Microsoft scrapped IE8 privacy to woo advertisers

On Tuesday, software giant Microsoft Corp. extended mobile capacity of their cloud-based Office 365 software. This step will help the Windows maker to utilise its dominant market position in business apps to create a similar...

It has been revealed by a DoJ official that Larry Page, the CEO of Google, was aware that the search engine giant was placing ads for illegal online Canadian pharmaceuticals. Peter Neronha has told The Wall Street Journal that...

TalkTalk is to trial a new version of its anti-malware software, which some critics have claimed spies on the ISP’s users. The system works by scanning websites for malware and virusesbefore they reach users...

The global market share for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser has fallen below 50 per cent, web analytics firm StatCounter has found. Microsoft IE, which has enjoyed a dominating position in the browser market for many...

Online retail giant Amazon is planning to come up with its own web-based video subscription service and is in talks with big media houses such as Time Warner. Citing three people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that...

Microsoft has issued a response to reports that stated it chose to overlook Internet Explorer 8's privacy to make money from web adverts over privacy, tech news site The Register has reported.In response to the report, first...

Microsoft chose profit from web advertisements over automatic privacy settings in its Internet Explorer (IE8) web browser, the Wall Street Journal has reported.While developing the web browser in 2008, Microsoft's product team...

Today's News@Five round up brings to you the latest about Apple's war with Google, which is on verge of leaving China for good. Software giant Microsoft has announced in an advisory released with last weeks Patch Tuesday, that...

While the European Commission is reportedly planning to wind up the long-standing antitrust case against Microsoft for bundling IE with Windows, rival web browsers are urging regulators not to approve the software maker’s...

Microsoft Corp. has been accused by European Union for adversely affecting market competition by incorporating its Internet Explorer web browser with its flagship Windows operating systems only.  In its fresh set of...

The term AJAX, which stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,” was first coined by James Jesses Garrett of Adaptive Path in an essay earlier this year. Although Garrett describes Ajax as a “fundamental shift in what’s...