Talk about an iron grip on search. To research this column comparing Google’s venerable search engine with Microsoft’s upstart Bing, I Googled “Bing versus Google.” It didn’t even occur to me to Bing the search. In a nutshell, that’s Microsoft’s problem. The...

Google has been sued again by a company mad over the use of its trademarks as keywords, but this one comes with a twist. Ascentive , the company behind those incessant “Finally Fast!” PC support ads , became the latest Google advertiser to sue the company for allowing advertisers to purchase...

Rohnert Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 - Red Condor, the award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and...

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today...

Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout — with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year. Called Comcast High-Speed 2go, the...

People may not camp out on the street to get a copy of Windows 7, but the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system is ringing up pre-orders. Amazon.com is offering discounts of 50 percent or more on pre-orders of Windows 7, with limits of three copies per customer on the Home Premium...

Dell engineers are developing a pocket-sized, Internet-connected device that will use the Google-backed Android mobile operating system, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the company’s plans,” said two people who have seen prototypes described...

A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser’s success opened the door for a host of its other competitors. Even as Internet Explorer’s market share has slipped–down a dramatic 8 percentage points to 65.5 percent in about the...

Digitalsmiths , the video distribution and analysis platform that powers TheWB.com , TMZ , and a number of other popular sites, is rolling out a new product suite today dubbed VideoSense 2.0. The new suite includes a number of features that will make it more appealing to content owners looking to distribute...

CNET News Poll Inauspicious apps Which app will Google ban from the Android Marketplace first? Application that redirects Google searches to Bing Browser plug-in that highlights the word “… The rest is here: Friday Poll: Which Android app will Google ban first?

A lot of us here at TechCrunch quite like Bing , Microsoft’s new search, sorry, discovery, no sorry, decision engine . For a number of queries it seems to provide better results than Google. But that doesn’t mean the public will start using it. And this video by College Humor I think lays...

For the last few weeks it hasn’t been unusual to see AT&T among Twitter’s trending topics — following its disappointing performance at WWDC and the activation issues with the iPhone last week, the carrier hasn’t exactly been garnering positive reactions from its legions...