Microsoft just announced that it will cut prices of it’s Xbox 360 Elite by 100 dollars. This announcement comes one week after Sony dropped the price of Playstation for the same amount. Research group, NPD Group, released figures that show video game sales falling for the fifth straight month in July of 2009 ( down [...]

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One of the largest web hosting companies just removed data transfer quotas from their hosting packages. 1 & 1 Internet serves 9 million customers has been in what has been termed an “arms race” for market share.

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia, once fierce enemies in the mobile industry, have decided to team up–placing Microsoft Office software on Nokia cellphones. As phones are increasingly used to do things that once only computers would do, Microsoft is charging into the mobile landscape seeking to fend off the threat from Google. Google has posed a threat [...]

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Microsoft will be moving it’s Azure headquarters out of Washington for tax purposes. The Azure data center is located in Quincy, Washington. Microsoft informed customers that applications would need to be moved from the Quincy data center. Soon Microsoft will roll out a tool to automate the move of applications to it’s San Antonio, Texas [...]

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A deal has been struck between Microsoft and Yahoo for coordinating search efforts to increase market share and innovation. With Yahoo and Bing combining, they will now command 26% of US search volume. Google however controls 70% of US search volume. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s Chief Executive, stated that investors still don’t understand the deal that [...]

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Amazon announced its plan to acquire apparel and footwear retailer Zappos.com. Zappos.com ranked 3rd among online retailers last week within the “Apparel and Accessories” category. Compensation for the acquisition was decided on $807 million in Amazon stock, plus about $40 million in cash and restricted stock. Currently this deal is worth $900 million.

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In a recent report by Chitika, it was discovered that Bing users may be more likely to click on an ad than Google users. After studying the results of more than 32 million ad impressions ( within its network of 50,000 websites ) in a week during July, it was observed that Bing users will [...]

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Microsoft recently announced its worst fiscal year in the company’s history ( since 1986 ). The company’s revenue fell 17%, showing both a hit from the economic downturn and displaying other problems in its business. Full-year sales of Microsoft’s flagship Windows software fell for the first time.

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The Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) project, created and sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, will help federal, state and local agencies better understand open source as an option for technology solutions. This project will start as a one year, 1.5 million dollar, contract and depending on the results may follow up with additional [...]

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