Software giant takes aim at BlackBerry’s large customer base Microsoft recently announced partnerships with several wireless carriers to deliver push e-mail capability for mobile devices, a move which is designed to compete with Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform. Microsoft’s announcement could not be timed better, coming in the midst of a lawsuit that threatens to […]

Companies to Bring Search-Centric Information Solutions to Major Enterprise Customers A partnership announced between Google and professional services provider BearingPoint, formerly KPMG, aims to make searching across corporate and internal desktops and databases as easy as using Google’s Web search page. BearingPoint and Google are working together to bring powerful but simple Google search solutions […]

Online search giant Google Inc., has quietly launched a new phase of its offline media expansion strategy: a pilot test to gauge whether Google’s online advertisers will bid for advertising space in major consumer magazines. Google is giving advertisers a chance to bid online for space in 28 magazines, part of an effort to extend […]

RealNetworks, Inc., has announced that it has acquired Zylom Media Group BV, a premier distributor, developer and publisher of high-quality PC-based casual games throughout Europe, adding to a stable of "casual" computer games that is contributing a steadily growing share of the company’s revenues. The transaction valued at up to $21 million or euro 17.2 […]

A group of nonprofit and public interest groups is beginning a campaign soon to protest plans by America Online and Yahoo, which each offer e-mail services, to charge high-volume senders of e-mail fees to guarantee preferred delivery of their messages. The campaign is being organized by MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group that uses its list […]

Google’s push last week into credit card transaction processing for its free classifieds service Base is a worry for eBay/PayPal, which is not going to sit idly by. In its characteristically understated style, Google has begun offering a new payment option for a handful of people who had listed items for sale on the Google […]

Google is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the web-mail service’s interface. Google is set to launch Gmail Chat, which will let users send instant messages with one click from their e-mail account, see when contacts are online and save the […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to spend about $1 billion over the next three years on an expansion that will add enough offices at its headquarters to house about 12,000 workers. The Redmond-based software behemoth plans to add another 4,000 to 5,000 workers worldwide, most of them in the Seattle area, during the current fiscal year ending […]

Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin announced the launch of a pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online. A marching band begins to play. The United Newsreel logo, an eagle in a martial pose, flickers onto the black-and-white screen. […]

NTL, the largest broadband provider in the United Kingdom, will be testing the file-swapping service that will let users purchase movies and music video more cheaply than traditional downloads. The trial, which will also include another technology company from Cambridge, England-based CacheLogic Ltd., comes as BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen works to establish the software as […]