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The tech world may not always reach Olympian heights, but there’s still plenty to report this week. For instance: Apple got tougher on apps vendors, Wal-Mart got into the video-on-demand business, Google got skewered by an Italian court, and schools in Southeast Pennsylvania got in Dutch with angry parents. Do you have what it takes [...]

A few days after the Opera 10.50 beta for Windows got its second revision, the first Mac beta for version 10.50 finally has been released to the public. There has been a pre-alpha release available since late December, but it hasn’t received the multiple public upgrades that the Windows one had, until now. Opera 10.50 [...]

When considering strategic business intelligence needs, would you put your faith in the cloud? The idea made sense for Distribution Market Advantage. For Creativity Inc., not so much. The profiles of these two companies draw a clear line between where the nascent BI-as-a-service offerings fit — and don’t fit — in business today. At one [...]

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman posted an entry to the company blog on Friday afternoon, coming out forcefully against a recent class action lawsuit that says the business reviews site runs its advertising sales operation like an “extortion scheme.” “There has been a long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around with reviews in exchange [...]

Microsoft left little doubt Friday that it was one of the companies leading the charge against Google worldwide. In a blog post entitled “Competition Authorities and Search,” Microsoft Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner said part of the motivation for Microsoft and Yahoo’s search deal was “we are concerned about Google business practices [...]

Apple shareholders gathered on Thursday at the company’s Cupertino headquarters, questions in hand. But unlike last year, when the primary concern of many attendees seemed to be Steve Jobs’s medical leave and its effect on the health of the company, this year’s discussion focused largely on environmental and financial issues. As usual, Apple began the [...]

Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages. While Go is still a work in progress, some developers are so encouraged by its features and design that they have started using it to build noncritical [...]

If anyone still thinks “Enterprise 2.0″ is just a catchphrase, think again. Wikis, microblogging, discussion forums, social bookmarking, online groups and communities, and other tools that have come to comprise “social networking software” are marching into enterprises at a rapid clip. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and Killer [...]

Microsoft and Google are stepping up their war of words. This time it’s Microsoft’s turn: It says Google is pointing fingers rather than addressing the European Commission’s investigation into the search giant. Earlier this week, the European Commission acknowledged that it had begun looking into three antitrust complaints filed against Google. In response, Google has [...]

After Microsoft officially released Windows 7, interest in rapidly adopting the operating system increased for one in five IT pros from small and midsize companies, according to a survey by an IT management company. According to the Spiceworks’ “Voice of IT” survey, conducted before and after the software’s official launch, 20 percent of 1,530 IT [...]