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Google's grand ambition

News Joe Kraus, a founder of the Excite.com portal that merged with Internet service provider @Home before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001, agreed that Google executives are probably thinking big, although he acknowledged he "doesn't have the...

22 September 2005, 10:08

Lycos sports 'for sale' sign

News The portal wars that marked the mid-90s ended with Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft's MSN as the victors. Walt Disney shut down Infoseek after spending billions of dollars trying to build out its own Go.com Web portal.

28 April 2004, 8:00

Microsoft reveals Office 2007 details

News Many of the new capabilities will be included in SharePoint Portal Server, which has been expanded from a tool for handling portals to one that also handles other Office tasks, including forms management, spreadsheet hosting and content rights...

16 February 2006, 10:30

Microsoft and Google duke it out for China

News Sina is the largest portal site in China and has a deal with Yahoo for an online auction house. Yahoo China president Zhou Hongyi resigned last month for personal reasons, leaving the future of the portal's unit in question.

22 July 2005, 9:25

News Corp in talks to buy unnamed search engine

News News Corp.is in talks to buy a stake in an unnamed search engine as part of its plan to create a major portal and expand on the Internet, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said this week. The company is embarking on a major expansion on the Internet...

15 August 2005, 9:34

Carphone Warehouse snaps up AOL UK

News The consultants concluded that the company should abandon being an Internet service provider (ISP) in the UK to concentrate on its portal services, which are benefiting from the online advertising boom.

12 October 2006, 7:02

Microsoft details enhancements to Great Plains 8.0

News Version 8.0 of Great Plains will include a revamped interface that mimics Microsoft Office together with new links to Office applications, as well as support for analytic accounting across the world, including North America, and an enhanced...

23 April 2004, 17:10

Yahoo ups free email storage limit

News Web portal Yahoo will begin offering "virtually unlimited storage" for its paid email customers and will upgrade free users to 100MB, an executive said on Thursday. The upgrade is part of an overall enhancement for Yahoo Mail that will launch this...

14 May 2004, 8:35

Lycos follows suit with one-gigabyte storage

News European Web portal giant Lycos has followed Google and Yahoo into the race to provide email users with massive amounts of storage, and claims to be beating these rivals already. Google caused considerable excitement last month when it announced...

18 May 2004, 9:55

MSN buys into Net-phone future

News The move comes as all the major portal and IM companies are moving more heavily into Internet calling. Microsoft plans to announce this week that it has purchased a small Internet calling start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the...

31 August 2005, 8:52

Yahoo-eBay join forces against Google

News The two companies unveiled a partnership on Thursday morning that could bring more advertising revenue to Yahoo, whose market share losses to Google brought angry words from shareholders at the portal giant's annual stockholder meeting later in...

26 May 2006, 10:12

Yahoo hooks up with digital TV

News Starting today, consumers will be able to schedule recordings on their TiVo box from a special Yahoo portal. In a move that further blurs the lines of television and the Internet, Yahoo and TiVo have partnered to schedule downloads to TiVo boxes...

7 November 2005, 9:53

Microsoft releases Great Plains update

News The new version, with about 120 enhancements, also works with Microsoft's Business Solutions Business Portal 2.5 and Office 2003. Microsoft released on Monday a new version of its accounting software for medium-sized companies.

22 June 2004, 7:55

Stop reading this headline and get back to work

News Those are among the conclusions of a US study on wasted time at work released on Monday by compensation specialist Salary.com and Web portal AOL. Traipsing around the Internet is the most popular form of loafing on the job.

12 July 2005, 10:06

Birmingham inks deal for blanket Wi-Fi

News Consumers will be able to access info from Birmingham City Council via the network's portal, while those looking for a more traditional Web experience can buy access from BT Openzone. Birmingham is the latest city to get blanket Wi-Fi, beginning in...

17 November 2006, 9:25

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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