By Clint Boulton When Google Principal Engineer Matt Cutts appearedat a search event sponsored by Microsoft’s Bing team Feb. 1, he politely suggested to Harry Shum, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of core search development, that Bing had copied some Google search results. The issue went back and forth for a week with little resolution, though Microsoft pointed out [...]
By: Darryl K. Taft Couchbase has released Couchbase Server, a new database system powered by the Apache CouchDB NoSQL database technology. Officials at Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, said the new Couchbase Server is well-suited for developers because it leverages the standard http protocol, making it easy to integrate [...]
By: Clint Boulton Google said it is working with Microsoft to patch a hole in the Windows operating system hackers are trying to exploit to target activists, among other users. The search engine, which called the attacks “highly targeted and apparently politically motivated,” said the perpetrator(s) abuses a known vulnerability Microsoft treated with a temporary patch in late [...]
By: Michelle Maisto All four major carriers are enabling customers to send free texts to aid organizations. AT&T and Verizon are additionally offering free calling and texting to Japan Additionally, AT&T wireline customers can receive 60 minutes of direct-dial calling time to Japan during the same time frame. While wireless customers are likely to see no [...]
By: Michelle Maisto As the Apple iPad 2 launches, a new survey reveals that the tablet that reinvigorated the market is still very much its leader (despite a small dip in market share), while continuing to grow consumer interest in the form factor and stealing share from other segments, particularly e-readers and laptops. According to a March [...]
By: Nicholas Kolakowski First Microsoft filed a legal claim to deny Apple the trademark to the term “app store.” Then Apple filed back, arguing its arch-rival’s logic and evidence failed to “create a new genericness standard.” Now Microsoft’s felt compelled to return fire—but not with a complex legal argument. Instead, the tech giant wants Apple’s brief [...]
By: Clint Boulton Google sewed up 23 flaws in its Chrome Web browser March 8, one day before the Pwn2Own hacking contest opens at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. The search engine paid between $500 to $2,000 to developers who detected the flaws, ranging from low to high severity ratings. Google rewarded some lower-severity issues for [...]
By: Clint Boulton YouTube March 7 acquired video production company Next New Networks and launched YouTube Next, a unit within the Google company geared to accelerate video creation and monetization. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. The Next New Networks buy, which had been rumored since December, will provide YouTube with the expertise needed to [...]
By: Clint Boulton Microsoft Bing partnered with Kayak March 4, marking the second consecutive week the search upstart attacked market leader Google in one of its weaker areas: travelsearch. Kayak will fuel flight search results in the U.S. from multiple cities, airports and airlines on Bing. This will give Bing Travel users access to a broader set [...]
By: J. Gerry Purdy Recently, I spoke at a RCR Wireless seminar in Atlanta on trends in wireless broadband—using cellular data communications to provide uploading and downloading of rich media such as photos, music and movies with your mobile devices. The wireless operators are facing a tsunami in the growing demand for wireless data. It’s like they are standing on [...]
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