Google and EU Vs Microsoft and IE Monopoly

July 24th, 2009 EU: Microsoft is trying to settle web browser caseBRUSSELS — European Union regulators say Microsoft Corp. is making concessions on its web browser to avoid new antitrust fines.

June 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

July 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - Internet giant Google announced Wednesday the arrival of its own computer operating system, initially designed for use with Netbook computers. Google Chrome OS, based on the company's nine-month old browser software, is to be available to consumers from the second half of 2010, a statement on Google's blog said.

June 12th, 2009 EU: browser-free Windows gives no real choiceBRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all.

March 25th, 2009 Google search has been tweaked and as you have already guessed it, its gone better. According to a recent post from the official google blog, Google search is now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know.

September 17th, 2007 Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (approx: $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.

April 3rd, 2009 Washingtonpost today has just brought in a heck of a rumor that Google may be in the last stage of acquiring Twitter. No one knows the price or exact transactional details yet, nor there is any official source to that, but its said that the deal may be well over $250 Million.

July 30th, 2009 A look at how the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will workAlthough Yahoo and Microsoft could soon be working together on Internet search, their collaboration would mostly occur behind the scenes. Consumers would still see Yahoo's logo striped across Yahoo.com.

November 18th, 2008 The war of the technology giants (Microsoft and Google) have now reached office too. No, I am not talking about Mountain view or Redmond literally.

July 28th, 2005 I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun.

May 22nd, 2008 One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display.

September 3rd, 2009 Executive who led Google's China expansion leavingBEIJING — The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S.

June 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft stepped up its efforts to cut into the search dominance of Google, launching a public preview version of its widely praised Bing search site Monday. The site offers several features that are not automatically available on Google such as instant excerpts that allow users to see the contents of a page without actually clicking on it and a sidebar detailing related searches.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.