By Paul Thurrott, 09/09/2010
Google on Wednesday introduced a major update to its core search service, hoping to leapfrog a series of usability and technological gains made by its main competitor, Bing....
By Paul Thurrott, 09/09/2010
In a unique new legal maneuver, Microsoft this week permanently shut down 276 web domains that were being used by a cybergang to spread spam and malware to hundreds of thousands of PCs....
By Paul Thurrott, 09/08/2010
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd has accepted an unusual co-president appointment at database giant Oracle, giving Oracle a tidy little stock boost in the process....
By Paul Thurrott, 09/06/2010
One of the big remaining mysteries around Microsoft's new mobile platform, Windows Phone, is when, or whether, the software giant will make its Zune Pass music subscription service available outside the US....
By Paul Thurrott, 09/03/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including ... an IE 6 usage drop is an IE 8 gain, Microsoft's Fix It tool for the DLL vulnerability, Toshiba's new Tablet PC is no Tablet PC, HP's $2.3 billion purchase of a company no one's heard of, Microsoft patents OS shutdowns, Paul Allen vs. the world, and some upcoming browser updates ......