This is an interesting development in the browser wars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Dotzler points out that Bing’s […]
According to a report in the Financial Times, Microsoft has approached News Corp. about de-listing their sites from Google, which would be an apparent escalation in the search engine wars. It appears that Microsoft isn’t limiting this to just News Corp either. It’s reported that they are approaching numerous online publishers and offering to pay […]
Reports are that Microsoft and Yahoo have sealed the deal for Microsoft to offer their new Bing search engine as the default search engine for Yahoo. In my opinion this should give Google something to worry about. Bing is a very nice search engine. Microsoft finally broke out of their stagnant web presence with the […]
Microsoft rolled out an update to their .NET framework, and in it is an extension for Firefox. The update installs this extension and doesn’t allow you to uninstall it. As if that isn’t bad enough (Microsoft FORCING people to use their stuff – wasn’t there suits about this already?), Microsoft gives no documentation regarding what […]
90% of the work I do is in the open source software field. This blog runs off of open source software, as do most. It’s also turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Imagine, software that is given away for free is now generating tons of revenue in a field that keeps on growing. I think […]
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That’s how much Microsoft is offering to buy Yahoo for. I am kind of curious about this move. Microsoft has been investing a lot in trying to build up their search services and introduced the Live services last year to compete with services already offered by Google and Yahoo. It kind of leaves me wondering […]
There is a bunch of talk right now about the Net Neutrality Act. I decided it was time for me to explain it from a tech stand point. First off here is a short synopsis of what this is: “Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the […]
No wonder why Microsoft wants out of the partnership. MSNBC is still changing transcripts. AMERICABlog has all the details.