Apple, along with fellow tech heavyweights Google and Microsoft, are accused in a new lawsuit of patent infringement for their use of icons that include a graphical representation of a file's contents.
The 4-page complaint filed this month by Arizon-based Cygnus Systems, Inc charges all three companies with infringing on its March 2008 US patent No.
, titled "System and Method for Iconic Software Environment Management."
"The [patent] generally Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
29
Nov
24
Google Slows Hiring Rate, Focuses on Costs, CEO Says (Update1)
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) --
, owner of the most
popular Internet search engine, is adding fewer employees and
focusing on controlling expenses amid the global economic slump,
Chief Executive Officer
said.
“We have slowed our hiring, but we’re still hiring,”
Schmidt said in an interview that will be aired on Bloomberg
Television at 9 p.m. New York time. “We’re still doing the Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
21
The Internet search market, which had seemed like a contest
had won, is showing signs of life.
are trying to get in on the lucrative territory.
, and Ask.com and Yahoo are innovating on their search pages to make things interesting. But the best evidence of this perhaps is Google's own enhancement today of its search engine, combining its own search algorithm with contributions from its user base:
.
The new features let users move entries Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
13
continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over
.
In October, Google's share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company
.
At the same time, Yahoo's share slipped to 17.7 percent, from 18.1 percent a month earlier and 21.7 percent a year ago. Microsoft's share rose slightly in Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
18
Google's share price soared late yesterday, rallying 25 per cent from its low point of the day, as the internet search company's latest quarterly earnings proved resistant to the wider downturn in advertising markets.
The figures offered the most direct evidence so far to support predictions by Google executives that their form of "pay-per-click" advertising, in which advertisers only pay when internet users click on their ads, would do better in Read the rest of this entry »