Yahoo's chairman and chief executive officer Terry Semel strongly defended the company's decision to turn over evidence to Chinese authorities that helped the government convict a local journalist and send him to jail for 10 years.
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. will make their respective consumer instant-message (IM) networks partly interoperable in the second quarter of next year, the companies announced Wednesday.
When version 1.0 of Firefox was released in November 2004, it caused a sensation as a seemingly more secure and more feature-rich option to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer (IE), which for years had held a market share north of 90% and which Microsoft had barely bothered to improve.
In a setback for Microsoft, a defector and high-ranking Google executive will be able to help Google set up a research and development facility in China in the coming months while a case over his hiring comes to trial in January 2006, a judge decided overnight.
About 16 months after officially encouraging employees to take up Web logging, Sun Microsystems now estimates that between 1,500 and 2,000 staffers are engaged in this increasingly popular practice of publishing online journals, according to the man behind Sun's blogging effort.
Google has boosted its executive team by hiring Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist, the California company announced.
The first beta test version of the next major upgrade to the Firefox open-source browser will be available this week, the Mozilla Foundation announced on Tuesday.
Google is again expanding beyond its core search engine and pushing further into web portal territory with the launch yesterday of an instant messaging service with voice communications capabilities.
Google has improved its Google Desktop PC and Web search application by adding to it a panel that provides information from a variety of sources.
Good news for Web log publishers with aspirations of making money off their sites -- compared to the average Internet user, visitors to Web logs, or blogs, tend to be younger and to belong to a wealthier household, a study has found.
Microsoft has released new features for its MSN Spaces blogging service to make it more attractive to advanced users, a key MSN Spaces official announced in his Web log late Tuesday.
Google enhanced its Google News article search service overnight by adding content syndication.
Media megacompany gets a bit bigger
Google has developed a toolbar for The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser that contains almost all the features found in Google's toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, according to a company official.
Another endless beta begins