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Alibaba Site with Own Search Engine May Outshine Yahoo China
The story, 'Alibaba site with own search engine may outshine Yahoo China,' posted Friday, omitted a key element of the 2005 deal between Alibaba and Yahoo. As part of the deal Alibaba received $1 billion in cash. The first sentence of the second

Five Reasons Google Chrome OS Will Succeed
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Five Reasons the Google Chrome OS Will Flop
Yesterday Google hosted a press event at its Mountain View campus to reveal a first glimpse at the Chrome OS. The excitement around the operating system has led to rampant rumors and speculation, but I question whether the Chrome OS is really worth any

Google Rides Chrome OS Onto Microsoft Turf
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AOL to cut third of workforce before Christmas
ersion AOL is to cut a third of its workforce before Christmas as it seeks to reduce annual costs by $300m. The move forms part of a restructuring exercise following AOL's split from Time Warner, scheduled for 9 December. AOL said it anticipated that up

First pictures of Google Chrome OS
Google said the Chrome OS operating system is able to take advantage of graphics processors, multi-core architectures and multimedia peripherals that web applications have previously been unable to access. This means that users no longer need to run

Google sheds light on netbook plans for Chrome OS
Google has taken the wraps off its Chrome OS for the first time. At an event held at its Mountain View HQ on Thursday, Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai gave the assembled press a tour of Chrome, which showed the basic look and

eBay finalises $2.75bn sale of Skype
Niklas Zennström , Janus Friis , Marc Andreessen , Auction site eBay has sold off the Skype telephony service to a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen's new Andreessen Horowitz group, Silver Lake, and the Skype co-founders' company Joltid.

Twitter's geotagging API goes live
Twitter's geolcation API in action. (Credit: Twitter/Birdfeed) Twitter has now launched the geotagging API, or application programming interface, that it . Users now have the option to opt-in to geolocation by clicking a box in their settings menu,

eBay sells $2bn stake in Skype
ersion eBay has completed its sale of a majority interest in Skype for almost $2bn to an investor group that includes the founders of the internet phone service. The deal was concluded when eBay was able to settle a legal skirmish with Skype co-founders

New Pogoplug gets hard drives online with more color, extra USB ports
The new Pogoplug: more USB ports for extra hard drives, very pink. (Credit: Cloud Engines) Just recently we reviewed Cloud Engines' Pogoplug, a very affordable $99 solution that effortlessly turns any USB hard drive or memory stick into an

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Google Goes for Speed, Security in Chrome OS
Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones. However, Google also made it clear that Chrome will not be able to

Google's Chrome OS: What's in it for Microsoft?
Watching made me realize: There is a lot in Google's OS that can benefit Microsoft--like giving it a completely new platform and one it needs. If Google is really true to its open source promises, Microsoft should join the fun. (Take our visual tour of

The 5 Best, and 5 Worst, Features of Google Chrome OS
Today, Google released the source code for Chrome OS and promised that devices will be shipping in about a year, in time for the 2010 holiday season. Chrome OS will run only on devices specifically manufactured for it and Google is dictating to

Microsoft, Other Rivals Slam Google Chrome OS
Microsoft Corp. is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google Inc.'s today, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space. Google released Chrome OS as open source today. It did not, however,

Google holds the future of Linux
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Amazon punters go mad for 'Laptop Steering Wheel Desk'
Amazon customers have gone absolutely mad for the AutoExec WM-01 Wheelmate (http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header), which 'attaches to your steering wheel for easy access to a writing and drink

Google gives Chrome OS demo, promises 2010 launch
Google has unveiled its Chrome OS. In a webcast launch at the company's California headquarters on Thursday, Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, said the Linux-based operating system was fully open, ran applications only in its browser

CEO Armstrong will forgo 09 bonus as AOL slashes a third of staff
AOL plans to let 2,500 employees go in attempt to reduce costs $300 million annually We said last week that the cuts at the new AOL could go far deeper than the anticipated 1,000. At the time, execs declined comment but today the company admitted that it

Twitter plans corporate accounts and tools
ersion Twitter has confirmed plans to introduce a set of tools for business users by the end of the year that will help the site begin togenerate income. The microblogging site has a valuation of about $1bn after raising an additional $100m in new

Google gets preliminary approval for revised book deal
Google and a group of US authors and publishers have won preliminary approval for arevised settlementover plans to make millions of books available online. In a ruling filed in New York, US District Judge Denny Chin granted the preliminary approval and

Stephen Fry attacks 'malevolent' comments following Twitter spat
'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen Fry Stephen Fry, technophile and a 'twillionaire' having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained .

Twitter premium accounts for business users due by end of the year
So how's Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday… 'Supposing I was to say to someone: 'you can have my

MS discovers flaw in Google plug-in for IE
Microsoft has helped discover a flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users. The plug-in allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer using the Google Chrome rendering engine. Redmond warned that the plug-in

MS Finds Security Flaw In Google Chrome Frame
Christmas Shopping writes with this excerpt from Kaspersky Labs' threatpost: 'Back in September, when Google launched the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, Microsoft immediately warned that the move would increase the attack surface

You can't blame Google for the network
Story: Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch They are pushing the network, are as Apple. The train operators just see the commuters as a cash cow and internet on the move will require infrastructure by them and a healthy return for the

Google touts real-time RSS transplant
Web 2.0 NY Google is trumpeting a new messaging protocol it insists on calling PubSubHubbub. Brett Slatkin - a software engineer on Google?s App Engine team - demonstrated the protocol this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. It aims to turn RSS and

Firefox millions - now only 9 per cent Google free
Mozilla revenues climbed to $79m last year - and 91 per cent of that came from Google. According to the Mozilla Foundation's latest financial statements (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-2008-audited-financial-statement.pdf), 2008 revenue