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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle… What have they got in common? It's not all grim news. In other news this week, you may think your server room is the business.... [06 Nov 2009]
Twitter puts real-time tweets in Google search
News For more on Google's intergration of Twitter see Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too on CNET News.com Google has announced it will integrate real-time Twitter... [22 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News Other big names to have signed up to use Google Apps include Telegraph Media Group, the Guardian News and Media group and construction company Taylor Woodrow. Business support services company Rentokil... [12 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Starter edition coming with Office 2010
News Unlike the Works suite, it will be compatible with Office, and is one of Microsoft's attempts to compete with increasing rivalry from open source offerings such as Google Apps. See Microsoft introduces 'Starter' version... [09 Oct 2009]
Internet Explorer slips again as Firefox breathes down its neck
News All of the Microsoft browser's main competitors - Firefox, Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and Opera - increased their share over the same period, according to web tracker Net Applications. For more, see IE overall usage... [06 Oct 2009]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Windows 7, Apple and those tablet rumours
News Ahead of a visit to the UK, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down with silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com to share his thoughts on Windows 7, competition with Google - and the rumoured Microsoft... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. Photo credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET News Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer... [02 Oct 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Williams is not just a one-trick pony either: he was co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that created the blog publishing service Blogger - bought by Google in 2003. One noted how Twitter is setting the... [29 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News And there are new Google Android phones from HTC and Motorola coming to market soon. Many are now wondering if RIM's disappointing sales are an indicator of a wider smartphone slowdown or if the news is... [25 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News It invites comparisons to Palm's WebOS and Synergy software, with users selecting different widgets from a home page to rotate in and out of Facebook, Google Maps, email, or voicemail. It struck up a partnership with... [15 Sep 2009]
Google: Fast Flip to let publishers in on the ad action?
News It's a Google Labs project that expands the presence of publishers on Google News, organising and displaying authorised screen grabs of news stories - not snippets -... [15 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment Just ask Google. Last week's news that Apple had approved the Spotify app for the iPhone left me surprised, delighted and intrigued in equal measure. Though Apple has rejected many iPhone apps that may... [03 Sep 2009]
Google Chrome getting on better with Apple's Snow Leopard
News Tab-to-search also works with Amazon, Google, Google News, and Yahoo! Google released an update for Chrome to fix compatibility problems with Snow Leopard on Monday,... [01 Sep 2009]
iPhone, Google battle - another element in the struggle for web power
News At one level, the fracas about Google's stymied attempt to bring Google Voice to the iPhone is a squabble about who gets to control the phone's user interface. Ultimately, if a lot of people want... [27 Aug 2009]
Facebook adds open source guru to its books
News But speaking to a few of his soon-to-be Facebook colleagues, and they sound excited: the five-year-old company has never had an already-prominent open-source advocate on staff, like Google's Chris DiBona. [26 Aug 2009]
