Google Instant Search: To Bolt Out Bing Competition?

By on September 15, 2010 in MyBlog

During the weekend, Google made a new claim in the speed of searches done in its website – from being fast to instant.  The search engine giant released its new product, Google Instant Search, which manages to churn out results as the person is typing in the information he or she is searching for.  Although [...]

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Hurd May Jump from HP to Oracle

By on September 13, 2010 in MyBlog

Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., who only resigned from his position last month, is now in talks with Oracle Corp.  According to people who has inside information about the matter, Hurd is said to join Oracle as a top executive as well.  As of press time, his exact job designation is [...]

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Google Decides to Settle for Privacy Policy Glitch

By on September 13, 2010 in Google, MyBlog

Internet search engine giant Google has agreed to put a privacy lawsuit to rest by settling.  The company has agreed to forward a payment of $8.5 million over a social networking tool called Buzz that was added to the free email service of Gmail in February.  As early as Friday, court documents have been available [...]

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Craigslist Suspends Adult Services Section amidst Pressure

By on September 13, 2010 in MyBlog

One of the largest classified services on the Internet today, Craigslist, has finally succumbed to the pressure of shutting down its section offering adult services.  One of the leaders in combating prostitution said that this development is a good step, but they must continue fighting the battle against prostitution.  Richard Blumenthal, the Attorney General of [...]

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Interval Licensing Files Patent Infringement Suit vs. Tech Giants

By on September 7, 2010 in MyBlog

In an industry that is currently filled with reports of companies suing each other for infringement of copyright and intellectual property, it should not come as a surprise that another case is being filed this week.  The most recent company to jump in the bandwagon of companies slapping lawsuit to fellow tech companies is Interval [...]

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Google Eyeing Movie Offerings Soon

By on September 7, 2010 in Google, MyBlog

Google’s dominance in the world of popular software applications market is set to go even further as an insider has leaked information that the tech giant is pursuing plans to make its business of movie rentals in YouTube expanded. This is by making the service full-fledged and available outside the United States.  Reliable news sources [...]

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Oracle vs. Google Legal Battle Raises Concerns on Open Source Software Control

By on September 7, 2010 in Google, MyBlog

In the field of computer technology, free open source software traces its roots to researchers and explorers of high technology.  The main goal of these groups used to be sharing codes and ideas with each other.  They used to be compared to socialists, as they believed in imparting and benefiting from each other’s discoveries.  However, [...]

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Facebook Acquires Hot Potato for $10M in Cash

By on August 31, 2010 in MyBlog

For $10 million in cash, Facebook has acquired more talents to expand their company and cover all bases.  With the social network company’s acquisition of Hot Potato, Facebook sends a clear message that it wants to further develop its “Places” feature that is currently available on the site.  Hot Potato, a relatively very young site [...]

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Mozilla Popcorn Poised to Change the Way Web Videos Are Seen

By on August 31, 2010 in MyBlog

Videos viewed on the web may have always proven to be a bit of a disappointment for some people, as they are usually smaller compared to those played on a TV screen.  Moreover, they are bound to be only experienced passively in a browser, unlike with watching video clips on TV or movie house screen.  [...]

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Nature of Microsoft 15 Speculated

By on August 31, 2010 in MyBlog

Reports of the Microsoft 15′s appearance have been leaked and posted on various Internet news sites.   But apart from screen caps and other information that has been divulged, news about the pre-alpha build has it that a new application will be integrated into the next generation of the Microsoft Office suite.  Could it be the [...]

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