Here’s a nice web page that you can use instead of the usual Google homepage that makes it easier to begin many types of searches that Google now offers.

Windows XP update to add support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 opens a new facet to marketing the operating system.

While Toyota and Nissan reported their “best month ever,” General Motors and Ford reported more than dismal sales for April.

OASIS, the consortium of electronic business mega corporations, takes another step in its goal of international standards for the internet world. They announced the development of a committee to create a reference model for service-oriented-architectures (SOA-RM).

American International Group (AIG) will shed nearly $2.7 billion from its net worth as it prepares to restate its financial results for the past five years because of accounting errors.

Microsoft Great Plains is the definite stake for Microsoft Business Solutions for the US market.

Online shoppers aren’t impulsive buyers, according to a study of 8 million consumers and their Internet buying habits.

Networking juggernaut Cisco Systems Inc. will unveil their newest offering in the world of networking technology during Cisco CEO John Chambers’ keynote address at Interop this morning. The ASA 5500 combines many new features in a sleek new device for organizations that like to one stop shop.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported that worldwide sales of semiconductors increased by 13.2% in the first-quarter compared to the same time last year.

Special activities at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA to include shuttle crew.

The cover story about blogs in last week’s Business Week (magazine cover date today, 2 May) has been widely commented on in blogs around the world.

The Neiman Marcus Group’s Board of Directors has approved the sale of the Company to an investment group made up of Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus.

Lenovo has now completed the acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division making it the third-largest PC company in the world.

You’ve launched your web site. You’ve implemented a public relations campaign and spent oodles of money advertising in trade journals, magazines and newspapers. But your site’s daily visitors are still in single digits and your sales arewell let’s just say that early retirement is no longer an option.

A recently extended invitation from the Redmond-based software titan to the open source community calls for discussion and bridge building.

Britain ended an era with the launch of the 441st and final Skylark rocket. The rocket launched from Sweden and contains several experiments for the European Space Agency. This marks the end of nearly 50 years of British contributions to the exploration of space.

The better the web manager the more time they will spend out of the office; the more time they will spend in front of the reader.

After years of resting on the “you-gotta-upgrade-soon” throne, Microsoft’s latest software and OS offerings may be flooded with the echo of “upgrade when I get around to it.”

Adding to the ever-expanding lexiconical (lexiconal? lexiconiferous?) universe that cyberspace has berthed, the most recent newborn phenomenon of “podcasting” has caused radio giant Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and Viacom’s Infinity Broadcasting to develop a whole new brand of radio.

Lengthy string of highly publicized breaches could lead to the federal government passing a law requiring better security.

Apple devotees line up early to pay $129 for the latest update to OS X and new features Microsoft hopes to match in late 2006.

I’ve been asked to restart “Team 99.” What was that? Well, Longhorn got its name from the bar that’s between Whistler and Blackcomb up in British Columbia.