

By Cathy Ruse
Birth control mandate a sin against liberty
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
So you love your iPad, but you wish you could work on Microsoft Office software, watch Flash video and generally have more of a PC-like experience? OnLive Desktop is one way you can.
Here are some key developments in Google's Inc.'s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.:
Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.
Key developments in the eight years since Facebook Inc.'s creation:
Some key developments in the eight years since Facebook Inc.'s creation:

Google is introducing a new tool designed to make its search engine smarter.
Although Mother's Day is just behind us, the spring-summer gift-giving season is by no means over. For graduates and for dads, a tech gift might loom large. (And if Mom wasn't happy with the "Hunger Games" book set you presented, something tech-oriented might get you out of the doghouse.)
Google is introducing a new tool, designed to make its search engine smarter.
When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown to the public.
Key events involving Yahoo Inc. and its performance:
Some key developments in the eight years since Facebook Inc.'s creation:
Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google.
FACEBOOK FRIENDLY: Microsoft's Bing search engine is switching to a new format that will sort results into three different columns. The centerpiece will be a feature called "Sidebar" that will highlight friends in a users' Facebook network who might have insights to share about a search request.

The small, upstart party known as the Pirates has the German political establishment sitting up and taking notice.