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What will Google do next? How will Yahoo counter the move? And how will this impact MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and the scores of smaller players vying to get their share of the search engine revenue pie? ...

In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources ...

America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month ...

What's the next search frontier? Will some new technology transform search as we know it? Will everything under the sun be searchable by the end of the year? Will the legal landscape set the industry back? It all depends on whom you ask ...

Users of T-Mobile's Sidekick devices experienced a "degradation of service" yesterday that prevented them from using e-mail, instant messaging and other data services ...

Microsoft detailed its user-friendlier "Project Green" at the Convergence 2005 conference in San Diego today. The enhanced technology road map for Microsoft Business Solutions' development effort includes support for current business management solutions until at least 2013, the company said ...

Microsoft is expected to unveil new network communications software tomorrow at the 2005 VON Conference in San Francisco. Codenamed "Istanbul," the product will let businesses manage telephones, instant messaging, e-mail and video conferencing through a unified system ...

After months of vehement arguments from anti-patent lobbyists, the European Union could finally approve a controversial draft software patent law on Monday. The decision would signify a possible end to a long battle over the use of such patents in the EU ...

Symantec announced earlier this week that it has been granted a new patent for antivirus technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers a system that enables detection of complex viruses, worms and spyware ...

In response to a pair of potentially dangerous security bugs, RealNetworks yesterday introduced new versions of its flagship RealPlayer software ...

In an attempt to gain additional share in the flash memory market, Intel yesterday introduced several new NOR products aimed at the cellular and embedded market segments. The company also announced it will make flash for memory cards to tap into a revenue stream that Samsung and Toshiba are already exploiting ...

TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design ...

JBoss' inaugural user conference and exhibition kicked off yesterday in Atlanta with two key announcements that analysts said signify a maturation of both JBoss and of open source ...

In the latest development in the ongoing battle over patent law in Europe, the European Commission has rejected a request by the European Parliament to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The directive was unanimously rejected by the EP in January and scheduled for additional review that still could lead to redrafts ...

As the Search Engine Strategies Conference gets rolling in New York this week, Yahoo announced this morning a pair of significant moves: The company said it is launching a developer network for programmers and also unveiled plans for a rebranding strategy for its Overture unit ...

In a move to expand its support for open-source technologies, IBM announced a partnership with Zend Technologies yesterday that will integrate Big Blue's Apache-based Cloudscape database and Zend's open-source PHP environment. Analysts said the alliance is bound to give both sides competitive advantages ...

On the eve of the second annual EclipseCon2005 user group meeting this week, Eclipse Foundation founding member Borland Software has announced it will take a seat on the organization's board of directors and that new members are joining the group's roster ...

E-commerce continues to grow dramatically in spite of security threats, recent research indicates. E-commerce dollar volume in 2004 rose 88 percent and transaction volume grew by 39 percent over the previous year, according to VeriSign's latest Internet Security Intelligence Briefing ...

Skype Technologies has begun allowing users to beta test free two-way short text messaging, the company announced yesterday. In addition to already receiving SMS messages for free, Skype users can now also send them via the company's "Skype to SMS" service ...

The Mozilla Foundation yesterday released a security update to the Firefox Web browser. The patch includes several fixes to guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution ...