An FBI listing on FedBizOpps.gov is putting out the call for developers to submit software capable of automatically monitoring social media channels for he purpose of detecting criminal activity. "Given the overwhelming volume of data generated on the Internet ... it is no surprise that the FBI is completely overwhelmed and unable to do any type of canvassing through basic human intervention," said Cornell's Tracy Mitrano.

Google is making its privacy policies uniform across many of its services and tearing down the walls between them to allow for the sharing of user data. Google contends that the move toward consolidation will improve search and serve users better. "This is typical Google bluster and bafflegab," Consumer Watchdog's John Simpson countered.

Apple shares have soared following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker leapfrogged over ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value.

Brad Pitt has confirmed that he would "actually like to" marry Angelina Jolie.

The Hollywood couple had stated that they would not tie the knot until everyone had the right to, including gay couples, but he says they may have to backtrack on that.

An unusual small claims lawsuit by a Honda hybrid owner has taken another complicated turn with additional arguments that prompted a commissioner to delay a ruling for more consideration.

In the middle of the last decade, hotels flexed some muscle to take back some semblance of distribution control from the likes of Expedia and Hotels.com, but with Google, Apple and Facebook waiting in the wings, a new study suggests hotels ain’t seen nothing yet.

The 214-page study, Distribution Channel Analysis: A Guide for Hotels, warns that third-party “gatekeepers” such as Google, Facebook and Apple, will expand their influence as “preferred points of entry” when consumers search for hotels and make reservations.

presented the novel DROID 4 by Motorola, the slimest and most highly effective 4G LTE QWERTY mobile phone providing the power and abilities to deal with even the most strenuous way of life. Verizon wifi Wireless carries the way in 4G with the quickest and most trusted 4G system in the U.S. Declares, masking more than 200 thousand people in 190 marketplaces. The DROID 4 will be in the Verizon wifi unit as well as in the Motorola unit.

Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.



Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.

PARIS — Pedro Winter loves electronic music, but perhaps not as much as electronic music loves Pedro Winter.



Mr. Winter, 36, is the gangly and genial godfather of the French electro scene, the manager, producer and D.J. widely credited with the rise and global spread of the eclectic genre known as French Touch. As a manager, Mr. Winter was behind the electro-wizardry of Daft Punk, the duo that brought French house to the mainstream beginning in the late 1990s. More recently he discovered, nurtured and produced Justice, whose heady, rock-inspired nu-disco is wildly popular, and hailed as some of the most inventive and listenable electronic music of the day.

White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight.