Microsoft has finally taken its well-known Office software to the Internet in a strike against Google's popular and free Google Docs.The move signals an increasing shift away from traditional offline computing to a computing experienced increasingly plugged into and reliant on the the internet. It also officially signals the start of a new front in the Microsoft-Google battle.Last year, Google made a play for the operating system market, a strike at the very heart of Microsoft. Google had announced that ...

In the latest of a long series of blows to Myspace, The Wall Street Journal reported that News Corp is on the verge of selling the once dominant social network in a deal that could include the laying off more than half of the troubled company's staff.The newspaper, citing a "person familiar with the matter," reported that there were two leading bidders for Myspace -- the digital ad-targeting firm Specific Media and private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.The ...

This week I take a look at Money IQ, a personal finance app that has quickly taken my app world by storm and become an essential part of my daily life.A couple weeks back I reviewed Moneybook, another personal finance app that I loved for its simplicity and beautiful design. You’ll recall though that I did have one or two issues with the app, one being the fact that it didn’t allow you to create your own categories (which has ...

The Indian subsidiary of online deals giant Groupon has accidentally published email addresses and passwords of its 300,00-strong subscriber database, reports and the company said.Daniel Grzelak, founder of the Internet security website shouldichangemypassword.com, found the security breach of sosasta.com while running a Google search for publicly available databases.The relative ease with which Grzelak was able to access the database is the most concerning aspect of this development. The approach he took is far removed from that of the dedicated hackers ...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced on Tuesday that he was scaling back his involvement in the micro-blogging company to concentrate on a new venture.The 37 year old said in a post on his personal blog that he was relaunching The Obvious Corporation, the company which spawned Twitter, with fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and a former Google colleague, Jason Goldman."Our plan is to develop new projects and work on solving big problems aligned along a simple mission statement: The Obvious ...

It's not easy to run an online content business in an age where everyone is a publisher. Everyone is doing it and there's never been competition in the content business like this before. If we cut through the hyperbole and the evangelism, we're left with the simple fact that online advertising, while promising, is not making the same bucks as its traditional media counterparts. The model is still evolving and can be confusing at times. So what is the future ...

Twitter’s recent valuation of US$8.9-billion is of little surprise to those who’ve benefitted from the microblog’s capacity to gain brand recognition.Companies across the world are using it, with the recent example of KLM being a case in point. The international airline focused on who was tweeting the company's brand while waiting for flight departures. Lucky passengers received a gift-pack suited to their destination when their posts were spotted by the airline. As passengers checked in at KLM’s Foursquare ...

Opera Software released the newest update to its desktop web browser, Opera 11.50, which is now available for the first time in Swahili and Zulu.The browser supports more than 50 languages in total, with the update adding four new languages, also including Bengali and Punjabi. Codenamed "Swordfish", Opera 11.50 features improvements to its Speed Dial launch page, synchronization and design. You can download Opera 11.50 here.In the latest version of Opera, you can get social media feeds; immediate ...

Social media has practically been used in every way known to man. It is not surprising, therefore, that the next phase in social media usage lies in businesses' corporate social responsibility portfolios.Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of self-regulation incorporated into a company's business model. The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the ...

Sony chairman and president Howard Stringer on Tuesday apologised to shareholders and customers over a massive data leak, which helped push its share price to a two-year low this month."In April, we faced a serious challenge in the form of a cyber attack launched against the PlayStation Network, Qriocity and the network systems of Sony Online Entertainment," Stringer said at a meeting in Tokyo attended by about 5 900 shareholders."We are sorry for any concern and inconvenience that the incidents ...