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November 19, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:15 PM/EST

Google Video Explains What Chrome OS Is

Google Nov. 19 made developers happy by releasing Chrome Operating System to open source. Chrome OS is a Web operating system intended as an alternative to Microsoft Windows, allowing users to run Web apps much more quickly.

November 18, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:29 PM/EST

Google Chrome OS Preview Comes as Microsoft Preps Azure

Google isn't going to let Windows Azure have all the high-tech news glory this week. No, the search engine giant has other plans: The rumored Chrome Operating System preview is coming. Google's Chrome OS announcement is well timed, but it has a lot to live up to, in my opinion. Azure appears to be so far along, raising the question, What will Google have to wow us with?

November 2, 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009 4:39 PM/EST

Weather.com Plays Weatherman on Bing Maps Using Flash

Microsoft is getting help from its partners to boost the value proposition of Bing Maps. Specifically, Weather.com, which uses Bing Maps over Google Maps, has created an interesting way to deliver its weather-oriented maps to users. Called Futures, the feature aims to play digital weatherman by overlaying a forecast prediction on a Bing Map embedded in the Website.

October 29, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:00 AM/EST

Don't Tell Collecta's Gerry Campbell Bing is Indexing Twitter in Real-Time

Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell Campbell said Microsoft is searching Twitter and indexing tweets, but not surfacing them with the same stream speed as Collecta, which he said was designed to watch the Web and persistently push Twitter and other socially-driven content to users as it arrives online.

October 21, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:39 PM/EST

Google to Join Microsoft Bing in Indexing Twitter Tweets

UPDATE: Despite kicking the collective butts of everyone in search, Google couldn't idly sit by and let Bing own the Web 2.0 news crush. So, in a blatant "Me, too" announcement, Google said it has reached an agreement with Twitter to include tweets in its search results. The kicker? It will be months before we see tweets populate Google results in real time.

October 20, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:01 AM/EST

Advertisers Ask DOJ to Bless Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal to Challenge Google

The Association of National Advertisers sent the Department of Justice an open letter pledging its support for the bid and asking the DOJ to swiftly bless it because it's good for the online advertising market. I expect the AAAA's letter will merit serious consideration by the DOJ. This is a wise group that harbors no illusions about the power Google has wrestled in their market.

October 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 12:00 PM/EST

Microsoft Pits Groove vs. Google Apps for SharePoint 2010

With SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft is touting a new offline client called SharePoint Workspace, allowing users to take SharePoint sites offline, edit the content and have the documents synchronize when the sites go back online. This is the techn

October 7, 2009

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:01 AM/EST

Microsoft Bing Joins Google in Voice Search

One of the core features of the Sprint SPH-i350 Intrepid lets users search the Web with Bing by speaking their queries, and compose a text message or dial a contact by talking instead of typing. The Tellme feature offers one clear differentiation that Google Search By Voice doesn't: the ability to text by voice.

September 14, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009 2:24 PM/EST

Microsoft Bing Visual Search Option Helps Us Become Lazier Searchers

Bing Visual Search lets users type in a query as usual, but instead of returning the customary blue links as results, Bing returns images associated with books, movies, celebrities, sports teams and so on. Bing gets a big kudos for this in my book. Now, what will Google do, particularly now that Bing's August search queries are up 22 percent from July, according to Nielsen?

September 8, 2009

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:24 PM/EST

Why Microsoft Thinks Windows Live Hotmail Will Trounce Google's Gmail

A Windows Live product manager says Windows Live Hotmail is the Web mail application of choice, calling Google's Gmail unfocused. I'd say Gmail is focused on providing rich Web services and Google is certainly racking up users by the bushel.


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