Big Tech

Reuters reports that Facebook is making enough money to cover its costs and now has 300 million users, proving the Internet's newest star industry can be a viable business.

Reuters reports that Google has claimed that Apple rejected its Google Voice application for the iPhone, contradicting Apple's statement to regulators last month.

Google yesterday reported a record quarterly profit as the Internet giant proclaimed the economic downturn is coming to an end and declared its Android mobile platform is "about to explode."

Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle, reports Reuters.

The BBC reports that Microsoft says it has now recovered the personal data lost when its Sidekick servers suffered an outage on 13 October.

Unstrung, citing research from New York-based financial analyst firm Jefferies & Co, reports that Google's Android platform will help the company's mobile search revenue cross the US$500 million mark in 2011, up from roughly US$180 million in FY 2009.

US operator T-Mobile has halted sales of the Sidekick device after a server caused customers to lose personal data, reports the BBC. Microsoft subsidiary Danger, which designed Sidekick's software and service, confirmed the disruption.