Now this looks compelling – a Skype phone that you use to make and receive phone calls on a wireless network without needing a computer.

Microsoft will reportedly begin a test of its ad placement service in the US at MSN Search.

MSN and Shopping.com are teaming up, so that MSN Shopping customers will be able to shop from thousands more online merchants.

Connexion by Boeing has Intel as a partner and promoter of its high-speed wireless service on airplanes.

Late last night I turned on my television and discovered a used car salesman trying to sell this cheap clunker of a car to recently pink-slipped and bankrupt dot-com unfortunates.

Now that Ask Jeeves has acknowledged they are going ahead with their own search advertising service, in order to celebrate the switch, apparently Ask is going to revamp the appearance of their search engine result pages in order to reflect these changes.

The metasearch engine combines results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves with MSN, citing minimal duplication in their answers.

Market research is an essential part of any business that wants to offer products or services that are focussed and well targeted.

Passage of the federal highway bill means the Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure Program will continue.

For those who’ve been keeping up, keyword relevance-based searches will soon look like top-loading VCR’s; they still may work but who has the time? Soon search engines will think, as evidenced by Engenium’s latest patented application, Semetric V.4.0.

A recent Gartner study claims ATM and debit card fraud cost $2.75 billion in losses last year.

When it comes to making money online, there are a wide variety of web sites with different graphics and copy with some being very detailed and some not.

A study by real-time web analytics firm OneStat.com claims most users submit two-word queries to search engines.

At any given time, millions of people are jacked into the internet. They are shopping for the perfect MP3 player, researching trends, or reading the latest news – often with little or no awareness of where the product or information originates.

Yahoo plans on launching a new ad service on Wednesday according to a story from CNET and Yahoo has designed to compete with AdSense from Google. The small publisher market continues to grow and Yahoo wants some of that business currently pretty much exclusive to Google.

In a move that can show off each competitor’s knowledge of open-source computing, both Microsoft and Google will be participating in the Golden Penguin Bowl quiz session at the upcoming LinuxWorld conference, which is scheduled for August 8-11 in San Fransisco.

The Redmond-based software company acknowledged it is looking into a potential security issue reported by security firm eEye.

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The Russian media has reported that Google may be interested in setting up operations at a new IT park in St. Petersberg.

The defection of Dr. Kai-fu Lee to Google is the first digit to fall from the leprous giant, Microsoft-the outward manifestation of a bigger problem long in the making. That which made the software giant tall, the nourishment of cutting edge engineering, is also the chief repast of the unexpected rival in Google. The nervous tapping of billionaire fingers can be heard all the way from Redmond.

Yahoo has filed several patent applications, including one for user-specific vertical search, but Yahoo may or may not be so lucky as to have that patent granted.

The paper aims to identify the role human factors play in determining the success or failure or knowledge management initiatives.