PayPals Text To Buy Flies Early

EBay's online payment service PayPal is gearing up to offer mobile phone payments via text messaging. Recently surpassing 100 million users, PayPal's impending service was apparently outed by the blogosphere when bloggers noticed some telling test pages.

Government Backs Apple Against The French

US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez made it known that the government supports Apple's contention that forcing it to open its DRM scheme, Fairplay, will promote widespread piracy.

This Time, They’ve Gone Too Far

Interactivity, two-way communication, community building...it's all good stuff. But sometimes, you have to wonder if the ability to do something means you should.

Google Gets Indexed By S&P

On March 31, Google will become part of the Standard and Poor's 500 index of US-based companies, a move that had been anticipated ever since the company's IPO took place.