Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search accelerator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays results as soon as people begin typing their requests.

Apple Inc.'s new music-discovery feature, Ping, is a potentially useful addition to iTunes. With it, you can see what songs your friends are buying and recommend some of your favourites to them.

Salmon have been an integral part of the life and culture of people on Canada's West Coast since time began. They're also essential to coastal ecosystems, providing food for bears, eagles, insects, and other animals, and contributing to the magnificence of coastal rainforests by transferring nitrogen and other nutrients to the forest floor when bears and birds feed on them.

Oracle Corp. plans to pay newly appointed co-president Mark Hurd a base salary of US$950,000 annually and said the ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO is eligible for a target bonus of $5 million in the current fiscal year.

Galvanic Applied Sciences Inc. said Wednesday it earned $265,374 in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, reversing a loss in the year-earlier period while revenue inched up.

Oracle plans to pay newly appointed President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 a year. The company also says the former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO, who was ousted by that company last month, is eligible for a fiscal 2011 bonus of $5 million.

MKS Inc. (TSX:MKX) says its first-quarter profit fell below US$1 million, as sales of software licences dropped off.

Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people, drew a pay package worth about US$70 million in the company's most recent fiscal year.

For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.

Oracle Corp. has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker in a pivotal moment in Oracle's 33-year history as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf.

A new study suggests that birds are likely dying in oilsands tailings ponds at at least 30 times the rate suggested by industry and government.

Snowboardcross was the most hazardous sport at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with nearly 75 per cent of female athletes sustaining injuries during the rough-and-tumble races, according to a medical study.

Cantronic Systems Inc. (TSXV:CTS) of Vancouver has won a C$3.9 million contract to install video surveillance systems for Haicheng City in China's Liaoning province.

HONOLULU (AP) - A University of Hawaii professor is using slight movements of bridges to generate power for sensors that monitor their stresses and deterioration.

East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.

Canadian and American astronauts say the world needs to prepare for the big one — the asteroid impact that could one day devastate the Earth.

The showdown over 3Par Inc. that ended Thursday was a puzzling spectacle.

Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker.

Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week.

Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.