A new Microsoft-commissioned test by NSS Labs found IE8 and IE9 have boosted their malware protections ahead of browsers from Google, Apple and others. – A new
NSS Labs report puts Internet Explorer way ahead of rival browsers
from Google, Apple, Mozilla and Opera in the fight against malware.
The report, which was commissioned by Microsoft, is
the fourth analysis by NSS Labs aimed at
testing the ability of Web browsers to block quot;socially …
Google claimed it’s Google Places, Place Search and Place Pages are designed to deliver the best information to users, but TripAdvisor, Yelp, Citysearch and WebMd feel slighted. – Google Dec. 13 defended itself from suggestions that it
gives its own Place Pages local search service preferential treatment on Google.com,
arguing that anything it does is to help users find the best information
possible.
The issue arose after the Wall Street
Journal published this story (p…
Apple releases its iOS 4.2 update for mobile devices, with features such as AirPrint and AirPlay, as CEO Steve Jobs takes another backhanded swipe at tablet rivals. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time using
the new iOS 4.2 update, available for download Nov. 22, to launch yet another
broadside at his competitors in the mobile space. The update introduces
features such as multitasking, folders and Game
Center to the iPad.
quot;Once again, the iPad with iO…
Blekko Nov. 1 launched to public beta to challenge Google, Bing and Yahoo with a curated search engine geared to pare spam. – Blekko Nov. 1 became the latest startup to challenge
Google with a search engine that lets its users customize and refine searches to
can some of the spam.
Machine-generated search engines such as Google, Yahoo
and Bing take users’ queries and search for these digital needles of
information in …
At 0223 GMT, Raffles Medical shares were up 6.9% at $2.33 with over one million shares changing hands.
At 0307 GMT, Genting Singapore shares were up 2.4% at S$2.18 on a volume of 131.3 million shares.
Google’s $700 million bid to buy travel software company ITA was formally protested by Expedia, Kayak.com and others with the formation of FairSearch.org Oct. 26. – Top travel Websites have marshaled their efforts to stop Google’s planned
purchase of travel software company ITA Software, which the companies claim
would give Google too much sway over their industry.
Expedia and its brands Expedia.com, Hotwire and TripAdvisor; Sabre Holdings
and its brand Tra…
Yahoo’s Messenger App for iPhone includes video calling, challenging Apple’s own FaceTime application in an increasingly crowded market for mobile multimedia software. – Yahoo Oct. 12 said it has added video calling capability to its instant
messaging application for the iPhone, rivaling Apple’s own FaceTime video
conferencing product.
Available for free now in Apple’s App Store, Yahoo Messenger App for iPhone
let users make voice and video calls to their contac…
Verizon Wireless unveils its V Cast Apps for Android application store, which will compete with Google’s Android Market for developers. Google declined to take the bait. – Verizon Wireless formally unveiled its V Cast Apps application store Sept.
21, opening a new rivalry with partner Google and its Android Market.
The No. 1 wireless carrier has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Google,
shipping millions of its Droid line of smartphones based on the search engine…
The best-selling political memoirs in Britain
TONY BLAIR, Britain’s former prime minister, published his memoirs on Wednesday September 1st. The few people who have already read them cover to cover report that, in addition to the familiar stuff about how awful his relationship with Gordon Brown was, Mr Blair admits to being manipulative and to having a developed sense of his own destiny. The book is likely to sell well, though it seems that British book buyers are rather more interested in American politicians than in their own. Three of the four bestselling political memoirs in Britain (since barcodes made such things easier to count) are by Americans. The Brit who separates the Clintons near the top, comedian John O’Farrell, was never really a politician: he stood for election once (in Maidenhead) and then made some rather archaic puns about the experience.
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Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble may be engaged in an intensifying price war for their respective e-readers, with prices for the Kindle and Nook dropping, respectively, to $189 and $199. While some pundits have predicted that prices could drop even further, pressured by the companies competition with each other and the Apple iPad, one analyst suggests that e-reader prices can only fall so far, and the technologys slow evolution might inhibit increased sales. Stripped-down e-readers currently sell for just under $150. – Amazon.com and Barnes amp; Noble might be heating up the
e-reader wars this week, with tit-for-tat price cuts on their respective Kindle
and Nook devices, but at least one analyst thinks the companies current
strategy can only extend so far.
On June 21, Barnes
amp; Noble announced a price red…
After a statement from opposition SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić that they want to take away voters from DSS, the party has stated that SNS have no become rivals.
Both the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) leader Nikolić and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) officials have confirmed that they are battling for voters now and are rivals.
The Federal Trade Commission is looking for official declarations from Google rivals about Google’s proposed purchase of mobile ad provider AdMob, which could signal the regulator may challenge the deal. Bloomberg News said March 10 that the FTC is now asking Google competitors and advertisers for input about the deal to help its investigation into whether the purchase would reduce competition in the mobile ad market. This sector includes Microsoft, Yahoo and a host of smaller startups such as Millenial Media, Jumptap, Greystripe and many others.
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The Federal Trade Commission is looking for official
declarations from Google rivals and advertisers about Google’s proposed
purchase of mobile ad provider AdMob, which could signal the regulator may
challenge the deal.
Google offered to buy AdMob, which sells ads for placement on…
Consumer Watchdog advocate John Simpson pored over Google’s 2009 Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and made a striking discovery. While Google listed only Microsoft and Yahoo by name in its 2008 10-K filing, the search engine listed 10 companies that it views as competitors in the 2009 document. Yahoo and Microsoft Bing are listed as Google’s chief competition in search. No surprises there. What is surprising is what company isn’t listed as a competitor. Has Apple become Google’s Lord Voldemort to the point where it dare not speak its name as the maker of the iPhone and iPad? See who and what Google regards as its foremost rivals in this eWEEK slide show.
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Defending champion Rafael Nadal has declared himself fighting fit for the rigours of a Grand Slam, but the world No2 is not certain he will be back to his best at the Australian Open this week. Nadal, whose five-set defeat of Roger Federer in last year’s final left the Swiss maestro in tears,
Real Madrid closed back to within five points of leaders Barcelona with a late 3-2 win at title rivals Valencia in the early hours of yesterday morning – Argentine Ezequiel Garay netting an 83rd minute winner. All five goals came in a sensational second half with Gonzalo Higuain twice putting
Kraft Foods Inc may raise its offer for British chocolatier Cadbury Plc or offer more cash in its bid if rival takeover offers emerge, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday. Kraft took a $16.8 billion hostile offer for Cadbury to shareholders two weeks ago. Most of the
Former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a candidate to be the EU’s first president, stepped up Wednesday her attack on the selection process and challenged her male rivals to a open contest. Vike-Freiberga, who was former communist eastern Europe’s first female head of state after the
