New legislation from Congress would block access to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools and libraries, including instant-messaging services. The kids love MySpace, but the kids may soon have to love it at home. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., aims at protecting minors from online child predators

California-based Google, one of the hottest companies around, has embraced a hot trend in animal rights -- cage-free eggs. The company will require that all of its cafes and cafeterias serve only the pricier cage-free eggs, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Google uses about 300,000 eggs a year along with 7,000 pounds of liquid egg products

Google has launched an array of new products in its battle with Microsoft over user-functions on the Internet, hoping to challenge the software giant's traditional hegemony. Among the features unveiled by Google founder Larry Page Thursday are a new version of its desktop search service and Google Notebook - a challenge to Microsoft's Clipboard that allows users to clip and copy numerous segments of text from the internet

A growing number of Chinese youngsters are finding love on the Internet through an online meeting place known as Bulletin Board System or BBS. Li Mei met her boyfriend Liu Wei in a chat room called "Pie Love", set up by the well-known Shuimu Tsinghua BBS (SMTH), which is run by students from prestigious Tsinghua University here. Four months later, Mei and Wei are engaged

Sharp Corp. is going head-to-head with TV-compatible computers by equipping its flat-panel TVs with hard disks and Internet capability. Its new liquid crystal display TVs will let people watch TV programs, surf the Internet and view broadband video on a large, high-definition screen, all with the push of a remote-control button. Sharp aims to leverage its strength in state-of-the-art LCD panels by enhancing the Internet experience

FreeBSD developers continue to improve the FreeBSD 6.X operating system branch with the release of version 6.1 this week. The new release boasts a few new features, some performance enhancements and lots of bug fixes, which will improve the overall stability of the open source operating system. Though it doesn't receive the same level of attention as its open source cousin Linux, FreeBSD's roots go back somewhat deeper

Almost since its inception, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have believed in its IPO prospectus statement of Don't Be Evil. That was billions of dollars ago. But questions of whether Google is in fact evil or not are still being asked. Brin and Page responded to the latest round during a press event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters today. Brin was the first to answer a question about Google living up to its don't be evil policy

Google is driven by search. That may seem brain-dead obvious. But with the world's biggest Internet search company expanding to other areas, such as social networking, company CEO Eric Schmidt took pains to underscore that Google's mission hasn't changed. "Search is the unifying solution," said Schmidt at an event here for press and analysts at the company's headquarters

After launching the Novell Open Workgroup Suite which gives customers an open, low-cost alternative to the Windows solution later this month, Novell will also launch Bandit, an open-source identity management project that was started earlier this year and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffe stated. The two new products will repackage its Linux offering to make it more of interest to corporate clients

Although many reports have reported lately that Windows Vista will reduce the need for separate security solutions, Symantec does not appear to be scared. In a press conference CEO John Thompson said that Symantec will "out-innovate" Microsoft, and said "we know more about security than they ever will." "Microsoft brand is synonymous with a lot of things. Security is not one of them," he added