By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Google is getting smarter — it wants to personalize 20 percent of your searches. By using cookies as tags, Google can cater to your interests and your location.

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

First Google does a Super Bowl commercial and now Microsoft is doing a phone. As Eric Schmidt from Google noted about their commercial, “Hell has indeed frozen over.”

With this new cold comes the official announcement…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When it comes to surface computing there hasn’t been anything that has gotten much attention since Microsoft ventured in with their ill-fated industry event show pony.

You could, um, put you hands on it and move pre-chosen images or get real…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

A couple of months ago I dropped Google as my default browser search and switched over to Bing.

Yesterday, I gave up on Bing and moved on to Duck Duck Go.

I’ve had…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

There’s a battle going on right under your nose and you probably don’t even realize it’s happening. It’s an extremely competitive, economic fight to the death and it’s specifically happening in your inbox on your Read the full story »

Tags: Activesync , Apple , BlackBerry , GMail , Google , IMAP , iPhone , Microsoft , Microsoft Exchange , MobileMe , Ponzi Scheme , Push Email

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Not to bring the spirits of New York Entrepreneur Week down, but small companies are doomed. Only seven out of ten small business start-ups make it to the two year mark, and half make it to five years, according…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

This is your chance to be a Martian, and you don’t even have to step away from your computer screen. NASA and Microsoft created the “Be a Martian” Web site to let anyone participate in research and help them…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith

The adage, “You get what you pay for,” is true in almost every situation that would apply it to except the current state of open software. It is better than it has ever been and it is ready to help your business do the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

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Tags: Google , Microsoft , Search Engine , Twitter

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

Today I’ve been attending a technology seminar on a variety of topics. One of the items I learned about today was SQL Server 2008 and the new datatypes that are available. Among the items mentioned are:

• DateOnly (0001/01/01 – 9999/01/01)
• TimeOnly

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by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

In a recent press release from Microsoft and TellMe, a study has suggested that many mobile phone users would feel…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

At last year’s blogINDIANA conference in Indianapolis, IN I met Mike Trotzke. Mike Trotzke is the co-founder and Managing Member of SproutBox based out of Bloomington, IN. SproutBox is like an…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

I’ve been using .NET in my web development projects for around three years now. I can say that I’m happy with my experience. There’s plenty of resources available for developers like myself that are trying to teach themselves what’s going on in the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

It’s not a done deal quite yet, but there’s plenty of discussion hitting the airwaves today about the agreement reached between Microsoft and Yahoo to change the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

Microsoft’s $240 million interest ownership in Facebook has already paid off their new Bing.com search decision engine. The decision engine has been getting quite a bit of positive comments around the blogosphere and I’ve added the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

I just read a very interesting article about what could be the future of Google’s Chrome OS in the market. Everyone is excited about this new venture into the world of…

by Senior Staff Writer – Tyler Knott Gregson

Sneaky sneaky sneaky! Without much fanfare or applause, Microsoft finally launched Bing.com and let it go live to the public. At first, going to Bing.com was merely rumored about and speculated as to when we’d finally get our hands on the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Tyler Knott Gregson

Looks like Microsoft still has a few tricks up their sleeves, and they are about to unveil one of them this very week. That’s right, word is that Microsoft’s new and improved search is going to see the light of day this…

By: Senior staff writer – Easton Ellsworth

So it seems that Twitter is finally getting around to trying to make money.

Not that it ever should have been that hard for such a uniquely positioned service. Twitter has had the whole online world twitterpated (groan) practically since its inception three…