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Ballmer: Google is leader in advertising

Microsoft's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said that the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google when it comes to search and advertising. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Schmidt: Enterprise shouldn't fear Google cloud

Google CEO Eric Schmidt reckons the company's cloud computing model is mature and secure enough for the enterprise -- but without support staff, analysts say business users won't touch Google. Read more »

Will Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo backfire?

Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google. Read more »

Google confirms its mobile Linux plans

Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. Read more »

Dreamforce: Benioff preaches cloud computing gospel, Facebook

After a decade as the chief evangelist in the wilderness of software as a service, which has morphed into cloud computing, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff is having a more challenging time coming up with groundbreaking industry disruptions. Read more »

Microsoft to launch 'Windows Cloud' this month

Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London on Wednesday. Read more »

O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy

NEW YORK -- Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, is known as a futurist, but his keynote address on Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo was heavy on the realism in the wake of sobering news from Wall Street. Read more »

Adobe plots its path on the Web

Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business. Read more »

Adobe sees its future on the Web

Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »

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Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

Flex: The new face of design and development

Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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