Users Report Glitches With Microsoft's Flash Patch
Microsoft plans to begin patching more than its own software, its first effort got off to a rocky start. By Wednesday, Windows users were complaining of glitches in updating Adobe's Flash Player through the Windows Update service.
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11.5.2006 Nvidia Hit With New Class Action Threat Over Windows Vista Glitches
A New Yorker is seeking support for a class action suit against the video card manufacturer because he says drivers for the company's high-end 8800 card have caused him problems.
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25.4.2007 Microsoft launches new homepage
Tech Dude writes on Back Page News: On December 14 we introduced a new home page for Microsoft.com.
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15.12.2006 Microsoft Shows Beta Homepage!
Microsoft has launched the Beta or a tester homepage. The homepage can be viewed at HomePage Preview. It is to be noted that the preview is working only in Internet Explorer at this point of time and it is giving an error while you browse through Firefox and same is the case with Opera.
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24.7.2006 New Live Search Homepage Launches
The new homepage for Windows Live Search, which LiveSide told us was coming last week, has gone live, a whole week before the Searchification event.
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19.9.2007 Microsoft Update Windows Vista Homepage
After a brief demo at the on-going CES conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft have launched a re-vamped version of the website for Windows Vista.
The slick new look makes a break from the often bland Microsoft product pages, and moves towards the Glass theme expected in Vista.
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5.1.2006 Microsoft launches new Windows Mobile homepage
Microsoft has launched an updated version of the Windows Mobile homepage over on Microsoft.com, powered by Silverlight.
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1.7.2008 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google, his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders. On Tuesday, Google may strike back at Redmond's heart: Microsoft Office.
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Google PC?
Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business.
Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes.
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3.1.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Google history - Milestones
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Google Talk Unleashed
I'm impressed with their initial effort, and I think when they add the ability to connect to MSN, AIM, Yahoo, et. al. they claim a major share of the IM market. Google Talk is worth a look
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Google fright for eBay
GOOGLE is testing a new service that could eventually propel it into new markets on the web in competition with a wide range of existing internet companies, from e-commerce giants like eBay to online listings sites.
News of the test, which Google would not discuss publicly, spread quickly around the internet and contributed to a 4 per cent fall in eBay's shares.
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Google Whistles a New Tune
Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
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16.12.2005 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 Google Sued Over Talk
Rates Technology (RTI), a company that owns several internet voice communication patents, is suing Google for $5 billion claiming the search giants' Google Talk software uses two RTI patented technologies without licensing them.
The suit, filed in October in US District Court in the Eastern District of New York, seeks damages in compensation for "irreparable damages" caused to RTI.
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2.1.2006 IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Playing catch-up with Google
At Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz didn't have enough resources to take on Google. Now, at Microsoft, he has plenty of money, but still has a lot of work to do.
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21.11.2006 No more replies from Google Answers
Google is pulling the plug on Google Answers, a service that allows people to submit questions over the Internet that researchers answer for a fee.
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29.11.2006 Google Groups gets an Update
Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. Now there's a new version on the block.
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24.1.2007 On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.
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23.7.2007 Google Toolbar 5 Beta
The Google Toolbar is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows you to take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web.
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16.12.2007 Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
Seventy percent of U.S. searches in June were done on Google Inc.'s search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise Pty. Ltd.
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21.7.2008 Google Gmail Outage
Google is having a really bad day. The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an outage affected its email service for approximately four hours.
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24.2.2009 Google releases Chrome 3
Google has released its third major revision of Chrome. The updated browser boasts a 150% (25% over its most recent stable release) increase in javascript performance since the launch of version 1.
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15.9.2009Google Adds Widgets to
Homepage
Apparently taking cues from
Microsoft, Google late Tuesday
announced that it would allow
users to personalize their
homepage much in the way
Live.com already works. The
new feature would allow for
drag and drop organization, as
well as an API to build
"modules" for use on
the homepage...
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14.12.2005Google Relents to Belgian
Court Ruling
After initially refusing to
comply with a court order in
Belgium to publish on its
homepage the decision of a
case that demanded it to stop
linking to Belgian newspapers
without their consent, Google
has relented. The company's
once sparse homepage now
contains the court order at
the bottom...
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26.09.2006Google testing new homepage design in Taiwan, Hong Kong
Google is testing a new
homepage design in Taiwan and
Hong Kong that takes advantage
of faster broadband speeds in
those markets, one of the
company's founders said
Thursday.
"We're
actually now experimenting
with trying new kinds of
homepages, for example in
Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong,
that are a completely
different type than we've
tried before on our U.S. site
as well as our European
sites," Sergey Brin, a
co-founder of Google and the
company's president of
technology, speaking to
investors during a conference
call.
Google
announced the new design for
its South Korean Web site in
May, during a keynote speech
by Chairman and CEO Eric
Schmidt at the Seoul Digital
Forum. The site's new design
ditches Google's famously
clean homepage design, adding
a row of icons above the
search bar and a row of
animated icons below it. ..
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20.07.2007Google Homepage Gets Privacy Link
Marissa Mayer, Google VP Search Products & User Experience: So, today we're making a homepage change by adding a link to our privacy overview and
policies. Google values our users' privacy first and foremost. Trust is the basis of everything we do, so we want you to be familiar and comfortable
with the integrity and care we give your personal data. We added this link both to our homepage and to our results page to make it easier for you to
find information about our privacy principles. The new "Privacy" link goes to our Privacy Center, which was revamped earlier this year to be more
straightforward and approachable, with videos and a non-legalese overview to make sure you understand in basic terms what Google does, does not, will,
and won't, do in regard to your personal information.
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04.07.2008Google to IE Users: Try
Firefox
Google on Wednesday rolled out
the first third-party
advertisement on its
traditionally spartan homepage
-- a link to download Firefox
with the Google Toolbar. The
promotion appears underneath
Google's search box and is
currently visible only to
Internet Explorer users...
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27.04.2006Google redesigns its iPhone homepage
The company said at MacWorld Monday that it will retool its all-in-one Google application for the iPhone, improving the UI and speeding up loading
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15.01.2008Google Rebuffs Belgian Court
Demand
Lawyers for Google in Belgium
said on Wednesday they planned
to appeal a court ruling in
the country that ordered the
search giant to stop linking
to Belgian publications on its
Google News site. The company
is also refusing to add a link
about the decision to its
homepage...
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20.09.2006Google Gets a Bit More Personal
Google on Friday moved to
combine two of its separate
personalization features in
order to make searching a bit
more friendly for its users.
When signed into the site,
Google will automatically
custom tailor search results
based on search history and
preferences selected for the
personalized homepage...
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03.02.2007Yahoo unveils modular Go 3.0 mobile homepage to combat Google
In order to compete with Google, Yahoo needed a way to present the mobile part of its platform as an open service...
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08.01.2008More types of gadgets for iGoogle
Google Desktop lets you not only search your computer easily, but you can also personalize your desktop. From cultivating a virtual potted plant, to
reading the latest news and checking the weather forecast, you can customize your desktop with a variety of gadgets and a sidebar. Some of you have
asked if you can also put gadgets on iGoogle homepages next to your other gadgets. And starting today, the answer is yes.
With
Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, you can you now embed Google Desktop Gadgets right into your iGoogle homepage.
Gadgets on an iGoogle homepage can have more advanced functionality, such as
playing music from your computer. You can find
them alongside other gadgets in the iGoogle Content Directory. We've also improved some of the other features; such as better looking Quick Search
Box, support for multiple copies of a gadget, and improved Outlook search functionality. Read more on the
Google Desktop Blog and check out
these gadgets you can now add to your iGoogle homepage.
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06.10.2007Google Adds Privacy Policy Link
After a month of pressure from privacy groups, search engine Google has finally agreed to add a link on its homepage to the company's privacy
policy. Google had resisted the addition of a privacy link, saying it did not want to clutter its homepage. " We're making a homepage change by
adding a link to our privacy overview and policies, " Marissa Mayer, vice president of Search Products & User Experience, said in a July 3 Google
Blog post. " Google values our users' privacy first and foremost. Trust is the basis of everything we do, so we want you to be familiar and
comfortable with the integrity and care we give your personal data. "
Google's privacy policy came under fire in early June when
EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the World Privacy Forum, Consumer Action, the EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation), the ACLU of Northern California, and the Consumer Federation of California sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining that
under California law, a commercial Web site must "conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site."
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08.07.2008Google China Tests New Homepage
Google China is
testing a new home page which, unlike the current minimalist
design, filled with many links. The section under the searching field lists some of the most searched queries in different topics such as music, game,
sport and education. The sidebar contains links to useful tools, which includes Googles Pinyin IME and Toolbar, Internet speed test (FTW? I know
people still do it, but err), and a calendar. It wasnt all that bad until you reach the bottom of the page, which contains a HUGE list of links to
other sites, from
Google Daohang - Google Chinas
website directory.
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06.11.2007Google Takes Personal Pages
Mobile
Not long after making
available a mobile version of
Gmail, Google has launched a
version of its personalized
homepage for cell phones.
Users can customize the page
with content they select and
view it wherever they go. The
interface will automatically
adjust depending on the screen
size...
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13.01.2006Google Unveils Biggest Site Redesign
In a move that is sure to
alienate Google
traditionalists, the search
company unveiled the biggest
change ever to its homepage
Wednesday, making a push
toward what it calls "a
universal search model."
Believe it or not, the idea
started with Britney Spears...
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17.05.2007Windows Vista Homepage, Get's
an update!
Check out the new Windows
Vista homepage, now updated
with Screenshots, and
information of the nifty
features! Click
http://www.microsoft.com/windo
wsvista/default.aspx>Here To
be Redirected! ..
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06.01.2006New Yahoo Homepage Goes Live
Calling it the most
significant redesign since the
portal's launch in 1994,
Yahoo has put live its new
homepage that incorporates
AJAX and DHTML technologies.
Unlike the new Netscape.com,
Yahoo has kept much of its
content the same...
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18.07.2006Twitter changes homepage to focus on search
Twitter has updated its' main page to re-focus the social networking and micro-blogging service as a search engine. The new look homepage is only
available to new users and will be shown when you are not logged in to Twitter. Biz Stone, Co-founder of Twitter, said in a company statement,
"Twitter has moved from simple social networking into a new kind of communication and a valuable source of timely information." Stone also confirmed
that Twitter will be tweaking the homepage in the future, responding to customer feedback. Over the past 12 months Twitter has gone from a million
unique visitors to over 20 million in the US alone.
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29.07.2009Yahoo Previews New Homepage
Yahoo on Monday put live a
preview version of its
upcoming new homepage design,
which boasts simplified
navigation and personalization
features. Yahoo has
incorporated AJAX and DHTML
technologies, as well as a new
Yahoo! Pulse feature
highlighting hot content...
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17.05.2006AOL Tests New, Yahoo-Like Homepage
AOL on Thursday began a
limited beta test of a new
AOL.com portal, which
streamlines the look and
utilizes AJAX to make the page
more snappy. However, initial
reviews of the site point out
it's almost a direct copy of
Yahoo's latest homepage that
went live last July...
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27.04.2007Firefox Downloads Top 100
Million
Mozilla browser continues to
make headway on IE, despite
some glitches...
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