Google on Monday will begin giving users a new way to use their existing mobile phone number with parts of its Google Voice service. No, it’s not a full number port, which the company still says is coming and will eventually allow things like call screening, conference calling, or listening into a call before picking up–all with your existing number. Instead, Google is taking advantage of conditional call... 

Amazon.com is apparently shelving its planned effort to sell wine online. A little more than a year after word of the effort trickled out, a senior Amazon account manager told wineries in an e-mail that the company has decided “not to resume shipping.” “As you know, we were excited to work with you to build the AmazonWine business,” Dini Rao said in an e-mail first reported by WineBusiness.com.... 

Where Apple deserves the innovation credit Steve Jobs once said that Microsoft stole Windows from Apple, but there has been plenty of idea-snatching on both sides over the years. Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard each contain features that originated in the other OS. Some features were stolen so long ago that they’ve become part of the computing landscape, and it’s difficult to remember who invented...