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Facebook has released a benchmark designed to help developers test just how powerful desktop and mobile browsers are at running a new generation of games built with a new generation of Web standards. One of the most important of those standards is the JavaScript programming language, which is ubiquitous on the Web and ever faster [...]

eBay has bought a local-shopping service that it expects will help both buyers and sellers by uniting online and offline shopping. The auction site said yesterday that it has acquired Milo, a Web site designed to help shoppers find products available at their local brick-and-mortar stores and compare prices with those from online retailers. Though [...]

eBay is getting ready for the holidays with a new take on its home page and a new shared gift-giving feature. The auction site refreshed its home page yesterday with the goal of helping people find and buy items more quickly and easily. The redesign, which eBay said was months in the making, offers a [...]

OSLO, Norway–Good news for anybody with a newspaper who needs to reckon with Internet publishing: the man behind a key Web technology has your needs in mind. After years of relative obscurity, the Web formatting standard called CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets has come into its own, taking a starring role as the mechanism for [...]

OSLO, Norway–With extensions coming to Opera 11, the Norwegian browser maker says it’s time to consider making the technology a standard for all browsers. That’s because Opera 11 extensions will use the same collection of Web page technologies–HTML for page contents, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting, JavaScript for processing–as extensions in Google’s Chrome, Apple’s [...]

Two million users with 5 million computers storing 100 million bookmarks doth not a business make. That’s what Xmarks, a company that for a time ruled the technical specialty of synchronizing bookmarks among different computers and browsers, concluded. After four years’ effort, it’s closing up shop in about 90 days after finding no good way [...]

Anyone who has used Twitter has seen those shortened URLs from TinyURL.com, Bitly, and other such services. The advantage of those shortened URLs is that they take up less space, which can be very important on Twitter, where messages are limited to no more than 140 characters, but the disadvantage is that you don’t know [...]

Confirming a bunch of disparate blog rumors about individual hires, Twitter confirmed on Tuesday–after previously declining to comment–that it’s building out a sales team and has hired a News Corp. veteran to helm it. Adam Bain, previously serving as the head of News Corp.’s Fox Audience Network (the conglomerate’s unit for online advertising operations, technology, [...]

Hewlett-Packard will use Windows 7 in a tablet exclusively for enterprises, while making a consumer-oriented unit based on WebOS, Personal Systems Group executive Phil McKinney confirmed Wednesday at the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. The sprawling technology vendor is taking a targeted approach to its upcoming tablets, which will go up against Apple’s blockbuster iPad and [...]

A talk on China’s military cyber-attack capabilities has been pulled from the Black Hat security conference schedule following pressure from Taiwanese and Chinese agencies. The talk, entitled “The Chinese Cyber Army: An Archaeological Study from 2001 to 2010,” was billed as an analysis of China’s government-backed hacking initiatives, based on intelligence gathered from a variety [...]