I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.
Microsoft launched a campaign today to enlist supporters in its opposition to a new advertising collaboration deal between Google and Yahoo, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Microsoft shouldn't be worried about Google's move into the enterprise applications space but Microsoft is shaping up to be more of a challenger to Google's online ads business, according to Gartner.
The bold bid unveiled by Microsoft for Yahoo would create a technology titan of unprecedented size to challenge the Internet leadership established by Google, analysts believe.
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This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Sydney-based start-up Streem yesterday formally launched a new online news site, saying it would differ from traditional media outlets by paying readers a small fee for any content they submitted.
Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney".
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
Mashups involving digital maps are bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, with uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organising.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is now a Microsoft brand.
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AOC's latest 19-inch monitor from its Jenio range has brilliant colours and great ergonomics, but we would have liked to have seen a faster refresh rate than 60Hz at its native resolution.
The VGNBZ15GN is Sony's latest business laptop in the VAIO range, and includes the new Centrino 2 platform. A heavy machine with strong performance, but let down by poor battery life.
NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.
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