Google’s Android Coming To Netbooks Via Acer

Jun 2, 2009 at 9:37am ET by Barry Schwartz

Acer to Produce Netbook Using Google Operating System from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google's Android operating system, used on Google Phones, will be shipped on Acer's Netbooks. The new low-cost computers will ship in the third quarter of this year. This does not mean Acer will stop shipping computers with Windows, it just gives Acer an alternative low-cost option for their Netbooks. We knew this was coming when Greg wrote, Report: Android OS Coming To Netbooks. There are also rumors that Dell's netbooks will run Android in the future. [...]

Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Other, Microsoft: Other

Microsoft Shutting Down QnA, Questions & Answers Site

May 12, 2009 at 10:09am ET by Barry Schwartz

LiveSide reports Microsoft has decided to close down the Question and Answer portal, MSN QnA as of May 21st. Microsoft said: At this time, we are closing the QnA site, but the experience of running QnA and gathering all of the great feedback you’ve shared with us will certainly influence future product direction. QnA initially launched as a beta in August 2006 and we even rated it fairly well in December 2006. QnA had a major upgrade about a year ago today. Google had their own Questions and Answers which they closed down in 2006. Yahoo Answers is still very dominate in this a [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Other, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines

Microsoft Aiming For ‘More Disruption’ In Search

May 7, 2009 at 10:06am ET by Greg Sterling

Next month Microsoft will relaunch its search engine or launch its new search engine (currently dubbed Kumo/Kiev) together with a new marketing campaign to promote it. The question on everyone's minds is: will it change anything? Despite a range of efforts so far Redmond has not been able to boost its market share in search. Speaking yesterday at Stanford University, where he attended business school, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: "We are going to have to be more disruptive" in search. Cashback is part of that equation for Microsoft -- as in disruption of the traditional advertising [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Other

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