquired by the search giant Google Inc.

Galaxy Nexus went on sale Nov. 17 in the UK, so many of the mainstream media have gotten loaner models from Google, and now that they've had the phone for a day or so, they've got some first impressions for us.

Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL, LinkedIn and Zynga wrote a joint letter to Congress, urging the House of Representatives to prevent the Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law.

The online outrage sparked by congresses new effort to Stop Online Piracy had reached new heights, this time stretching beyond users to the companies themselves. Facebook, Google, Twitter, AOL are all among SOPA's opponents.

Google Inc has turned on the music at its new online store, aiming to wrest the lead from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc in audio entertainment distribution despite the absence of a major record label.

Apple and Google released two cloud-based music services within two days. See how iTunes Match and Google Music compare.

Google Inc warned U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that proposed legislation to crack down on foreign websites selling pirated U.S. movies, music or other counterfeit goods goes too far and could depress investment.

Malware research group Juniper Global Threat Center posted on its blog yesterday on its finding of a whopping 472% increase in Android malware samples since this past July. Not only have instances of Android malware identification increased exponentially since the summer, says Juniper, but the methods of attack are growing more sophisticated.

Google argues against U.S. online piracy bill

Google Inc unveiled a new online music store on Wednesday, in a move to challenge the dominance of market leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

Social media and mobile communications will be the two big targets for Google Inc when it unveils a new music store for users on Wednesday, according to four people familiar with its plans.

Google Inc is expected to unveil on Wednesday an online music download store featuring songs from three major music companies, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt blasted proposed legislation to tighten online copyright regulation on Tuesday, saying the bills would lead to censorship of the Internet.

Google added a useful new search feature called Verbatim, geared toward those users who don't want Google's help in filling out search terms.

Samsung's Galaxy S2 and Captivate Glide are two very different devices, mostly because the Captivate Glide has a slide-out keyboard for improved typing. A physical keyboard? What is this, 2009? No, the Captivate Glide is not an old clam shell feature phone or anything like that. Some people really just love to have a physical keyboard to type on.

Trapit, birthed out of the same program that delivered Apple's intelligent assistant Siri, officially launched its public beta Tuesday. The company hopes to revolutionize how people search and discover content on the Web.

Google sent the source code for its Android 4.0 system update to developers in early November, and they are now free to tinker with the system and add different features to the customizable operating system. One of those features includes hacking Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and building a version that can be downloaded before the official version is sent out to certain devices.

Google Earth has apparently spotted large and unidentified structures in China's Gobi Desert. The satellite images have raised questions over what China could be building in the region, which shares borders with Mongolia and is used for military, space and nuclear programs.

Apple-made smartphones and Android-based smartphones are the two most widely used smartphones in the world, but one way to really tell them apart is by seeing which is easier to use. That means turning on an iPhone or an Android-powered device and measuring which software system is easier to navigate and figuring it out just by playing around with it for a little while.

On paper, Groupon Inc appears to be a juicy target for short sellers: it loses money, it has changed its accounting twice, and its unproven business model faces competition from Google and Amazon.

Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who was severely injured in a Occupy Oakland protest in October, has been discharged from the hospital and is back home.

Galaxy Note by Samsung will debut in the UK soon but in October, HTC debuted another large smartphone, the 4.7-inch HTC Sensation XL. It's not as big as the forthcoming Note's 5.3-inch screen but even 4.7-inches could be too large for some.

Droid Razr, Motorola's new flagship device, is now on sale, but there is still no word on when it will get the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system update from Google. As the top new smartphone from Motorola, it's sure to get the update, but it might not happen until January.