ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Brazil is on the way to becoming Google Inc's sixth-largest global market, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday as the company opens new offices in the fast-growing Latin American region.

Software giant Microsoft said it plans to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) this spring.

Under the category of artificial intelligence, it represents both a loss and a triumph for humans.

One of Watson's collaborators, Eric Nyberg from Carnegie Mellon University, shares the robot's strengths, weaknesses and its future.

Watson finished its first (of three) round of bout against legendary human players Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. It is tied for first with $5,000 with Rutter while Jennings has $2,000.

A video from Microsoft shows of the potential for gameplay interactions between Kinect and Windows Phone 7.

IBM's Watson computing system will take on two former Jeopardy! champions in the first man-machine match on the popular TV quiz show this February.

Google and European Union regulators are in tentative talks to resolve an antitrust probe against the Internet's dominant search engine, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.

Google and European Union regulators are in tentative talks to resolve an antitrust probe against the Internet's dominant search engine, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.

Google Inc wants to avoid a lengthy legal battle with European Union regulators investigating its market dominance, the Sunday Telegraph quoted its chief executive as saying.

Google Inc on Tuesday began a public search for an executive missing in Cairo, where the Internet company has offered tools to help Egyptians communicate amid chaotic protests.

Google Inc said on Tuesday that its Middle East and North Africa marketing head is missing in Egypt.

Microsoft's Kinect is starting to mount a credible challenge to the Nintendo Wii.

Investors brushed aside concerns that a surprise shake-up at Google Inc putting co-founder Larry Page back in the top job would prove a distraction at a critical time and focused instead on the company's stellar results.

Internet powerhouse Google Inc beat Wall Street's quarterly sales and profit estimates, and announced that co-founder Larry Page would take on the role of chief executive, overseeing day-to-day operations of the company. Its shares rose 1.9 percent.

Internet powerhouse Google Inc beat Wall Street's quarterly sales and profit estimates, and announced that co-founder Larry Page would take on the role of chief executive, overseeing day-to-day operations of the company. Its shares rose 1.4 percent.

On Thursday IBM demonstrated Watson, a computer consisting of a roomful of the company's Power7 processors -- sophisticated enough that it can understand language well enough to figure out the wordplay that makes up a Jeopardy! question.

Google Inc won a small battle in its larger war to make inroads into government contracting when a federal judge ordered the Interior Department to rethink a proposed bid for a contract for email services.

PCs join the motion bandwagon and get their own interface device, the Wavi Xtion.

Facebook surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.

Google Inc has asked some manufacturers to delay the launch of TV sets based on the internet company's software, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans.