• Pew: Online Gender Gap Shrinks, But Sexes Use Web Differently by Wendy Davis

    These days, women and men go online in almost equal proportions, but what they do on the Web is another matter entirely. Men are more likely than women to check weather and news, download music, and get financial information; women are more likely to look for health and medical information, use e-mail, and--clichéd though it may be--seek out maps and directions online. ...Read the whole story

  • VoIP Firm Sues Google by Shankar Gupta

    Rates Technology, a Smithtown, N.Y.-based VoIP firm, filed a pair of patent infringement claims against Google, claiming that the search giant's IM and voice chat product, Google Talk, violates patents held by Rates. ...Read the whole story

  • Yahoo!, MSN Strong In Shopping Referrals by Shankar Gupta

    Yahoo! and MSN both send a greater proportion of search engine users to shopping sites than does search market leader Google, according to a recent Hitwise report. ...Read the whole story

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