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Sure, with Bing and Chrome OS, Microsoft and Google are aping each other's flagship products. But, says Jim Rapoza, the way the announcements were made shows the companies turning into each other
A Foxconn worker who had been overseeing 16 prototypes of Apple's fourth-generation iPhone is reported to have killed himself after Foxconn security interrogated him over a missing mobile prototype
Apple COO Tim Cook used Apple's earnings call to talk down mini-notebooks - known popularly as "netbooks" - that have buoyed earnings for the rest of the PC market
Users need to save money and resources by printing less, but printer vendors want to sell more printers. There's no conflict, says Graham Long of Samsung: it's up to vendors to face the inevitable and lead the way
Microsoft's earnings are forecast to meet or exceed analyst predictions, but to be lower than the numbers it posted a year ago
Apple reports quarterly profits and revenue exceeding Wall Street analyst predictions, and says both iPhones and Macs experienced year-over-year growth in sales despite the economy
The Korean manufacturer Samsung commits to cut emissions - and may be hoping to benefit from government tax breaks for sustainable business
Microsoft releases 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular GPLv2 license
Microsoft and Yahoo's potential deal over search and advertising got public approval from investor Carl Icahn, who owns around 5 percent of Yahoo
Has Google gone as far as it can go with its free software model? The release of its Chrome OS has provoked a lot of discussion summarised here by Clint Boulton
IE8 browser won't try to take over as default when you install it, promises Microsoft
Do The Green Thing site gets DECC money. Sweating assets may be good for the environment, but does not do much to stimulate economic growth
Microsoft and Yahoo have returned to the bargaining table for a possible search and online advertising partnership, according to AllThingsDigital
Despite the threat of Google Chrome OS as another competitive front versus Apple, Google CEO Eric Schmidt refuses to step down from Apple's board of directors.
Microsoft Bing increased its U.S. search engine market share by 0.4 percent during its first month of release
Two major councils in England are using content and document management technology to play a central transformational role in process efficiency
While netbooks are booming, Apple is losing share because it refuses to make a cheap notebook, analysts say
Microsoft's Office 2010 shows plenty of updates to core Office abilities - but also takes Office out to the web, where it performs within Explorer Firefox and Safari browsers
NetSuite drives another nail into the coffin of the traditional cost of ownership of on-premise business software
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner claims during the Worldwide Partner Conference that Apple asked him to pull Microsoft's ads emphasising the inexpensiveness of PCs over Macintoshes
There's plenty of competition for VMware in making virtualised data centres, despite its strong lead. Is now the time to switch to Hyper-V or XenServer, asks Cameron Sturdevant?
Turning up the heat on its competition with rival Apple, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner says the software giant will open Microsoft retail stores “next to” Apple stores this year
Instead of keeping BlackBerrys, iPhones and other personal mobile devices out of the enterprise, a new report from Forrester suggests creating a personal responsibility policy
Reduced interest in desktops is partly to blame, with netbook and notebook numbers continuing to rise
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that even the worst economy in decades wouldn't prevent IT administrators and the enterprise from executing a tech refresh
Worldwide shipments of netbook PCs are expected to reach nearly 33 million units in 2009, according to a new report
At the annual Dell analyst day, Dell executives say the company is looking to change its product mix, moving more upstream into the data centre with a solutions-based approach and away from its heavy reliance on PC sales
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has dismissed Google's "netbook"-centric operating system as unable to fully accomplish users' needs
Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 seems to be causing problems with Wi-Fi connectivity, according to reports
A free online version of Office is a good weapon against Google Docs and other free office tools - but won't it dent the sales of the full Office 2010 package?