Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. increased their market share in the online search arena as Microsoft Corp.'s MSN slipped, according to Web research firm Nielsen//NetRatings.

Intel Corp. opened on Monday a new research and development center at its lab in Braunschweig, Germany, to focus on the design of multicore processors.

Google Inc. plans to revamp its enterprise search devices on Wednesday when it announces a new version of its Google Mini for small and medium-sized businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organizations.

A Google kipofozza vállalati kereső szolgáltatásait, a cég szerdán bemutatta a Google Mini kis- és középvállalatok számára készülő új verzióját és a nagyobb szervezeteket megcélzó Search Appliance továbbfejlesztését.

McAfee Inc. has jazzed up its Web site with a new online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems. Called the McAfee Threat Center, the portal was launched Monday as part of a redesign of the McAfee.com Web site.

The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.

Microsoft Corp. is quietly adding services to its Windows Live portfolio to compete with services Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. already have in place.

A Novell a BrainShare konferencián mutatta be az Intellisync és a Research in Motion cégekkel való együttműködés keretében született új, vezeték nélküli mobil eszközökre fejlesztett e-mail és csoportmunka támogató megoldásait.

A Microsoft elkezdte kereső motorja új verziójának tesztelését, amely egy új képkeresési szolgáltatást, átalakított kezelőfelületet, valamint olyan eszközöket is tartalmaz, amelyek segítik a keresési találatok pontosítását. Emellett új nevet is adtak neki: Windows Live Search.

Never mind worrying about hackers stealing your password. A security researcher with the Finnish military has shown how they could steal your fingerprint, by taking advantage of an omission in Microsoft Corp.'s Fingerprint Reader, a PC authentication device that Microsoft has been shipping since September 2004.

Google Inc. has introduced its lowest-priced Google Mini search device to date, in an attempt to capture the most price-sensitive segment of the small-business market.

A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support -all features long taken for granted by Firefox users -is now available.

A Microsoft megújította MSN Search kereső szolgáltatásának kinézetét, hogy harmonizáljon a Live termékcsaláddal. Ezt a lépést az oldal Windows Live Search névre történő átkeresztelése követi majd.

The flash memory chips popular in consumer devices from iPod music players to memory cards for digital cameras and mobile phones saved the DRAM (dynamic RAM) industry from a major collapse last year, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Monday.

History buffs can search George Washington's manuscripts online today for terms like "revolution," but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form.

Oracle Corp. and a security researcher are trading heated barbs over a vulnerability in the company's software that has gone unpatched since it was discovered in October.

Google Inc. attorneys will square off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) at a Feb. 27 hearing over the issue of providing the government with information about searches for pornography on the company's site.

Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly-spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. The Nyxem worm - also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm - is programmed to overwrite all of the files on computers it infects on Feb. 3, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure Corp.

The U.S. government is asking a California court to force Google Inc. to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the Internet.

As consumer demand for online video swells, America Online Inc. (AOL) announced Tuesday that it has acquired Truveo Inc., a provider of video search, to boost its capabilities in this area, considered one of the hottest segments of the search engine market.