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Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News StarOffice also faces increasing competition at the low end of the productivity market with a range of products, including Google Docs, ThinkFree Office, free and low-cost versions of Microsoft Works, as well as forthcoming web-based versions of...
[November 18, 2008, 9:50]
BT guns for Android and Skype with Ribbit buy
News The BT spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk in an email that the Ribbit acquisition would help BT "leapfrog competition and gain a strategic advantage in the Silicon Valley 'telco 2.0' platform race, which includes Google Android and Apple's iPhone...
[July 29, 2008, 13:03]
The UK's real missing skill: Imagination
Leader Not so it seems with Google, which last week brought its successful Code Jam programming competition/recruitment drive to Europe. More than 9,000 programmers entered the competition and were eventually whittled down to 50 finalists, who battled it...
[July 6, 2006, 13:10]
Microsoft: IE8 interface was priority over speed
News Competing browser, Chrome, has been touted by Google for its V8 Javascript engine, which the search giant claims is capable of processing Javascript applications much faster than the competition. Kirk Drage, Microsoft Asia-Pacific regional manager...
[September 10, 2008, 9:34]
Microsoft-Yahoo bid attracts regulatory 'interest'
News Google has also questioned whether the proposed deal would pass regulatory scrutiny. David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post on Friday: "Could the acquisition of Yahoo allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal...
[February 4, 2008, 12:03]
Facebook overtakes MySpace globally
News Orkut, run by Google, has a lock on Brazil and also a big portion of the market in India. This spring, the company recruited Elliot Schrage, vice president of global communications and public affairs at Google, to join its roster in a similar...
[June 23, 2008, 13:06]
IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears
News The CCIA is an independent, worldwide organisation whose members include some of the biggest names in the IT industry, including Google, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Sun, Oracle, and Red Hat. It sucks the life out of the market and destroys the matter...
[July 3, 2008, 17:01]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News Meanwhile, Nokia is facing competition from new entrants in the mobile market, such as Apple, with the iPhone, and Google, with the Android operating system. The first Google Android phone will go on sale next month on T-Mobile USA's network.
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
Yahoo embracing Web services
News After all, that's how rival Google won the search crown from Yahoo. Yahoo's rival Google introduced Web search APIs nearly three years ago. At a time when the competition to win consumers is intense, a key line of Yahoo's offence may be to sway the...
[March 1, 2005, 8:35]
Calendaring: The last great niche?
News For example, Microsoft plans a major calendar upgrade for its Outlook 12 release in 2006; Yahoo bought event-aggregation site Upcoming.org last month; and Google is expected to introduce an online calendar sometime soon.
[December 8, 2005, 7:55]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog To be perfectly clear, LinkedIn offers exactly the same functionality on its own site so its users can collect e-mail addresses from Google Mail, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and others (if you are a LinkedIn user you can see it here: https://www...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
US regulators question cloud-computing security
News Furthermore, said Kristin Lovejoy, IBM's director of governance and risk management strategy, companies that lease server space from companies such as Google to launch their own applications are ultimately responsible for security standards.
[March 18, 2009, 7:48]
Billionaire backs new search tool
News Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing a new Internet search start-up that aims to take over where Google leaves off. We don't need to recreate what [Google] is doing. Google users are now "facing an overwhelming...
[August 5, 2004, 9:00]
NetSuite beefs up for battle with Microsoft
News As well as supporting industry standard payment systems in PayPal and SECpay, NetSuite also announced support for Google's Froogle, eBay's Shopping.com and Shopzilla, a move allowing merchants "to go beyond traditional multi-channel selling to tap...
[November 15, 2005, 16:30]
Symbian vs Android: How they square up
News With the announcement on Tuesday of the formation of the Symbian Foundation, the forces of mobile open source appear to be congregating into two major camps: the Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, which is developing Google's...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
Microsoft Exchange boss: Online shift is opportunity
News In an interview on Monday, Jha said that although many see the rise of services as more of a benefit to companies such as Google, he sees it as an opportunity for his business. In addition to Google, IBM continues to push its Lotus Domino/Notes...
[August 18, 2009, 16:18]
Skype finds favour with enterprise
News However, it is facing increased competition both from bespoke VoIP services and free-software rivals, such as MSN Messenger and Google Talk. Skype eventually plans to sell advertising on the service, letting companies pay to display their details...
[July 27, 2007, 8:38]
IBM offers Lotus with extra widgets
News Symphony now integrates with Google Gadgets, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, Microsoft SharePoint and MSN, all via widgets. IBM on Friday announced a new version of its Lotus Symphony office suite, with extra features aimed at...
[September 11, 2009, 17:15]
Verizon scorns net neutrality fight
News But, he said, if AT&T would ink contracts letting google.com load in one second but other search engines load in three to four seconds, "that's a serious distortion of competition in that market". Lobbying for laws making the concept mandatory are...
[May 5, 2006, 11:40]
Europe search partners fight US threat
News The move comes as Overture Services and Google are laying claim to greater territory overseas. In contrast, Google deals with both commercial and noncommercial listings. The FAST-Espotting deal makes the companies more Google-like, allowing the...
[January 16, 2003, 11:16]
