AptiQuant a Psychometric Consulting firm as caused a stir in the IT world in the last few days following its recent experiment that compares people’s intellect to the web browser being used to search online. The result of their experiment??? Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than users of other popular web Read News…

Don Mattrick: “We’ve posted growth each of the past six years and are looking for our biggest growth this year” Microsoft unveiled a raft of new features for its Xbox Kinect system as it looks to entice hardcore gamers to the hardware. Titles like Mass Effect and Ghost Recon will utilise the infer-red motion-detection system Read News…

Microsoft says it plans to file a European antitrust complaint against Google, accusing the firm of trying to edge it out of the search market. The software maker claims that Google used its dominant position to restrict the growth of Microsoft services. It cites a number of anti-competitive practices, including Google limiting the ability of Read News…

Microsoft researches, at the Siggraph 2010 event, showed off the latest next-generation tool for imagery at street-level. It’s called Street-Slide and is like a combination of Google Street View and Bing’s Streetside products. It offers a wide panoramic view of a long street. Streetslide offers a smooth transition between two types of imagery and appears Read News…

Yahoo Japan has today confirmed that it will soon be using Google’s search engine technology, rather than Microsoft’s which is used by its strategic partner Yahoo Inc. Yahoo Japan is 35%-owned by Yahoo Inc, however majority shareholder in the company is Softbank, which still retains a 40% stake. Yahoo currently has a 57% market share Read News…

Microsoft’s search engine Bing, has shown impressive results over the last 12 months, by gaining 12.7% of the market since its launch in June 2009. This is an increase of over 1.5% since January this year, and has risen steadily ever since. Google and Yahoo still dominate the bulk of the market, however todays news Read News…

It is thought that Dell and Google are currently in talks with Google in combining the search engine’s Chrome OS with Dell’s Computer hardware. When Google originally announced the launch of chrome OS devices at some point during the second half of 2010, they mentioned that they were working with a number of technology companies Read News…

Microsoft has today revealed a long-anticipated online version of the widely used Office application suite, in response to the growing popularity of Google Docs and other cloud-based internet applications. The move represents a change from Microsoft’s usual model of application licences to providing the online version of Office completely free for anyone who holds a Read News…