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Stories by Elizabeth Montalbano

Article | 29/05/2009 Microsoft picks Bing as name for new search engine

Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine, putting to rest months of speculation of what the next iteration of Live Search w...

Article | 29/05/2009 Microsoft Bing a good start, but no game changer

Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, will help the company gain some search share against Google and has features that users will find helpful, but it...

Article | 28/05/2009 Autonomy tool analyzes data from Facebook, social networks

Autonomy is giving businesses a way to analyze and react to discussion of their products and services on social media sites.

Article | 27/05/2009 Sources: UI features, 'search mashups' on tap for Kumo

The new search engine Microsoft is expected to launch this week boasts features to improve the relevance of search query results, partly by letting us...

Article | 25/05/2009 Microsoft cuts IM service to five 'hostile' nations

Microsoft has stopped offering its Windows Live Messenger service to users in five countries that are subject to U.S. sanctions, the company confirmed...

Article | 22/05/2009 Microsoft's Kumo search engine creates buzz

Microsoft has not even released or confirmed next week's rumored release of its Kumo search engine, and already the industry is speculating what the n...

Article | 22/05/2009 Jury orders Microsoft to pay $200 million in patent dispute

A jury in Texas has ordered Microsoft to pay a Toronto software company US$200 million for patent infringement involving several of its software produ...

Article | 21/05/2009 Ozzie: E-mail, collaboration will drive move to cloud

Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, which is still i...

Article | 20/05/2009 Microsoft adds Netflix to Windows Media Center

Microsoft is adding Netflix to the list of content providers in its Windows Media Center feature for Vista PCs as part of the company's drive to give ...

Article | 20/05/2009 Flock enhances social browser's links to Twitter, Facebook

Flock has released a new version of its social browser that improves its links to social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Article | 19/05/2009 Microsoft-led forum yields tools for OOXML interoperability

A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software they're developing can support documents compatible with the late...

Article | 18/05/2009 Emulex fends off Broadcom once more

Emulex has once again rejected an attempt by Broadcom to take over the company, reiterating its stance that the bid undervalues the company and does n...

Article | 18/05/2009 Mozilla to designers: Help us build better Firefox tabs

Mozilla Labs is challenging Web designers to help it find a more innovative way to represent browser tabs.

Article | 12/05/2009 Microsoft: Windows 7 available in time for holidays

Microsoft will make Windows 7 available to businesses and consumers in time for the typically busy holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter of th...

Article | 11/05/2009 Competitors grouse over IE8 default setting in Windows 7

As the browser wars have heated up again, so have complaints that Microsoft is once again unfairly leveraging its Windows OS - this time Windows 7 - t...