Search engine giants Google and football federation Fifa have collaborated on a range of tools that will make it much easier to find the latest World Cup news and scores directly from Google’s Chrome browser.
The brand new Fifa extension provides a live feed of results, news and match statistics, and users will be able to personalise the plug-in to display goal alerts for their favourite team. (more…)

Among the many announcements made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ at WWDC in San Francisco yesterday was the interesting fact that Microsoft’s Bing will become a search option on the iPhone. Microsoft is also expected to announce later in the week that Bing will also become an option on both the Windows and MAC versions of Apple’s Safari browser. (more…)

It has been a rather historic few weeks for Apple as their iPad tablet computer has now sold over two million and now it has been revealed that Apple’s market cap has beaten that of rival Microsoft for the first time in more than 20 years, according to Nasdaq share values at the close of business last week Wednesday. (more…)

As Microsoft continue the process of giving their Hotmail client a makeover they are aiming to reel in some new users as they ready an advertising campaign set to hit London this week. (more…)

Microsoft have announced that they are currently updating their free email service Hotmail, as they attempt to retain and possibly grow their market share over ever present rivals Yahoo! Mail and Google’s Gmail. (more…)

New figures released by ComScore have revealed that Yahoo! and Bing have had a good month of April as both companies have gained some ground on Google in the search engine war. (more…)

Microsoft seem to have come to the realisation that there is no competing with Social Networking giants Facebook and Twitter so they have instead announce a tool that is able to aggregate all of a users social media activity into one place. (more…)

Recent results for internet browser use read well for competitors of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Google and their Chrome browser coming off best. (more…)

Yahoo! have scored a major coup in their battle with Google and Microsoft by landing an exclusive deal with the Premier League to feature highlights of the games online in a deal that will run for customary 3 year period until 2013. (more…)

In response to Google’s recent release of their updated “Google Docs” office suite program, Microsoft and Facebook have joint forces to create a rival online document- sharing service that suspiciously looks a lot like Google’s mew software. (more…)

Microsoft have given a major helping hand to Windows users this week by releasing an all new version of its “fix it” software designed to keep an eye on a PC and repair common faults automatically with no fuss (apparently). (more…)

Google has undergone a major overhaul of its suite of business management applications (Google Apps) in order to provide a rival to Microsoft Office 2010 which is set to be released in the coming months. (more…)

The injection of social networking services into their own products seems to be a common theme amongst the internet’s big players. The integration of these kinds of services has become more and more common this year as ‘the big three’ (Yahoo, Microsoft and Google) all look to reach out to the burgeoning social networking community. (more…)

Two giants of the online world, Microsoft and Facebook, have come together to form a mutually beneficial agreement. The companies have decided to revise their search pact into a global deal. This would mean that the social networking behemoth Facebook will sell its own advertisements and receive more of Bing’s features on its web results. (more…)