The new University of California research concludes that the web surfing and searching triggers certain key brain centers that largely control complex reasoning and decision making.  Read the rest of this entry »

“We offered 33 bucks – not too long ago – and it is 11 and a half (Yahoo share price). So I do not know what price might have got the job done,”

Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft Chief Executive recently said. He was responding to a query posed by David Smith, a Gartner analyst, on whether the firm might take another swing at acquiring Yahoo now that its stock is so low. Read the rest of this entry »

A new experimental online platform ‘Many Eyes’ has various interesting features to compare charts, tables and data feeds. One tool, termed an interleaved tag cloud, allows users to compare the relative frequencies of the words in two passages side by side – for example, President George Bush’s State of the Union addresses in 2003 and 2004. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has used its finances since going public to acquire many innovative startups – ranging from video site YouTube, photo-sharing service Picasa and also the core of its controversial Google Earth mapping service. It also has nurtured some homegrown consumer favourites that include social networking site, Orkut and e-mail service Gmail. Read the rest of this entry »