By Ryan Singel
Internet ad networks have been following you around the net, watching what you do to serve you targeted ads. But now federal regulators are starting to follow them around, trying to figure out whether they are playing fair with U.S. consumers.
Foremost among those networks is Google.
Most people think of Google as a search [...]

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
 

Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired, believes in logic the way Tina Brown believes in buzz. He rarely approves a story idea unless the writer backs up the thesis with data. The basis of his best-selling book “The Long Tail” was a statistical phenomenon called the Pareto distribution; in his coming [...]

By MIGUEL HELFT
 

Every new online search service must face the inevitable question: “Is it better than Google?”
WolframAlpha, a powerful new service that can answer a broad range of queries, has become one of the most anticipated Web products of the year. But its creator, Stephen Wolfram, wants to make something clear: Despite the online chatter [...]

By STEVE LOHR
 

Now that the federal government plans to spend $19 billion to spur the use of computerized patient records, the challenge of adopting the technology widely and wisely is becoming increasingly apparent.
Two articles, to be published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the formidable obstacles to achieving the policy [...]

By Steve Lohr

Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America’s doctors practice medicine.
Wal-Mart’s move comes as the Obama administration is trying to jumpstart the adoption of digital medical records with $19 billion of incentives in [...]