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/ 2 November 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced online versions of its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google and other fast-moving challengers. With Windows Live, Microsoft hopes to create a new platform that will unfasten some of its applications from a computer hard drive.
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/ 29 October 2005
A federal judge has rebuffed Google’s attempt to remove court-ordered restrictions limiting its employment of prized computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, whose recent defection from Microsoft exposed the escalating tensions between two of the world’s best-known companies.
Yahoo chairperson Terry Semel belittled rival Google’s recent efforts to expand beyond its leading internet search engine, describing the diversification as a haphazard attempt to catch up with his company. ”So far they don’t seem to have a plan, but maybe they do,” Semel said on Thursday.
Google wants to connect all of San Francisco to the internet with a free wireless service, creating a springboard for the online search-engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry. The company filed an application on Friday to provide a wireless service that would enable anyone in San Francisco to connect to the internet.
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/ 27 September 2005
Google will stop boasting on its home page about the number of web pages it has stored in its index, even as the online search engine leader continues a crusade to prove it scans substantially more material than its rivals. The company planned to remove the index size late on Monday.
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/ 3 September 2005
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to ”kill” internet search leader Google in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive ”like wolves”, according to documents filed in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals. The allegations were filed on Friday in a Washington state court.
Hoping to pave a new path to its popular website, Yahoo has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customised information without opening a web browser.
Hoping to build upon the power of its internet leading search engine, Google is believed to be developing an online payment system that that would pose a stiff challenge to online auctioneer eBay’s industry-dominating PayPal service. Google declined to comment, but the company’s silence didn’t muffle the buzz about a service that would set up a showdown between two internet powerhouses.
Google shareholders got a free lunch on Thursday at the online search engine leader’s first annual meeting as a public company. There were plenty of leftovers. Fewer than 200 people attended the meeting at the company’s Mountain View headquarters — a high-tech mecca known as the ”Googleplex.”
Yahoo’s steeply discounted foray into online music subscriptions struck a sour note on Wednesday with the shareholders of Napster and RealNetworks — the owners of the rival services that stand to lose the most from the new competitive
threat.