Morgan Stanley is testing software that could turn its Microsoft browsers into Google browsers.

At the big-name financial house, employees have no choice but to use Internet Explorer 7, a Microsoft web browser that made its debut in October of 2006. Like so many large corporations, Morgan Stanley limits employee machines to certain approved software — working to maintain security while ensuring that applications work as they should — but such well-intentioned policies can also keep newer software at bay.

“We’re a bank, you know, so it’s not so simple to make the switch to a newer browser,” says ...

Somewhere in the bureaucratic bowels of the Department of Homeland Security is a videotape shot above the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica on May 24, 2010. It could reveal whether the Jamaican security forces, acting on behalf of U.S. prosecutors, killed 73 members of a notorious crime syndicate or innocent civilians caught in house-to-house fighting. That is, if anyone in a position of power actually wants that question answered.

Over 500 Jamaican soldiers rushed into the teeming Tivoli Gardens neighborhood that day for what became known as Operation Garden Parish, a mission...