Microsoft, Yahoo may finally embrace with search, advertising deal

Microsoft, Yahoo may finally embrace with search, advertising deal

Update: Such a deal has just been announced.

Yahoo and Microsoft are close to a search and advertising deal that would finally bring them together in a fight against Google’s dominance, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo would use Microsoft’s Bing search engine for its… Continue Reading

Study: Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave

Study: Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave

Redmond’s latest and greatest — the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system — runs the risk of following a similar path its last version, Vista, according to a study being released this week by Dimensional Research. InformationWeek, which got an early look at the study and… Continue Reading

Updated: Video game sales grow 34 percent in February, PS 3 stays ahead of Xbox 360

Updated: Video game sales grow 34 percent in February, PS 3 stays ahead of Xbox 360

Monthly video game sales statistics from the NPD Group show that the video game industry continues to grow in 2008, defying any concerns about the recession and a cyclical slowdown. On top of that, the Sony PlayStation 3’s resurgence is becoming evident as it beat… Continue Reading

Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance

Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance

Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.

If you didn’t have the budget to… Continue Reading

Google Health coming, lets you manage your records online

Google Health coming, lets you manage your records online

updated

Google has previewed a prototype of Google Health, a consumer-oriented health service dedicated to helping people track their health information online. (See Google Blogoscoped for screenshots, and useful descriptions of the service.)

This is a big deal.

Online health is emerging to become one of the internet’s… Continue Reading

Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser

Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser

Google has just acquired Zenter, software that aimed to be a web-based Powerpoint-killer.

Zenter built the application in just a few months, and the company was one of the more dynamic Y Combinator-backed companies from this past winter: The founders also patented the software they built…. Continue Reading

Yahoo just needs to fix one thing: Monetization

Everyone seems to be chapping Yahoo’s hide these days, including even Yahoo itself — or at least one very audible Jerry Maguire over there. However while many large companies could benefit from more focus and cost-cutting, neither issue is really at the core of the… Continue Reading

Googlogy, and how to avoid the Google Juggernaut

Googlogy, and how to avoid the Google Juggernaut

It used to be de rigueur in Silicon Valley to stay out of the way of Microsoft’s product road map • even areas Microsoft hinted they might pursue. Nowadays, venture folks more commonly ask, “What are you going to do about Google?”

The reality of… Continue Reading

Anticipating Zune

Anticipating Zune

Microsoft’s new music player, Zune, has been unveiled and here are significant points. More than just a music player, it has a social networking component too, with a Marketplace to share music with friends. This could create some excitement in Silicon Valley, creating a cottage… Continue Reading