Times of Oman news
The worlds biggest software company almost missed the hottest wave on the Internet Again
Nearly a decade after the Netscape browser threatened Microsoft Corps dominant Windows operating system Google Inc did the same with its search engine which processes hundreds of millions of queries a day and helped the company generate million in profit last year
But Microsoft has responded spending some of its 56billion cash hoard to build its own search engine which it plans to release by the end of the year and incorporate in the next version of Windows expected in...
Hotmail upstages Yahoo, Google with higher storage service news
The Associated Press
Microsoft Corps Hotmail will become the latest Webbased email service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts following similar moves by rivals
Beginning later this summer the company plans to increase the amount of storage for its free Hotmail account inboxes to 250 megabytes up from two megabytes Users will also be able to send larger attachments up to 10 megabytes
The Hotmail changes announced on Wednesday follow Google Incs plans for its Gmail service with megabytes of free storage The leading competitor in the Web email field Yahoo Inc...
Gates: Microsoft cutting virus combat time news
Australia Reuters Microsoft Corp is cutting the time it takes to blitz viruses but needs personal computer users to turn on their autoupdating features to help it combat potentially dangerous attacks Bill Gates said on Monday
Computer security experts said a virus designed to steal financial data and passwords from Web users rippled across the Internet on Friday exploiting a vulnerability in servers using Microsofts software
Known as the Scob outbreak the attack has been termed more dangerous than the recent Sasser and Blaster infections...
IBM develops corporate search technology news
Jun 27In the redhot market for search technology hopes to do for corporate data what search engines like Google have done for the Web
has developed new software that searches corporate networks desktop computers company Intranets and the Internet to extract information It can find information in databases spreadsheets Word documents newsgroups email messages audio files and images and Web sites for example
Big Blue calls the technology Masala a reference to the blend of Indian spices evoking its ability to blend different information...
Closing in news
profile advertising specialist subsidiary is set to announce Monday a new service that allows marketers to target their advertisements to a halfmile radius from their business locations
The new service called Local Match also will accept merchant or advertisers without a Web site to buy ads through Overture
Overtures move comes at a time when classifieds and yellow page advertising are quickly going online Its estimated that about half a billion dollars of yellow page advertising was spent online last year according to The Kelsey Group And more than 1 billion was spent in online classifieds according to Morgan...