A friend of mine, Emily, is moving to New York to learn, as she puts it, a practical skill. After working in the arts for a while, and majoring in the arts, she decided drop the harsh, struggling lifestyle to learn a more generally applicable skill. You know, in a more technical profession where the [...]
How are you saying good-bye to 2009 tonight? Sleeping like any other day? Dinner with friends? Clubbing with strangers? Counting down with Dick Clark (or is it Ryan Seacrest now)? Here at SoftwareNewsDaily, we wanted to say farewell by reminiscing our top 10 technology news stories of 2009. When I say “our” top 10 stories, [...]
Yahoo and Microsoft will couple against alpha-male search engine Google. After several years of negotiations, offers, withdrawals, and hesitations, the companies finally worked out a 10-year deal in July of this year. Google was required to pay no upfront dowry, and eventually have full access to Yahoo’s search power for use in new search engine [...]
Late last night, Google posted a new blog entry announcing their plans to develop a Google Chrome Operating System. A natural progression following their successful Chrome Browser, the Google Chrome OS will be their attempt to re-invent what an operating system should be. Their aim is to create a lightweight, open source OS that is [...]
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has received lots of praise from all over the Internet in the past few weeks. Bing just may be better than Google on a few fronts, but that doesn’t mean people will switch their homepage to Bing anytime soon. Google is just too entrenched as THE way to search the [...]
As I wrote yesterday, Microsoft is attempting to re-invent its search platform in the form of a new website called Bing. The video below is your first official look at what Bing is bringing to the table. Bing is directly competing with Google, but Microsoft is going to spend up to $100 million on advertising [...]
Microsoft, in its attempt to control every aspect of your computing experience, is set to compete directly with Google and change the way you search. Its yet-to-be-unveiled new search engine is called Bing, and Microsoft is making a huge gamble on persuading users to switch from Google. Advertising Age reports that Microsoft will be spending [...]