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Article | 14/02/2008 Report: News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft

Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday...

Article | 13/02/2008 Vista SP1 prerequisites rolled up in Patch Tuesday update

Microsoft is including a set of nonsecurity updates that prepare customers to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as part of its monthly "Patch Tuesd...

Article | 13/02/2008 Yahoo buys Maven for $160 million

Yahoo has acquired Maven Networks for US$160 million in a deal that will help the search provider boost its video advertising capabilities.

Article | 13/02/2008 Mozilla offering limited live chat support for Firefox

Mozilla has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's e...

Article | 12/02/2008 Microsoft hints at Yahoo hostile takeover

Microsoft said its $US44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo is "fair" and hinted that it may pursue a hostile takeover of the Internet company, accordi...

Article | 11/02/2008 Microsoft nixes Vista SP1 for IT pros until later this month

Although Microsoft confirmed Monday that beta testers of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) can now download the final bits of the update, it will not...

Article | 11/02/2008 White-label social networking set for shake-up?

It's hard not to let out a low whistle when you scan <a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/12/list-of-white-label-social-networking-plat...

Article | 11/02/2008 Discovery Earth Live gives 3-D view of weather patterns

The Discovery Channel has launched a cool Web application that gives users a three-dimensional view of planet Earth and lets them manipulate the globe...

Article | 8/02/2008 Report: Yahoo said to beef up talks with Google

Yahoo has beefed up its talks with Google as it looks for alternatives to Microsoft's unsolicited US$44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a report ...

Article | 8/02/2008 Major vendors join OpenID board

IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify...

Article | 8/02/2008 Google intros Apps edition to bypass the IT department

Google is releasing a new edition of its hosted applications suite that end-users can bring into the workplace without the involvement of their IT dep...

Article | 7/02/2008 Microsoft Visio, meet Web 2.0

Microsoft's Visio, best known as software for making static flow charts, is evolving into a tool for creating 'live' data-fed diagrams akin to Web 2.0...

Article | 6/02/2008 Dell suit reveals lucrative trade in domain names

A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web ...

Article | 6/02/2008 MySpace launches developer platform

As expected, MySpace Tuesday launched a new site and released code that will allow developers to build applications for the popular social networking ...

Article | 5/02/2008 Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.

Article | 5/02/2008 Analyst: Microsoft 'frightened' of Google monopoly

As made abundantly clear with Friday's announcement, Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bid for search engine Yahoo was driven by the software giant's desire...

Article | 5/02/2008 Google releases code to help make social data portable

Google has unveiled a new API that it hopes will make data created by users of social networks portable.

Article | 5/02/2008 IDG revives The Industry Standard online

International Data Group (IDG) Monday relaunched an online-only version of The Industry Standard, once known as The Bible of the Internet economy, wit...

Article | 4/02/2008 Mozilla freezes Firefox 3.0 Beta 3

As Mozilla began the final push on Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 this week, it also announced that at least one more beta will be necessary before it starts buil...

Article | 4/02/2008 Google, Microsoft trade barbs over Yahoo bid

Google has made its first official comments on Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo saying that the deal raises "troubling questions" and that th...