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Frequently requested documents and improved search and viewing features have been added to the electronic reading room, which is now called The Vault.

The engineering organization aims to develop a cloud portability roadmap and interoperability standards, while breaking down single-vendor formats.

The Federal Trade Commission could be the latest agency to investigate the search leader, which has already come under scrutiny in Texas and in the EU.

Symantec report finds that the daily threat volume, sophistication, and cost of security breaches have escalated since 2009.

A Facebook app encourages people to join the campaign and invite their friends, and the website solicits donations.

Besieged by patent claims, Google is arming to defend itself, and perhaps to enter new markets.

Most scams involved online account takeover or theft, according to a study commissioned by security vendor Guardian Analytics and conducted by Ponemon Institute.

Channel Intelligence's Where to Buy Facebook helps brands use the social network to direct consumers to the retailers that sell their wares.

Capital One, Brookstone, JP Morgan Chase, and TiVo have issued warnings to their customers, and presumably other Epsilon clients have as well.

Prepackaged exploits are helping attackers compromise more sites at once, while many content management systems are running with known vulnerabilities, finds report from HP DVLabs.

The 20th update in five months adds features that make it easier to chat and access Twitter without leaving the browser.

Broadvision is providing a free, stripped-down version of its enterprise product for businesses looking for a simple way to offer social networking functionality to employees.

Broadvision has introduced Clearvale Express, a SaaS-based social networking/enterprise 2.0 application that makes it possible for a company to provide workers with a Twitter-like activity stream that lets you know what your colleagues are working on, collaborate on files and tasks, and build collaborative communities. Workers can follow other users and view a simple Facebook-like profile wall on each user of the company network within Clearvale Express. The application is a stripped down version of Broadvision's full enterprise-class Clearvale. For small businesses or departments looking for a way to add a social element to business interactions, it can be an effective tool. Businesses and organizations using Clearvale Express that want to invite users with different email domains to collaborate with their employees need to make sure at sign-up that they use the link for membership organizations, as the default sign-up for Clearvale Express works only if all member of the network have the same email domain.

The scareware sends users to a bogus Web page warning them that their PCs are infected with malware and tries to sell them an anti-virus application.

Redmond should be innovating in areas like semantic search instead of getting wrapped up in legal actions against its rival.

Java and Python software development kits get upgraded as Google refreshes its platform-as-a-service offering.

The formal complaint with European Union regulators says Google is not playing fair in capturing the lion's share of ad revenue from search.

PayPal, eBay, and the customers of at least 15 banks were targeted by the eliminated botnet.