Google Sued Over Search Suggestion

Google on Tuesday was sued in a Wisconsin court for allegedly violating the privacy rights of Beverly Stayart, an animal rights activist and the CFO and director of business development at Stayart Law Offices, the firm filing the complaint. The lawsuit claims that Google is responsible for suggesting the search term “bev stayart levitra” as [...]

Nokia and Intel To Make MeeGo a Force in Smartphone Market

Nokia and Intel are collaborating on a joint operating system called MeeGo, and while the news was announced in February, new details have slowly been emerging. MeeGo is a combination of two operating systems: Nokia’s Maemo, an open source development platform used on the N900 mobile computer and Intel’s Moblin project, a netbook and embedded [...]

Ferrari 599XX Laps Nürburgring in 6 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Ferrari is the latest manufacturer to claim a lap record on the famed Nürburgring, with the race-ready 599XX. ( Click here to read our review of the burly beast.) Test driver Raffaele De Simone lapped the German track just in 6 minutes, 58 seconds. Click here to watch an in-car video of the lap. Ferrari [...]

BMW Says It Will Build Gran Coupé Concept

The sleek, 7-series-based four-door concept from Beijing will make it to production. After a two-year hiatus in which the project sat on the shelf, BMW’s 7-series-sized four-door “coupe” is back on again. The licorice-black Gran Coupé concept shown in Beijing at a private reveal for journalists “will be built” according to BMW head of design, [...]

Could this be the new iPhone?

It sounds too good to be true, and it just might be. An Apple employee reportedly left a prototype of the new iPhone at a bar, and it ended up in the hands of a gadget blog. Photos of the fourth-generation iPhone prototype first appeared on the tech blog Engadget over the weekend. The site [...]

Toyota recalls 9,400 Lexus GX 460 SUVs

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced a recall of 2010 model year Lexus GX 460 SUVs. The recall is related to an increased risk of rollover. The recall covers about 9,400 SUVs in the United States. The automaker recently suspended sales of the luxury SUV after a report Tuesday by the magazine Consumer Reports. The magazine [...]

iFixIt: new MacBook Pro battery 6% larger

Although it looks identical to its predecessor, Apple has made quite a few subtle tweaks to its latest professional notebook, the MacBook Pro Core i5. The crew at iFixIt tore it down to find out what Apple changed under the hood. I had suspected that Apple had increase the battery capacity, and sure enough, the [...]

Twitter Working on an Official Android OS App

A Twitter co-founder has promised that there is going to offer an official Android OS app for using this social-networking service. This follows on the heels of announcements of official iPhone and Blackberry Twitter apps. Although Evan Williams made this commitment this week, he didn’t give any details on when the software will be released. [...]

Google Apps Goes After Microsoft Office

An early peek at the upgraded Google Apps and an exclusive series of interviews with Google engineers reveals how the productivity apps have been formulated to take on a bigger role in the office — and a bite out of Microsoft’s Office suite. In a play for a bigger chunk of business users in the [...]