PC World - Microsoft has released an API that allows Web sites to send location information to GPS navigation devices as part of an... -- read full article
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo Inc. in a pique over the way the Internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft Corp.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A Forrester report telling large businesses to hold off on deploying Windows Vista contradicts earlier reports on the operating system, Microsoft says. -- read full article
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Oracle stays quiet while Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata say data scalability alone won't satisfy customers. -- read full article
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:44:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Microsoft CEO dismissed Yahoo as a major player in the Internet business, despite previously offering more than $40 billion for the company. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:17:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, and Google chief Eric Schmidt not to help censor or repress Internet users. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:19:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Facebook users' Web queries will produce search results and paid search ads generated by Microsoft's search engine. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:25:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft executives responded to many analyst questions about how it can solve negative perception problems in the market. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:50:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft said it's putting a wide range of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program under the Open Specification Promise. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:21:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Microsoft engineers, in collaboration with researchers at several Asian institutions, have proposed a new method for improving upon the Web page rankings produced by today's search engine requests. Called BrowseRank, the new approach adds a human factor to the process by weighing how people actually use the Internet, the collaborators reported in a paper recently presented before the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by donating cash to the Apache Software Foundation. -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:00:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft won't replace Johnson but will split Platforms and Services into two groups that will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:56:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Deal validates tectonic shift in data warehousing, puts pressure on Oracle and independent appliance vendors. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:29:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid during the spring.
