One of the original founders of Google, Larry Page, will be taking over the reins again as Chief Executive Officer. Current CEO Eric Schmidt will move into the position of Executive Chairman on April 4, 2011, after 10 years in charge of the firm. Page, 37, will take over the day-to-day running of Google, the [...]

Most monthly cell phone bills have seen slight increases in recent months. Three of the four biggest wireless networks raised their rates or did away with discount promotions this month, and Verizon Wireless has yet to discuss rate plans for iPhone customers when it begins offering the phone in February. “At the end of the [...]

Square Enix, the publisher of the famous Final Fantasy Game Series, announced the latest installment, which is the sequel to Final Fantasy XIII. Final Fantasy XIII- 2 will be available for sale in videogame retail stores in winter of 2011. The RPG game formats are accessible for both Sony Playstation and Xbox 360. Its prequel, [...]

Amazon is buying the European online DVD rental service Lovefilm. The giant internet retail company, which already owned a large share of London-based Lovefilm, said the movies-by-mail service had a “productive and innovative” future. The purchase is regarded by many as a move to help Amazon fight back against international expansion plans of Netflix, the [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking his third leave of absence for medical reasons. Jobs, who has long battled pancreatic cancer, send an e-mail to employees Monday morning informing them he was taking time to “focus on my heath.” The e-mail was released to the media just before 6 a.m. It noted that Tim Cook, [...]

Poker.ca, the largest Canadian online poker site recently changed hands for $400,000. This is significantly more than the previous record sale for a Canadian .ca domain name. As always with such a high-profile sale, there is a lot of speculation about the identity of the anonymity of the buyer. The new owner of the Canadian [...]

The notion proposed by the Federal Trace Commission in December to allow people surfing the Web to opt out of having their browsing history tracked could spell doom for the growing field of online ads, according to people who track the industry. The FTC compares “Do-Not-Track” to the policy adopted by the National Do Not [...]

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft announced its first earth-sized planetary discovery outside this solar system. Planet Kepler-10b, is the smallest planet discovered that is not apart of our solar system. Data gathered by the spacecraft over a nearly eight-month period, gauged size of the rocky exoplanet at about 1.4 times the size of Earth. Kepler-10b orbits its [...]

After skipping the North American International Auto Show for the past four years, Porsche is back in Detroit with a truly impressive offering. The company on Monday rolled out its new 918 RSR hybrid super racecar. The new racer features an exterior of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and comes with an impressive 563 horsepower, 10,300 [...]

Most of the tech toys unveiled every year at the International Consumer Electronics Show never seem to make it beyond the trade show floor, but this year the annual Las Vegas event included some promising new gadgets. Some of the tech show highlights included a retooled version of Windows from Microsoft, Verizon’s offering of products [...]

Ford Motor Co introduced its first gas-free electric car with promises to surpass its rivals. The all-electric Ford Focus will be delivered to the U.S. and Europe markets by 2013. The electric Focus is Ford Motor Company’s answer to Nissan’s Leaf and the Car of the Year’s Chevrolet Volt by General Motors. Although the Focus [...]

The first electronic devices with built-in connectivity to the new high-speed wireless data network from Verizon Wireless are a tablet and smartphone from Motorola Mobility Inc. designed to be used for videoconferencing. More consumer electronics for the 4G network from Verizon were unveiled during the International Consumer Electronics Show, which opened last week in Las [...]