Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
Mozilla's Firefox 1.5 browser is packed with new features.
Venerable Internet Explorer is showing its age among the hot, young field of browsers led by Mozilla's Firefox.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in a video interview.
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months a far cry from what most companies currently do.
Microsoft has updated its privacy policy promising to remove the Internet Protocol (IP) address and other identifying data associated with Web searches after 18 months.
Microsoft and Yahoo are set go public on their privacy policies after the controversy surrounding search giant Google's data-retention strategy.
Google has made a minor change to its homepage, adding a link that leads to the company's Privacy Center Web page.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
Craig Silverstein -- Google's technology director and employee No. 1 -- discusses the future of search.
Busy? A slew of technologists want to help you manage your time, by overhauling the wall calendar.
Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.
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