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The Early Stats on IE9 March 20, 2010 
In the first series of comprehensive performance tests comparing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 technical preview, released last week, to stable Web browsers in current use today, Betanews confirmed superb speed gains by the IE9 chassis in specific categories. Not everything in the new IE9 was faster than IE8.
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Will Google Take Over Your Tube? March 19, 2010 
A few weeks ago we heard some chitchat about a few Google engineers taking home a new kind of set-top box to tinker and play around with. Not a big surprise -- Google guys tinker with everything. It's like DARPA combined with Wonka Chocolate combined with Acme from the Looney Toons. But now we're hearing a little more about it from a New York Times article.
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Microsoft Gives Devs a Glimpse of HTML 5-Friendly IE9 March 17, 2010 
The newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will feature full hardware acceleration and a new Javascript engine that engages multiple processor cores for faster rendering, the company has announced. The new version aso reverses the software giant's reluctance to adapt to HTML 5.
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Google Cuts Ribbon on Apps Marketplace March 10, 2010 
You've got apps for your phone. You'll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps. Google has launched its new Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps line of cloud-based productivity services. Initial participants include about 50 companies selling applications that hook into various Google services.
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Google Maps Out Happy Trails for Bicycle Riders March 10, 2010 
In a move sure to make the grade with cyclists across the United States, Google on Wednesday added bicycle routes to its Google Maps service. Biking directions and extensive bike trail data are now available for the United States through Google Maps, giving cyclists nationwide a way to customize their trips, figure out the most efficient routes, make use of bike lanes and avoid big hills.
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Opera's All-Out Bid to Build the Best Browser March 07, 2010 
Usually software companies have the luxury of picking their own deadlines, and typically -- especially in the case of open source or free programs -- those deadlines are allowed to slip or even lapse. But the European Commission gave Opera a solid opportunity to get back in the game, to be discussed once again in the same company as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.
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EU Grouses at Google Over Privacy on Its Streets February 26, 2010 
The European Union has requested that Google make some changes to its Street View service. It wants Google to delete the images that it captures after six months, according to a letter sent to Google from the head of the EU Article 29 Data Protection Group, which is comprised of data protection officials from EU countries.
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Tools for Putting Web Apps to the Cross-Browser Test February 26, 2010 
Web-based applications and cloud computing have presented new challenges for software developers. Most software makers are by no means tone-deaf to user concerns about security and usability issues, but even those software writers who are receptive to these worries must contend with hard-to-plug holes that can open up in cross-platform programs such as Web browsers.
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Opera Hits Some Unexpected High Notes With New Beta February 20, 2010
Recently we saw yet another daily build of what Opera Software was calling its "pre-alpha" of the Opera 10.5 Web browser, a product that the company certainly wanted folks to test, even though they were warned it wasn't even ready for daily use. With various software publishers' development schedules being organized so differently from one another, it's difficult enough distinguishing "previews" from "alpha previews."
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Can Microhoo Get Searchers to Kick Their Google Habit? February 19, 2010 
If competition for Google is still "just a click away" -- as its executives kept saying last summer to anybody who would listen -- then the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission made that click easier with their decisions this week to bless the Microsoft-Yahoo search technology merger. Here's the new search query for this latest development: Will consumers get the hint?
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Microsoft Trots Out Office for Mac 2011 February 12, 2010 
Microsoft has revealed details of some of the new features in its upcoming Office for Mac 2011 suite at the Macworld 2010 expo in San Francisco. Among the highlights are new coauthoring and Web Apps tools, as well as a user interface designed to be compatible with the Windows version of Office. More expansive collaboration tools are part of the latest upgrade.
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What Dreams May Come With Google's Super-Speedy Network? February 11, 2010 
What will developers and users do with Google's planned ultra high-speed broadband network? Google's answer can be summed up in four words: We don't know yet. "If the Internet has taught us anything, it's that the most important innovations are often those we least expect," Google spokesperson Dan Martin told TechNewsWorld.
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Google Buzz Bridges Social Media and Gmail February 09, 2010 
Google has certainly generated more than its share of buzz regarding its plans to get deeper into social media. On Tuesday, the search giant revealed those plans: Google Buzz, which takes a big step into Facebook and Twitter territory while keeping one foot firmly planted on its Gmail foundation.
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Google May Cut Ribbon on Enterprise App Store February 02, 2010
A brief stroll through the Google Solutions Marketplace shows you that the search giant is already working and playing well with others when it comes to the business of specialized business software. Need something to give your Google Calendar a little sharing and productivity boost? What about enhancements to Google Spreadsheets?
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Google Stamps Social Search With Beta Status January 28, 2010 
Google promoted its Social Search experiment to beta status on Wednesday. Social Search adds information and images from users' public pages to the results of online searches conducted by members of their social network. Users need a Google profile to get results from Social Search.
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MashLogic: Links Done Your Way January 27, 2010 
In the world of venture capital fund-raising, the would-be entrepreneur is usually the party who goes looking for acceptance. However, that's not the way MashLogic got funded. Instead, several partners at Bessemer Venture Partners sought out Ranjit Padmanabhan with seed money and the cofounder title to start up MashLogic in late 2007.
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