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Microsoft has pipped Google, Facebook & Cisco at the post to buyout Skype for $8.5 billion, the largest acquisition ever by Microsoft. The purchase was announced by chief executive Steve Ballmer earlier in the week saying that “Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world… Together we will

According to a Reuters report today, Skype is entertaining buyout offers from both Google and Facebook in what would surely be one of the biggest tech deals of recent history. Skype is reportedly talking to Facebook about a possible deal. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been involved in internal discussions about buying Skype, while Facebook

Last week a story broke about Google catching out Bing stealing it’s search results by planting results for fake words like “Tarsorrhaphy” & “Hiybbprqag” that suddenly turned up in Bing

Google has once again released its ‘Zeitgeist’ results for 2010, detailing the most popular search terms as they relate to people & events this year across a number of categories. Some of the results are as you’d expect with Justin Beiber, Katy Perry dominating most of the attention with their contributions to mankind. Whilst Apple

While other established browsers continue to become more & more bloated, Google’s Chrome browser is trimming the fat and constantly improving with loads of time-saving features and loads of useful new extensions being released on a daily basis. </bias> The following Chrome Help link is one of the most useful places to start, listing all

Google is rolling out a new service called “Google Buzz”, aimed at the social networking and micro-blogging crowd ala Facebook & Twitter. Apparently, it’s another social networking tool offering a new way to share updates, photos, videos and start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s not available to all Gmail users yet, but

Over the last 72 hours you may have heard numerous victory cries from long suffering web designers & developers. At the end of January, Google joined the long growing list of companies ceasing support for older browsers such as IE6 by officially announced that they were phasing out their support of the browser,

A new post has appeared on the official Google Blog, detailing security attacks on their infrastructure originating from China: Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in

New statistics from comScore Networks research shows Microsoft’s Bing has risen to 10.3% of the U.S. search market in November, it’s highest result so far. However, it appears the market share is being taken from Microsoft’s partner-in-waiting, Yahoo and not search leader Google’s whos market share rose over November. Under an agreement struck earlier this

Continuing their hot-streak of announcements and free service releases & updates of late, Google has now introduced “Google Public DNS”, a new experimental public DNS resolver promising a host of improvements to browsing speed and performance and both validity and security. The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the

When you signup for an AUSWEB hosting plan, the first thing most customers do is upload their website – replacing the default New AUSWEB Customer index.html file for new accounts. A common question we receive, is ‘how can I create a simple landing page for my website?’. Usually from customers who are using their domain

Google has just released their 2009 Search Trend results, cataloguing the people, events and memories that made up this year. The clear winner as you might be able to guess was the king of pop Michael Jackson, who’s search results spiked massively after the singer’s death and continue to rank highly. For the full story

As part of Google’s ever-growing range of tools for improving your website and businesses, Australian users can now visit the Google Local Business Centre to create a listing to help customers find your business on Google and Google Maps. Use the power of Google’s data to learn where your customers come from and what they

Google has thrown another curveball into the mix ahead of next years planned release of Chrome OS, officially releasing details on the OS as well as Open Sourcing the project

One of the biggest news stories floating around today have been stirred by the latest comments from Rupert Murdoch. In a recent interview Murdoch touched on possible moves his News Corporation empire may take towards their proposed online profit model, such as pursuing other news outlets like the BBC for any breaches of copyright and

With all the myths out there surrounding Search Engine Optimization, Google’s Webmaster tools is definitely the first stop any serious web admin should consider for managing their websites and SEO. Google has just released a comprehensive “Google for Webmasters” presentation which aims to give you a complete and better understanding of SEO, from what is

As its custom-built file system strains under the weight of an online empire it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement. Apparently, this overhaul of the Google File System is already under test as part of the “Caffeine” infrastructure the company announced earlier this week. In an interview with the Association for

Below is an interesting little flash based chart of the most popular websites for Australian internet users, from 2001 to the end of 2008, divided into various categories; commercial, government, social, IT, media etc. There are a few options to play around with on the chart’s display, but the main point of interest is watching

Just as Microsoft was gaining ground with press and reception for their Bing search engine, various pro-Microsoft skewed search results are being uncovered. Not really a surprising move by Microsoft, and given their longtime feud with Apple and the recent cut-throat laptop wars, Microsoft appear to be censoring  Bing’s search results. Searching for most phrases

Microsoft announced yesterday that their Bing search engine arm would partner with Yahoo! creating a joint strike force against the almighty Google in the online search and advertising arena. Combined they will total 30% of the search market, which is still less than half of Google’s market share, but when you can’t beat them alone