Intel announced that the company had agreed to buy McAfee, it is the computer antivirus software maker. Intel seeks to expand its presence in security services and the company will spend $7.7 billion in cash buying McAfee. McAfee, Inc. is an antivirus software and computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. McAfee markets McAfee
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Yahoo and Microsoft start the public phase of their huge search deal from last year. Starting this week, Yahoo searches will be “Powered by Bing.” Under that deal between those two companies, Microsoft provides the back-end crawling, listing, and ranking technologies that generate search results, while Yahoo is responsible for presenting those results on search
This week (12-13 Aug) in Johannesburg (Africa) took place Tech4Africa , the first major social web conference in South Africa. It is a very important event for this part of the world. The newest data shows that the majority of people in Africa live on less than $2 a day, and struggle with getting electricity.
Google added a free Gmail feature to make calls to telephones anywhere in the world from microphone-equipped computers. As a trial, all calls in the U.S. and Canada are free through the end of the year. Google plans to make money on this PC-to-phone service by charging 2 cents and up per minute for international
eBay is launching a rewards program called eBay Bucks. It allows eBay shoppers from U.S. who are registered members of the marketplace, to earn 2 percent cash back on many items purchased through the website with PayPal. Info from an official eBay website: What is the eBay Bucks Rewards Program? The eBay Bucks Rewards Program
I just received this text message from ATT – “Committed to improving you superior service, we recently launched a new cell site that will enhance coverage between W 110th and 116th street and surrounding area.” That sounds like an another good news for New Yorkers. More than a week ago we mentioned about Wi-Fi coming
Last month Yahoo lost, Google and Bing gained visitors. To learn more visit Search Engine Market Share page.
Last month IE and Safari get more fans, while other browsers lost users. According to the newest data browser version market share looks as follow: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 – 26.87% Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 – 16.97% Firefox 3.6 – 16.15% Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 – 11.43% Chrome 5.0 – 6.48%
