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“A Valleywag's tipster says Schuster's departure means "the end of Yahoo search." We think that's a bit overdramatic. Yahoo (YHOO) search is more popular than Microsoft (MSFT) search because Yahoo.com is a very popular home page -- not because it's source...

“Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company. But that’s not the source...

“November 17, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft Corp. filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco last week, asking a judge to invalidate several patents that are the subject of infringement suits filed by WebXchange Inc. against three source...

“No matter what you’re using for project management, take a close look at Pivotal Tracker. I’ve tried Bugzilla, Trac, Basecamp, FogBugz, Microsoft Project, and Lighthouse—and Tracker is the best for my needs. I’ve shown Tracker to many startups and many source...

“Canalys also reports that Apple grabbed the No. 2 spot in smartphone operating systems, as the next table shows. Nokia’s Symbian still dominates with 46.6% market share, but that’s down sharply from 68.1% last year. RIM, Microsoft (MSFT) and Linux source...

“Sweet! I love it! I've already sent links to my friends who keep begging me to teach them to program. Makes me wish my 15 month old son was more like 5 or 6 years old so I could get source...

“July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.'s profit trailed analysts' estimates for the third time since the Internet company sold shares to the public as spending on new projects surged, sending the stock down as much as 12 percent.”

“When Microsoft was caught flat-footed by the rise of netbooks, which couldn't run Vista, the company first re-offered Windows XP Home to mini-laptop vendors who were going over to Linux. Then, as it became clear that Vista had failed, Microsoft source...

“ Every founder is protective over his ideas, and he has every reason to be. For example, Steve Jobs will let Microsoft down for supposedly taking the GUI. Thinking of an idea is hard and many founders believe that they source...

“The last thing we need is another authentication solution for rails, right? That's what I thought. It was disappointing to find that all of the current solutions were overly complicated, bloated, poorly written, littered my application with code, and were source...

“Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine more...

“ The SideSight technology is contained in yet another paper that company executives are presenting at the User Interface Software and Technology conference this week. (See Microsoft's take on new ways that cell phones could "talk" as well as guided source...

“But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch (perhaps itching to get some of the limelight Microsoft has been receiving for adding OpenID to all Live ID accounts just the day before source...

“Having spent billions constructing a data center network over the last couple of years, Microsoft this morning launched, in limited "preview" form, Windows Azure, its platform for cloud computing. The announcement was made by Microsoft's top software executive, Ray Ozzie, source...

“ In it, you can create a presentation, theme it, add graphics and video, and then present it, share it via Slideshare, or download it as a PowerPoint or PDF file. It's so smooth to use that it's hard to source...