Palm Computing will launch a Windows-based version of its Treo phone, marking the first time Palm will sell a device based on its former rival’s software. Microsoft will achieve one of its longest-held ambitions tomorrow when its rival Palm Computing plans to announce that it will use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software in a new version […]

Google Video will be launching a video player that integrates itself into either the Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers, allowing users to view Google’s streaming video in response to their video search queries. The service’s videos now play within a Web browser without the need for additional software, says Peter Shane, senior business product manager […]

Google has released from beta its Firefox search toolbar, which includes features such as spell check and a word translator. Google also offers a search toolbar for Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer, which does not have the auto-suggest capability and is less customizable than the Firefox application. The Mountain View, Calif., search engine released the Firefox […]

Microsoft is 30 years old! The company took over a baseball stadium in Seattle and bussed in 16,000 Microsofties for an orgasmic celebration of Chairman Bill’s vision of world domination. It must have seemed a long way from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Gates and friend Paul Allen registered a start-up called Micro-Soft ‘the hyphen dissolved […]

America Online announced plans to add search options to its podcast offering by this fall. AOL has become the latest Internet player to tap into the podcast craze, launching a podcast search service. The firm has secured a deal with search engine technology firm Podscope to add a podcast search capability to the AOL search […]

Yahoo has just released a mobile version of Yahoo Shopping. The mobile version of Yahoo Shopping will work on mobile phones/devices with a WAP 2.0 enabled browser that has access to one of the following networks: Cingular–Orange, Cingular–Blue, Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, and T–Mobile. Yahoo Shopping has released what it feels is its own internal application […]

In its all-out battle to defeat Google, Microsoft may be reaching out to a former nemesis. The Redmond Company is reportedly close to buying a stake in America Online or at least expanding a partnership they reached in 2003. AOL is cash-strapped and losing customers, while Microsoft is cash-rich and investing heavily to expand its […]

About 100 coders descended down on Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California for the third edition of Google Code Jam, an international coding competition. Polish university student Marek Cygan has won the third edition of Google Code Jam. The winner got a trophy made out of lego and $10,000. Google and Lego go way back. […]

Microsoft shortly plans to unveil its own system for selling Web advertising as it struggles to compete with Google and Yahoo in the expanding Web search business. The system, to be used by MSN, is meant to improve on those of Microsoft’s rivals by allowing marketers to aim ads on Web search pages to users […]

As Discovery orbited the Earth early last month, millions of people visited Yahoo, which runs the most popular news site on the Internet, to see the nail-biting conclusion to the troubled shuttle mission. Could NASA find a way to bring the astronauts home safely? Despite the drama and the huge number of people flocking to […]