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Article | 30/07/2009 Yahoo Search: RIP
Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who ...
Article | 18/07/2009 A guide to online data syncing services
Remember the early days of PDAs? They revolutionized the concept of a planner by combining calendars, contacts and notes into a compact, easy-to-carry...
Article | 18/07/2009 Chrome OS may fail even as it changes computing forever
Google says it is working on an operating system designed for netbooks that boots in seconds, is impervious to viruses, and is designed to run Web-bas...
Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft, Google make sure IT has no dull moments
Microsoft is launching Windows 7, Google has fired back with Chrome OS, and today Microsoft is turning up the volume on Office 2010. That's a lot to j...
Article | 11/07/2009 Does Google know too much about you?
Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonde...
Article | 10/07/2009 Google: the world's most successful failure?
The amazing thing about Google is how a business that makes 97 percent of its revenue selling advertising has people convinced that it is a technology...
Article | 9/07/2009 FAQ: Google Chrome OS
News of Google's Chrome operating system is sending waves though the tech world with some saying the OS signals the beginning of the end for Microsoft...
Article | 9/07/2009 Searching where Google can't
We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, informa...
Article | 1/07/2009 YouTube readies redesign amid chorus of complaints
YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people w...
Article | 30/06/2009 Google and Grameen launch mobile services for the poor
Google has launched its SMS service and a new SMS-based classifieds system in Uganda, in collaboration with the Grameen Foundation and mobile operator...
Article | 19/06/2009 China orders Google to suspend foreign site searches
China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state ...
Article | 18/06/2009 Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?
Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0....
Article | 4/06/2009 New search tool Google Squared goes live
Google Squared, a new search tool that Google described last month, is now live. Squared pulls information about members of a category from all over t...
Article | 4/06/2009 Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'
Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on...
Article | 1/06/2009 Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?
Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something...