CIO Insight Staff

Google said on Monday it is taking the next step to make its Web-based software useful in the real world of spotty Internet access by allowing users to edit word processing documents offline. The world’s top Internet company said it will begin over the next several weeks to allow users of its Google Docs word […]

Microsoft sees no reason to increase its bid for Yahoo, two months after it made a $44.6 billion offer to buy the Internet company, people familiar with Microsoft’s plans said on Monday. "Why would Microsoft bid against themselves? The company sees no reason to bid against itself," one of the people said. The people requested […]

Microsoft expects that shipments to China of handsets with its software will more than double in the next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country launches 3G wireless services. About 2 million mobile devices installed with Microsoft operating systems were shipped to China in the last year, about 10 […]

The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft and the United States nation brand are those considered most in need of a remake, a survey showed on Monday. The poll by online magazine brandchannel.com asked its readers to identify the brands with the greatest impact on their lives, and say […]

Think your family going green won’t make a difference? Wrong, says a U.S. study released on Thursday that shows one household ditching paper statements for Web transactions would save 24 square feet of forest a year. The PayItGreen Alliance said it believed this was the first detailed study commissioned to determine the impact of one […]

Google showed modest growth during February in a closely watched report released on Wednesday on how search sites like Google get paid by advertisers, and its shares fell 3.2 percent. Web measurement firm comScore Inc issued a monthly report on "paid clicks" — a key measure of how Web searchers are converted into ad viewers […]

Teenagers seem to know that loud music can damage their hearing, yet most see no reason to lower the volume on their iPods, a small study suggests. In focus-group discussions with students at two high schools in the Netherlands, researchers found that the teens were generally aware that blasting an MP3 player could harm their […]

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday unveiled new microprocessors for the desktop personal computer market, in a move that could sharpen its competitive edge against rival Intel. Among the chips in AMD’s Phenom family of processors is one that has three cores, or electronics brains, compared with the two or four most generally available. AMD said that […]

Yahoo said on Tuesday it is backing a program by rival Google to make software work fluidly across different social networks, and will create a joint foundation to promote the effort. The normally fierce competitors are working together in the OpenSocial network, which Google formed in November to lure Web software developers and other social […]

Passengers on UK-registered aircraft could soon be able to use their mobile phones to make calls and send text messages, the telecommunications regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday.   Ofcom, which had been examining the proposals since last year, said the plans would be subject to approval by the relevant UK and European aviation bodies.   The […]

Motorola said on Wednesday it would split into two publicly traded entities to separate its loss-making handset division from its other businesses, sending its shares up about 5 percent. The move, which comes amid an intensifying proxy battle against activist investor Carl Icahn ahead of a May 5 annual meeting, could be a prelude for […]