Tag: Google

  • Google, Microsoft, Palm Jockey in Smartphone Race

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Palm Inc stepped up efforts to bolster their smartphone line-ups, as the tech industry’s key players increasingly move to challenge Apple Inc’s popular iPhone. In a flurry of announcements on Tuesday ahead of the holiday shopping season, the companies introduced new phones, wireless carrier partnerships and efforts to… Read more

  • Microsoft Freezes Research Budget, Girds for Google Fight

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google Inc’s dominance in the Internet search market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters on Monday. "No, I wouldn’t expect it," he said when asked whether acquisitions would be part of the strategy. Microsoft recently agreed to a search partnership… Read more

  • IBM Targets Google With Online Email

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    (Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business… Read more

  • Spear Phishers Go Casting in Google Wave

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google is making waves with Wave, its new collaboration platform that enables users to share a common browser-based workspace. It’s not generally available; Google yesterday opened the platform up to 100,000 beta testers and developers to get feedback on performance and functionality. And that scarcity of availability is precisely what spear phishers wanted. Websense issued… Read more

  • Google CEO Anticipates One Small Acquisition Per Month

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc expects to buy one small company a month as it rekindles its acquisition engine and moves beyond the worst phase of the global recession, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Wednesday. The Web search giant has historically maintained a steady pace of acquiring small, privately held companies, but… Read more

  • Microsoft Puts Web-Based Office Apps into Beta

    Carolyn April

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    In a telling move that indicates the momentum of cloud computing, Microsoft this week placed into technical preview its forthcoming Web versions of its juggernaut Office suite. Originally announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in July, the now officially dubbed Office Web Apps are lightweight versions of their on-premises counterparts. The technical preview program will… Read more