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/ 7 December 2006
Technology heavyweight Microsoft will unveil an online library on Thursday that will compete with Google’s controversial project to digitise the world’s books, the company said. Microsoft said it would launch a United States test of Live Search Books featuring tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books.
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/ 6 December 2006
Internet search giant Yahoo! announced on Tuesday that it was revamping its structure and management to better cash in on its popularity and potential as an advertising vehicle. Dan Rosensweig will step down as chief operating officer in March of next year and the company will be divided into three groups, one devoted to technology and two that will be ”customer focused”, according to Yahoo!
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/ 30 November 2006
Microsoft will announce availability of business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system on Thursday, according to analysts invited to a release event in New York City. The final version of Microsoft’s Office 2007 business applications software is to be available along with Vista.
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/ 25 October 2006
Google announced this week that bloggers and website operators are free to customise its powerful search engine and put it on their internet pages complete with money-making ads. Google Custom Search Engine provides online tools to tailor query boxes for websites or blogs in a guided step-by-step process.
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/ 25 October 2006
Mozilla on Tuesday released a new version of its Firefox web browser that has gained popularity as a free alternative to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer software. In the two years since its release by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox browser has won millions of devotees worldwide.
SanDisk Corporation introduced the world’s highest-capacity flash-memory MP3 player on Monday and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apple’s iPods. The player features eight gigabytes of flash-based memory, expandable to 10 gigabytes, which translates into the potential to store as many as 2 500 songs.
Apple showcased its Leopard operating system, due out next year, to the cheers of software developers gathered for a major conference in San Francisco on Monday. With its trademark theatrical flair, the maker of Macintosh computers and iPod music players demonstrated new Leopard features.
Key internet freedoms are under threat in a legal battle between online search leader Google and pornography publisher Perfect 10, a prominent internet rights foundation said on Wednesday. At issue is whether Google infringed on copyrights by creating links to Perfect 10 pictures copied from its website and posted elsewhere on the internet.
Yahoo! and Microsoft released software on Wednesday that built a bridge between their previously exclusive online instant messaging (IM) systems. The move fulfilled a promise the United States internet titans made late last year and marked the first time rival global messaging service providers arranged to co-mingle members.
The <i>MySpace</i> website deemed a virtual clubhouse where teenagers bare details of their lives has eclipsed internet oldster <i>Yahoo!</i> as the most popular website in the United States, a research firm said on Tuesday. Yahoo! rejected the claim as "misleading" because it ranked the search engine’s domains such as search, news, and e-mail separately instead of adding them together.