IT news
Microsoft signs confidentiality agreement with Yahoo
24 Nov 2011
Microsoft provides its Bing search engine technology to Yahoo and also has an advertising alliance with it, both of which might be endangered if an IT or internet major were to acquire Yahoo
Bill Gates tells federal jury Novell's WordPerfect would have crashed PCs
22 Nov 2011
Bill Gates was the opening defence witness for his company, which is facing a $1 billion anti-trust lawsuit filed by Novell Inc, the Utah-based former owner of WordPerfect
Facebook hit with massive wave of pornographic and violent images
16 Nov 2011
Facebook is investigating reports that it has been hit with a massive wave of pornographic and violent images posted to its website
LinkedIn opens R&D centre in Bangalore
16 Nov 2011
LinkedIn believes it could emerge as a sales channel for small and medium businesses in India, and help them build brands.
Chinese business revamp dents Aveva’s results
16 Nov 2011
TCS's UK unit wins $2.2-bn order from Friends Life
09 Nov 2011
TCS's UK arm Diligenta has won a $2.2-billion order to provide back-end administration of pensions and insurance policies issued by UK-based Friends Life.
Hewlett-Packard mulls selling webOS unit: report
09 Nov 2011
Adobe to cut 750 jobs amid major business re-jig
09 Nov 2011
Google’s updated search engine to serve more relevant results
05 Nov 2011
The changes integrated in the search mechanism seek to understand whether a searcher is looking for results 'from the last week, day or even minute, says Google's Amit Singhal
UK, US reject calls for greater state control over internet
02 Nov 2011
Britain and the US strongly rejected calls from China and Russia for greater internet controls yesterday at a major conference on the future of cyberspace.