Google reportedly readies GDrive, again (and again, and again)

A report from the Wall St. Journal today has Google readying a launch for its version of Dropbox/SkyDrive/iCloud (although they don’t even mention SkyDrive), called Drive.  The new service, which the WSJ says may ... Read more »

Is Bing cranking up new social features?

Much has been made recently both about Google’s somewhat forced entry into social search as it tries to compete with Facebook, and with Bing’s much friendlier relationship with not only Facebook, but Twitter.  Last ... Read more »

Can a Google+ backlash help Bing?

There’s been a bit of a tempest in a teapot brewing this week as Google introduced what it’s calling “Search Plus Your World”.  The feature, which in some respects is similar to the way ... Read more »

Fired Windows Phone evangelist lands at Google

Joe Marini, who was fired from Microsoft after tweeting about the at the time unreleased Nokia 800, has landed at Google, according to, of course, a tweet by Marini this morning: The former Principal ... Read more »

Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house

On Halloween, Tom Rizzo, a SharePoint Senior Director, poked some fun and threw some stones at rival Google, commenting on Google’s plan to retire Google Wave, and more.  He went so far as to ... Read more »

Microsoft Security Essentials detects Chrome as “trojan”: releases fix

Earlier today reports began amassing in a Google Chrome forum that Microsoft Security Essentials was detecting the PWS:Win32/Zbot trojan as being present in Google Chrome, and removing the web browser from user machines once ... Read more »

Bing: losing money (and catching Google?)

Lots of news about Bing this week, and no, there still haven’t been any announcements about Bing HTML5, even after Build.  Everyone from disgruntled former employees to CNN Money to Google exec Eric Schmidt ... Read more »

The one where we try to make sense of patents

So, Google announced today that it was acquiring Motorola Mobility, and we’ve been reading every blog post we can find since then to try and make sense of it all.  In fact, we were ... Read more »

Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion

In a rather surprising move today, Google and Motorola Mobility jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Below is ... Read more »

More TOS changes, this time it’s Yahoo! (and we go back in time, to Windows Live Mail Active Search)

Early last week, Dropbox changed its Terms of Service and set off a bit of a tempest in a teacup.  Although since then, it’s become clear that the “uproar” didn’t bother investors too much, ... Read more »