Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, announced today that his for-profit community hosting site Wikia has deepened its investment in developing an open-source Web search engine. Wikia purchased Grub, a company that makes distributed a Web crawling program. Instead of having a single set of computers index the Web — as Google and other search…
After years of technical development and months of regulatory hurdles, the BBC iPlayer was launched to the public at midnight. The iPlayer offers an online, on-demand catch-up service for the bulk of the BBC’s TV output. Initially, it will only be available to users of computers that run Windows XP, but versions for other platforms…
On Thursday, software giant Microsoft threw light on some more details on Windows Vista’s financial performance, adding that it is apparently meeting and surpassing market expectations. Whilst making a presentation at Microsoft’s annual financial analysts meeting at its Redmond headquarters, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft stated that since its worldwide public launch on…
The Metal Gear Solid series has just turned 20, and now that it has come of age you can expect a lot of treats. At the recent 20th anniversary party hosted by the series’ creator Hideo Kojima, details of the upcoming Metal Gear Online game were revealed. More importantly, a Metal Gear Solid 20th Anniversary…
Software giant, Microsoft, is hitting on the online advertising space — big time… According to reports, the company has tied-up both- with popular news site, Digg.com, and with game developer, Electronic arts (EA); for selling adverts online. However what is interesting is in case of the Digg deal, Microsoft has managed to replace previous online…