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It's not all beer-pong and barbeque at SXSW. Isn't the Interactive portion of the festival supposed to be about sharing ideas?

In the clearest language to date, Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin signaled heavy scrutiny of Google coming in 2011. An antitrust showdown between the U.S

By now you've probably heard of HTML5, the platform that every browser maker from Microsoft to Mozilla to Google can't stop heralding as the savior of the Internet. Buzzwords aside, developers are excited about HTML5 because it creates a more elegant online experience, enabling users to enjoy the the best aspects of the web--audio, video, multimedia--without having to install external applications like Adobe Flash. In other words, HTML5 allows us to experience the Internet natively, and escape what Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan calls "plug-in prison." Sullivan is gung-ho about HTML5, which has become a major selling point of Firefox 4, the browser's latest iteration set launch in the coming weeks

LinkedIn has announced the launch of LinkedIn Today, a social news product for business users that the company hopes will turn its site into a can't-miss daily destination. Up until now, LinkedIn didn't offer enough fresh information to be useful in daily life; well-connected Internet users don't check LinkedIn every day the way they might with, say, Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn Today aims to change that

A new study shows readers of iPad magazines find their attention wandering. A lot. And any way you spin it, that's a tricky finding for both publishers and advertisers.

During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming that Barack Obama’s birth certificate was a fake

HarperCollins wants ebooks--and their licenses--to expire over time. Many lenders aren't happy

The internet helps me find a lot of things I’m looking for, like a nearby restaurant or where to renew my driver’s license.

TED is one of the world's most important meeting of amazing minds and, consequently, tends to produce its fair share of insights. What makes the event unique is that it is completely polymath, bringing together people from every discipline under the sun

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. We still need phone books! That's the rallying cry of some small-business owners in San Francisco, who are campaigning against the city's proposal to limit the distribution of those thick tomes that land with a thud on doorsteps each year

If you're fed up of reading an Internet peppered with news about Charlie Sheen, then take heart: There's now a browser plug-in that'll censor Sheen-related references for you. If you're fed up of reading a Net full of Apple references, then tough luck--there's real talk that Apple was testing a 64GB iPhone version, as a prototype has leaked. On with the news.

Just in time for SXSW, the app finds free or for-rent workspace for freelancers and office owners looking to rent unused offices and conference rooms.

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The next stage in the search engine wars has arrived: Microsoft is boosting its Bing system with a similar " instant results " feature to Google 's, bringing a pseudo-real time feel to search that aims to speed up the process significantly. Google introduced "instant" search feedback recently to increase the speed and efficiency of search--the system pops up a suggested list of search query matches as you're actually typing, just in case the results meet your needs before you go through the tedious business of typing out a complete search string. Now Microsoft, which is busy expanding Bing's search engine into a very serious rival for Google, is trying something very similar

There's a debate going on about tablets. Are they actually PC's? Steve Jobs says "no"