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Just a year and a half after it entered beta test, Microsoft's color barcode system for mobile devices – dubbed simply "Tag" – hit "general availability" last week. Dubbed by Microsoft – "barcodes-on-steroids," the technology lets users hover their mobile phones over a code, whether on a product package, in a magazine or on a [...]

The European Union reported on Tuesday that some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft Corp. software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May. This comes under a deal which the EU struck with the firm in order to settle the latest antitrust action. Microsoft, this month, is starting to send updates to [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo have received all-systems-go to launch their search agreement from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and they will soon begin implementing their scheme. The process will involve porting Yahoo's algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft and making Yahoo the sole relationship sales force for both companies' premium [...]

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has revealed details of some of the new features that will be in its upcoming Office for Mac 2011 suite at the Macworld 2010 expo in San Francisco. Among the highlights are new co-authoring and Web Apps tools, as well as a user interface which is designed to be compatible with the [...]

Well as you might have heard,Microsoft and Yahoo have finally reached an agreement to merge their search services in hopes of finally being able to compete with Google. Under the new 10-year, $275 million agreement, Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search, while Yahoo Search Marketing will be powered by Microsoft AdCenter. So what [...]

"Google Google Google, you're just too big" say its rival bookworms in the electronic book industry. The former former former's bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack. Google is shooting at a legal settlement that would unlock to the search and ad genius, a vast electronic library. The opposition [...]

Here's the story as I understood it: Google launched google.cn in 2006, agreeing to some censorship of the search results, in accordance with requests by the Chinese government. Google's choice to concede to China's demands on censorship in 2006 led to accusations that it had betrayed its company motto: "don't be evil". Google argued it [...]

On Wednesday, the European Union settled its browser bundling investigation of Microsoft, and accepted their promise to provide current Windows users with another and more obvious chance to pick an alternative to Internet Explorer. For the next five years, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users in 30 different European countries will be shown [...]

Microsoft's third and perhaps best Zune effort went on sale this week, taking on the new generation of camera and app-equipped Apple iPods with a relatively pure music and video player. This time the emphasis isn't on the Zune's funky design or wireless sharing feature. Instead the spotlight is on Zune's sleek new hardware, including [...]

When any one power gets too strong, as the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Not that Google is corrupt or anything, and indeed they are doing great things on the net and for humanity in general. But at some point, they will get lazy, sitting at the top all alone, and someone will race [...]

Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer are probably pretty happy today. They are the two CEOs for Yahoo and Microsoft, respectively. Why are they probably happy? MicroHoo is getting underway. Google just agreed to hire 400 Yahoo employees as part of the two companies' plans to share search advertising revenue. The deal goes like this: Yahoo [...]

Word has it that Microsoft and Yahoo will be striking a search and advertising deal within the next 24 hours. The merger will pit the two big companies against each other, as the new MicroHoo will put up a united front against the Google machine. According to the deal, Microsoft search technology will be used [...]