As ReadWriteWeb points out, the game is increasingly Firefox’s to lose. Internet Explorer used to command 96 percent of the market. Now it’s struggling to hold onto 80 percent, with Firefox chipping away, 1 percent at a time.

Unlike Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which relied on all sorts of tricks and tying to achieve its dominant status,
Firefox’s [...]

Meanwhile, the CNET Tech Index, like the broader markets, fell more than 5 percent. The CNET Tech Index fell 72.43 points to 1,204.24, or 5.67 percent.

In the tech sector, Microsoft closed down 5.98 percent to $23.42 a share; Cisco Systems was down 7.14 percent to $19 a share; Apple was down 8.9 percent to $89.41 [...]

• Google’s cost per click–the amount advertisers pay on average–increased 13.8 percent in the second quarter. Microsoft’s increased 5.6 percent, but Yahoo’s dropped 7.3 percent, Efficient Frontier said.

Google dominates the share of search ad spending measured by Efficient Frontier.

According to the statistics from search marketing firm Efficient Frontier, which bases its conclusions on data from a [...]

Nobody’s surprised that the same old legal and moral issues about sex have made their way to the Internet, but dealing with them has been tough. For example, MySpace.com grappled for months with sex offender issues, and in January unveiled a plan to make its site safer for teens.

A panel of the Brazilian senate has [...]