Posts from ‘September, 2008’

Microsoft announced that Office Live Workspace (OLW) Beta has reached 1 million users. The online service launched 6 months ago and is meant to serve as an extension to Micrsoft’s Office suite and is also (as some say) a direct competitor to Google’s Docs and Zoho.

Less than 24 hours after Google launched Chrome, the search giant’s foray into the Web browser rumble among IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, everyone is talking about how Web heavyweight Google will do. So here’s a roundup of the most interesting comments about Chrome across the Web.

Nokia announced today a package called “Comes with Music” that allows new handset buyers to download for free an unlimited number of music tracks. Nokia’s latest move comes as a competitor to Apple’s iPhone popularity and its over-the-air music store, the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.

News emerged today that Microsoft is preparing an application marketplace for its Windows Mobile platform, dubbed Skymarket. It seems everybody is keeping an eye on Apple’s marketing strategies these days. With Apple registering 60 million downloaded applications through its AppStore and cashing in over $30 million in sales in just one month, Google has jumped [...]

If you hoped Amazon would release its much anticipated next-generation Kindle 2.0 e-book reader this year, you are out of luck.  Amazon spokesperson Craig Bergman said Amazon will not be introducing a new version of the Kindle in ‘08, adding the debut of the e-book was expected “sometime next year at the earliest.”