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Updates for the period of 1st June to 30th June
| Google Introduces Spreadsheet in Latest Shot at Microsoft | |
Google is set to launch a Web-based spreadsheet program that will
allow people to view and simultaneously edit data while conducting
"in-document" chat, continuing the Internet search
leader's expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft
Corp., a company product manager said.
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| Key Lieutenant to Microsoft CEO Leaves Company | |
Microsoft Corp. of late said that the executive leading the world's largest software
maker's marketing strategy to challenge rival Google Inc. has left the company, at a
time when Microsoft struggles to solidify new sources of revenue growth.
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| Tech Titans Lobby for National Consumer Privacy Laws | |
Major technology companies are clamoring for Congress to write uniform, national privacy
standards aimed at boosting customer confidence and relieving the industry from what some
consider a complex patchwork of state and local laws.
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| eBay To Go Head To Head Against Google For Online Ad Market | |
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eBay Inc. will enter the Web advertising market with eBay AdContext,
a move that catapults the Web auction powerhouse into direct competition
with online ad kingpin Google Inc. The system works similarly
to Google AdSense.
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| BBC to Take On Google and AOL | |
The BBC has outlined the scale of its global ambitions after the
director-general said its aim was to rival internet giants Google
and AOL. |
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| Windows Live Messenger Comes Out of Beta | |
The new Windows Live Messenger offers free video calling, interactive gaming,
and integration with other Microsoft Live services.
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| Yahoo Introduces Enhanced Online Instant Messaging | |
Yahoo fired back at rival Microsoft by unveiling a test version
of an enhanced, customizable online instant messaging (IM)
service.
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| Google Buys the Googleplex | |
The search king pays $319 million for its HQ and opens a data center
in Oregon. Google will buy the nearly 1 million-square-foot “Googleplex” Legacy Shoreline Center nearby for $319 million, to handle its rapid growth, and plans to open a computing center the size of two football fields outside Portland, Oregon. |
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| AOL Seeks a Buyer for British Service Provider Business | |
AOL has put its UK internet service provider operation, which gave many British
consumers their first taste of the internet, up for sale, as it also exits French
and German businesses.
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| eBay Taps Opera To Go Mobile | |
eBay is piloting a scheme to bring its Online Marketplace service to mobile users in
Germany. Using a customized version of Opera's Mini mobile web browser, eBay and
Opera are creating a means for people to sell, bid and buy items using mobile
phones.
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| Microsoft in PDF Tussle with Adobe | |
Microsoft Corp. said it has cancelled plans to include an automatic way to save
documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software,
amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc. |
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| Google to Sell Dayparts | |
Google Inc. recently launched an AdWords feature
that lets advertisers increase or reduce bids for keywords and
pause ad campaigns during a specific time or day. |
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| Yahoo! Sued Over Google AdWords | |
Yahoo! has been sued for trademark infringement after posting
ads on Google. JPEnterprises, which runs the
US dating service lovecity.com, alleges that
Yahoo! bid for the term 'lovecity' in order to
run ads for its own dating system on Google. |
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| New Microsoft Antigen E-Mail Scanners Due July 1 | |
Microsoft is set to release a trial version of its Antigen e-mail security software,
and next month it will begin shipping the first major update to the product line since
purchasing Antigen’s creator, Sybari Software, in June 2005.
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| AOL To Enter Security Arena | |
Another big name has decided to throw its hat into the arena of security software.
AOL is joining Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, and several other companies in the
burgeoning market with tools designed to protect computers from malicious attacks.
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| Windows Live Gets a LifeCam | |
Microsoft has announced a line of Webcams that work with its Windows Live Messenger
program for video messaging or calling. |
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| Symantec to Keep Watch over Web Transactions | |
Symantec is readying a new security product designed to protect
consumers as they do business online. The software, called Norton
Confidential, will offer a shield against phishing Web
sites and malicious software that try to steal sensitive data.
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| Google Tries out Affiliate Ads | |
Google has jumped on the affiliate marketing bandwagon. The Internet search giant
confirmed lately that it is testing a new service that allows sites that host online
ads sold by Google to generate more revenue.
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| Warner Bros. Shows and Movies Now Legally Available for Download | |
Disney films such as "Glory Road" and the animated
"Chicken Little" will soon be available to own
via computer download from the Internet-based movie site CinemaNow,
but the movies cannot be played on a standalone DVD player. |
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| Zone Labs Updates Flagship Security Suite | |
Check Point Software Technologies recently released an update to ZoneAlarm that comes with new features to protect against identity theft. |
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| Google Rolls Out Ad-Supported Video Program | |
Google will launch a public test to show display and video ads
on Google Video, another step in the search giant's
slow exploration of graphical ads on its own services, according
to sources familiar with the plans.
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| Analyst: Google to Unveil PayPal Rival before July | |
Google's online payment system, Gbuy, is expected
to launch June 28, further pitting the Internet giant against
industry titan and rival eBay, according to a
research note released lately by a Wall Street analyst.
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| Microsoft Adds Two Universities to Live Book Search | |
Microsoft Corp. of late said that libraries of the University
of California and the University of Toronto have agreed to make
books available for scanning into Windows Live Book
Search.
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| China 'Blocks' Main Google Site | |
Chinese authorities have blocked most domestic users from the main Google.com search engine,
a media watchdog said.
Internet users in major Chinese cities faced difficulties accessing Google's international site in the past week, Reporters Without Borders said. But Google.cn, the controversial Chinese language version launched in January, has not been affected. |
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| Google Expected To Buy Another Online Office App | |
Google Inc. is likely to acquire this year a Web-based presentation
application, such as Thumbstacks, to add to its
online spreadsheet and word processor, a market research firm
said. |
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| Google Goes to Washington | |
Navigating government bureaucracy is not easy, but it may become faster with
Google's new search site for US federal, state and local government.
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| Yahoo Makes Web Video Search More Like TV Channels | |
Yahoo Inc. is making it easier for Web surfers to find videos by upgrading its search
system to become more like saving favorite TV channels with a remote control,
the company recently said in a statement.
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| Ask.com Launches New Blog Search Engine | |
Ask.com is all set to launch a new blog search service that aims to capitalize on the
fervent interest in the topics and debates covered by blogs that are not easy to find
on traditional online news sites.
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| Google Denies Web Browser Speculation | |
Google Inc. has no plans to build its own web browser software to compete with rival
Microsoft Corp, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement. |
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| Google's Latest: William Shakespeare | |
Stewing over exactly how Hamlet’s famous "To be or not to be" speech continueth?
Fear not, for Google hath come up with a William Shakespeare site where you can
search the celebrated writer’s plays to your heart’s content.
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| AOL to Revamp Its Netscape.com Web Portal | |
America Online is turning its Netscape.com portal on its head and embracing citizen
journalism, in which the community votes on what's news--not Netscape.com editors. |
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| Microsoft Taps Juniper for IPTV Security | |
Juniper Networks and Microsoft have announced a global agreement to boost the
security of IP networks, services and applications, in particular for service
provider customers of Microsoft TV IPTV Edition.
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| McAfee Announces Next-Gen Security Software | |
McAfee will soon release a completely redesigned version of its subscription-based
security suite, code-named "Falcon," designed to rival Symantec and newcomer
Microsoft. |
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| Ericsson Enters IPTV Battle | |
Ericsson is the latest telecommunications equipment maker
to enter the IPTV market Ericsson, at the GlobalComm trade show here, announced an end-to-end IPTV solution. The company unveiled a product suite that will enable phone companies to deploy Internet Protocol-based TV services. |
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| Skype Under Attack by Net2Phone | |
Newark-based internet telephony company, Net2Phone has taken on eBay and its
subsidiary peer-to-peer VoIP provider Skype in a lawsuit, alleging that Skype
has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net. |
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| Microsoft Software To Be In Qwest Offering | |
Microsoft Corp. lately said that its Internet security software will be included with
Qwest's high-speed Internet service, marking the first such partnership for the
software company's new online product. |
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| Google Develops Browser Sync Tool for Firefox | |
In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the
settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers.
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| TiVo Delivering Internet Video | |
New TivoCast service will allow subscribers to watch Internet
videos on their television TiVo Inc. recently expanded its Internet services to deliver online video from partners through its digital video recorder, a move that takes the company closer to competition with cable operators and other TV providers. |
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| Microsoft Developing Rival to Apple's iPod | |
Microsoft is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and
creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the
plans reported. |
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| Apple in Talks to Offer Movies at iTunes | |
Apple Computer is in talks with most of Hollywood's studios to
offer movie downloads via its popular iTunes Music Store
Web site, show business newspaper Daily Variety reported
recently.
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| BT Steps Up Home Broadband Battle | |
BT has stepped up the battle for integrated home media services
with the launch of BT Total Broadband. The telecoms
giant said the new service would bring together several broadband
products, including video on demand, internet calls and video
phones. |
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| Opera, Dressed to the Nines | |
Opera Software officially announced the release of Opera 9, the new browser
which includes support for "widgets," adds a security toolbar, and integrates
support for the BitTorrent search-and-download function straight out of the box.
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| Skype Software to Ship on Dell Laptops | |
Computer giant Dell has announced that it has paired off with global internet
communications company Skype in the latest tech sector marriage. Skype's voice
over Internet Protocol software that allows people to talk for free over the
Internet will soon be shipped on Dell's new XPS notebooks.
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| eBay To Unveil Further Skype Tie-Ins | |
Online marketplace eBay is set to detail this week how it plans to combine its Skype
Web telephone-call service into its core US auction business, executives said in a
statement.
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| Google Updates Online Mapping Tools | |
Google Upgrades Mapping Tools, Expands Satellite Imagery Google Inc. lately announced a major update for its popular satellite imagery and map products, one year after Google Earth was launched. The update includes a new user interface and additional tools to support user-generated content. |
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| CinemaNow Signs Fox to Movie and TV Download Deal | |
24 and Buffy Offered for Download CinemaNow of late announced that it will start selling movies and television shows from News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group, bolstering the site's content while consumer demand rises for legal video downloads. |
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| Google's Picasa Gets Web Capabilities | |
Google has introduced a new online photo-sharing feature called
"Web Album" to the Picasa software that is an-open-source
software, allowing users to post, organize, and share photo albums
on the Web. |
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| Google's Orkut Hit by Personal-Data-Stealing Worm | |
Company's social networking service has over 21 million members A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google Inc.'s social networking service, a computer security company warned. |
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| Verizon Accuses Vonage of VoIP Patent Infringement | |
Verizon Communications Inc. has charged that Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings
Corp. violated patent rights that Verizon has on technology for making phone calls
over the Internet.
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