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Microsoft's Bill Gates will detail today how the company is adding search capabilities in its enterprise software, emphasizing how employees waste time trying to find information. Gates is scheduled to speak at a conference for corporate executives in Redmond, Washington. Among his company's pending offerings is a new search tool in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that will peer deep into workers' computers, building profiles of what it finds so other employees can find out what those employees know. Microsoft's emphasis on the search capabilities comes in response to strong competition from Google, which has become the market leader for search on the Internet. Google is increasingly courting enterprise customers, offering hardware and software search products tailored to their needs. Product Plans Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, an upgrade of software used to build Web portals and share documents, will be released later this year to corporate users with Microso...

SCEA official images of the 2005 PS3 and the 2006 PS3. It's changed quite a bit since last E3. read more  |  digg story

Google and handset producer Nokia are teaming up to release an updated version of Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet, which will enable consumers to conduct voice conversations or send instant messages while surfing the Web, The Wall Street Journal reports. read more  |  digg story

Is it a UMPC? Is it a PDA? What is it??? You be the judge, but we can tell you it's a portable computing device with Bluetooth, WiFi, and a slide-out keyboard. read more  |  digg story

1. Google query syntax underwent some subtle changes over the years. Not too long ago, you couldn't enter more than 10 words into the Google search box. Or to be more precisely, you *could*, but subsequent words were ignored. I bet the Google founders were thinking "10 words ought to be enough for everyone," and mostly there were right – but for some advanced uses, especially with the Google Search API, a little more is helpful. Then, a while ago, Google increased the words limit to 32 words. This is probably OK for a few more years! Another change is that Google ignores stop words nowadays. Stop words in search engines are words like "the" or "a" which are too tiny or common to be useful additions to most searches. However, Google is now accepting them as semi-normal words (one remaining difference being that they're not highlighted, or linked to the dictionary). This means in Google.com, you get different results when search for [the tale of a ...

For years, MTV Networks Inc. sat on the sidelines while Apple Computer Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and others racked up sales of music downloads. Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday. read more  |  digg story