With Apple’s iPad scheduled to go on sale on April 3, a new report indicates there may be strong pre-order demand. that could mean the iPad is on the verge of being a breakthrough product for tablet computers.

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that, according to unnamed sources, pre-orders have totaled “hundreds of thousands …

The Viacom-Google battle by YouTube’s alleged copyright infringement has been going on mostly behind the scenes for years. But court documents made public that week shed some light on the unfolding drama.

Viacom filed suit against Google in 2007 for allegedly allowing users to upload more than 100,000 videos clips containing copyrighted Viac…

A back-and-forth battle is brewing amoung Web search giant Google and media giant Viacom. Both companies are taking aggressive legal shots against each other after Viacom filed a copyright claim against Google’s YouTube service.

Google has fired back, saying Viacom illegally uploaded videos to YouTube, according to documents filed with U.S. …

In a possible sign of the sea change that social networking has brought to the Net, new industry info show that U.S. visits to Facebook last week exceeded, for the first moment, those to the former top site, Google. While the difference was relatively small for the week ending March 13 — 7.07 percent of all visits for Facebook, compared to 7….

Mobile applications are one of the fastest-growing segments of the high-tech economy, with some analysts estimating an $11 billion industry by 2014. A report by the Yankee Group projects that U.S. consumers that year will spend $1.6 billion downloading apps that build mobile devices more fun or useful.

But Americans and Canadians are paying a prem…

Google’s Nexus One may have gotten off to a rocky start with consumers, but the “superphone” is making fast inroads with wireless carriers. Google that week started selling a Nexus One that will run on AT&T’s 3G network, and has additionally inked a deal with Sprint Nextel. Google previously struck deals with T-Mobile, V…

Taking one more step into the broadcasting world, Google is planning a web-based TV service in partnership with tech giants like Intel, Logitech and Sony. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the Google TV effort is in its preliminary stages.

The industry behemoths are reportedly collaborating on software that will help users navigate…