The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday--an entire week before the device goes on sale. Frankly, one shouldn't encourage such behavior by actually covering it. But if I were in Manhattan--instead of Austin, Texas--I, too, would have interviewed them in person by now. The queue ......

Update at 12:35 p.m. and 3:50 p.m.: Comments from privacy advocates have been added. Google apparently decided to keep it clean, in more ways than one. The company has made a minor change to its home page, adding a link to its copyright line that leads ......

Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Thursday, were not released. Lexico, ......

The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press. "The child has been returned to his parents," prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told the AP on Thursday. The parents had told the ......

VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week. Jim Bidzos(Credit: VeriSign) The company said Thursday that William Roper had resigned as of Monday. Roper, who had served as CEO for just over a ......