Previously restricted to Google Maps, Google now takes its digital coupons mobile.

roundup From Firefox to IE and from Chrome to Opera and Safari, there's no sitting still for browser makers looking to keep their products fresh and competitive.

AP - Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give existing shareholders control over the company.

For five bucks a month, users get unlimited streams, plus some interesting social-networking and online radio features.

Software vendors may lose out in the new open-source economy that empowers users to write more software.

AP - Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.

Just before the holiday season, Amazon has announced that it's offering some small but notable upgrades to its Kindle e-book reader.

Lawmakers may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories may have misrepresented the truth about climate change.

Google's feed reader gets support for site favicons, which let users see a site's visual browser identity right from the publication's source list.

Macworld.com - Amazon has an early Thanksgiving gift for all you Kindle 2 owners out there. The company has just announced an upcoming firmware update for its six-inch e-book reader that adds a big new feature: native PDF support.

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. says it has completed its $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA.

AP - Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation's two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Thursday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening.

AP - U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company.

NewsFactor - On the heels of Google's Teracent acquisition, TiVo has announced a deal of its own with the search giant. TiVo has entered into an audience-research agreement with Google to empower the Google TV Ads platform.

AP - Two men accused of the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. have been acquitted on two counts, but they could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked.

The second wave of government smart grid funding totals $620 million to install network-savvy grid equipment and to test utility-scale storage.

A new partnership between the two companies will help Google determine how TiVo owners--even the ones really good at fast-forwarding--still see some ads.

PC Magazine - On the heels of a judge's decision to allow Verizon to continue running commercials that attack AT&T's 3G network, Apple has a new an iPhone ad campaign that defends AT&T's capabilities.

AFP - Canadian Internet service providers will be required to report online child pornography to police under proposed legislation the government unveiled Tuesday.

PC World - One of the most notorious U.S.-based spammers was sentenced to more than four years in jail on Monday for a scheme that used spam to manipulate stock prices in order to make a profit.

AFP - Adconion Media Group announced Tuesday it has acquired the assets of Joost, an online video portal from the founders of Skype that failed to live up to its pre-launch buzz.

PC World - Apple's jumping into the battle that sees Verizon Wireless and AT&T flaming each other in advertisements, but unlike AT&T's recent effort to defend itself, Apple's new pair of iPhone ads are actually good.

AFP - EU competition regulators ended antitrust action against Qualcomm on Tuesday after rivals withdrew complaints that the US microchip company had abused its dominant power in 3G markets.

AP - The struggling online video startup Joost (juice-st) is being sold to an online advertising company that plans to continue operating its Web site under the same name.

AP - Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it is axing 220 jobs at research and development units in Japan as the world's largest mobile phone maker continues to cut costs.

AFP - The European parliament approved Tuesday a major overhaul of EU telecoms law aimed at boosting the rights of European mobile phone and Internet users and protection against access restrictions.

The company that was supposed to kill YouTube is finally dead: some of its assets have been sold off to ad network Adconion Media in what's likely a total fire sale.

Google asks programmers to start adding their Chrome extensions to the new gallery. Chrome users can't yet download them, though.

The Oyster converter starts making electricity using a simple design of a flap moved by waves that pumps water underground to an onshore hydro-electric turbine.

AP - European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees.