Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1
Hi, Mike Nash here from the Windows Product Management group at Microsoft. Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first...
Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo
Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google. — In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving f...
Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody
It's been a tumultuous few days for Yahoo—you know, with that takeover bid from Microsoft—but the company continues to shake things up internally, too. — On Monday, the company announced that it wil...
Overhaul of net addresses begins
The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net's core addressing system have been taken. — On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a n...
Chips pass two billion milestone
The first chip to pack more than two billion transistors has been launched by silicon giant Intel. — The quad-core chip, known as Tukwila, is designed for high-end servers rather than personal compu...
Microsoft-Yahoo: Google ethics and the “monopoly pissing match”
As excitement heats up around Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo, Google feels threatened and has jumped into the fray, as reported by Dan Farber, ZDNet's editor in chief. Rightfully concerned...
Ships did not cut internet cable
No ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, Egypt's Ministry of Communications has said, contrary to earlier speculation about the ca...
Google Android - a sneak preview
What's in it for developers? — Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to writ...
Microsoft to open Boston-area research lab
Microsoft on Monday said it plans in July to open its sixth research lab, in Cambridge, Mass. — The new lab will focus initially on “core computer science, especially more algorithmically oriented a...
CFO: Microsoft likely to go into debt for Yahoo deal
Microsoft has historically been renowned for its huge cash holdings, and its ability to avoid going into debt, but the company will probably need to borrow for the first time to help cover the cash po...
Breaking: In The Middle of The Storm, Yahoo! Acquires Israeli FoxyTunes
A couple of weeks ago we reported several rumors of acquisition of Israel-based FoxyTunes a Firefox plugin that allows users to control their favorite media players from the browser.
The Industry Standard 2.0: Their Analysis, Your Predictions
The Industry Standard—the once high-flying, and then hardest-falling, magazine of the dotcom era—is relaunching today in a public beta, nearly seven years after the original media outlet went bankrupt...