According to the New York Times, Microsoft approached Google within the last two months to discuss a partnership or the possibility of a takeover. Google, the popular Web search company, recently began holding meetings with bankers in preparation for its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO).
Read MoreApple won the Top Innovation Award for its iTunes Music Store at AlwaysOn 2003: The Innovation Summit, which was held July 15-17 at Stanford University. Google was named the Company of the Year and the Consumer Technology Company of the Year at the event. “AO editors compiled the list with assistance from KPMG’s emerging business practice, KPMG 1Start,” notes the publication.
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The Google Toolbar For Mac Petition
Gopple.org launched a petition to put some pressure on Google and Apple to
build a mac compatible google toolbar built into Apple’s Safari Browser for
MacOSX.
O’Reilly has announced the release of the “Google Pocket Guide” (US$9.95), which helps daily Google users learn the fundamentals of a Google search. “This includes making the most of its special syntaxes, hidden options, and powerful combinations; consulting the Google dictionary; looking up individuals and businesses in the Google phonebook; finding related web sites and pages; and restricting or expanding a Google search by subject, web site, domain, time, title, etc.”
Read MoreO’Reilly today announced the release of “Google Hacks,” authored by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. The US$24.95 book is “a unique collection of one hundred tips and tools gathered from expert users of Google, as well as developers who are excited about Google’s new API. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to. Each hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save hours of searching for the right answers.
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