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Articles on Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Competing browsers gain on Internet Explorer

Crave Internet Explorer rivals generally gained market share in figures from July, shown at top, and August. After resetting its methodology to better account for global variations, Net Applications' browser usage statistics ... Read story »

Second-generation Microsoft Bing coming soon

Crave Microsoft is getting ready to launch the next iteration of Bing, according to some wayward tweets. Mary-Jo Foley at our sister site ZDNet spotted a few eager Twitter users spilling the ... Read story »

Microsoft believes Windows 7 will ace Chrome OS, Apple

Crave Although the conventional wisdom is that the rise of the Netbook is hurting the Windows business, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday that lower-cost laptops can actually be a good thing. Speaking ... Read story »

Hands-on with Microsoft Office Web Apps

Crave Microsoft has finally started to open up its Web-based versions of Office apps to early testers. Last week we got access to a "technical preview" of Excel and PowerPoint on the ... Read story »

Rig your own Google Street View camera

Crave Ragsdale hooked his camera up to a jeep and drove around West Point at up to 100 kilometers per hour capturing images. He programmed his rig to take one set of ... Read story »

Nintendo is world best company

Blogs Video game giant edges out Google in the competition. Business Week compiled a list of the 40 World's Best Companies in 2009. Rival companies Sony and Microsoft are notably absent from ... Read story »

Windows Mobile 7 screenshots leaked

Crave A few screenshots of what's supposed to be a mockup of Windows Mobile (WM) 7 have been leaked, showing an improved finger-friendly interface. You can see the current WM6.5 above ... Read story »

Opera accused of censorship, betrayal by Chinese users

Blogs Opera, the maker of Web browsers such as the popular "Opera Mini" for Java-based mobile phones, has been accused of betraying its users in China, by apparently caving in to top-level ... Read story »

The best version of Windows yet for Netbooks

Blogs I was waiting to DESTROY the Linux OS which came with my Eee PC for some time now. It's bloody inflexible, requires you to know "sudo" crap, command lines cannot be ... Read story »

Microsoft gets ready to send the first suicide bomber to Google

Blogs Here's a thread which will get everybody up to speed: http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/4030311.htm So it seems Microsoft would pay News Corp to de-list its news sites from the Google search index. Bing is ... Read story »

Yahoo Mail still tops the email market

Crave Yahoo is still king of the email market as of June 2009, but Gmail has the most momentum. Google's Gmail is the fastest-growing email service on the planet, but it ... Read story »

Testing out Microsoft's Hohm energy monitoring beta

Crave Microsoft has developed a new Web site, called Hohm, which aims to help homeowners monitor and manage their power consumption. Microsoft opened up its Hohm Web application on Monday to ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS challenges Windows 7, while Microsoft Gazelle takes on Google Chrome browser

Blogs The fight between Google and Microsoft is heating up after Google announced its intention to enter the OS market via Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, which started as a browser, is now ... Read story »

Gmail exits beta after five years

Crave Earlier on today we took a potato out of the microwave. It wasn't done, so back in it went. A few minutes later, it was ready. That's basically the story ... Read story »

Google's Chrome OS on Netbooks doesn't scare Microsoft

Crave While it may not have the same buzz as a new iPhone, Google's announcement of a new computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser, has certainly set tongues wagging ... Read story »

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