Yesterday's rollout of Yahoo's new Panama search advertising ranking system has been both praised and criticized by advertisers (see Panama is LIVE! - for some and Yahoo's Panama: The Switch Is Flipped on The New Ad System).

Under pressure to loosen restrictions on copyright protection technology, Apple's CEO turns the tables and puts the onus on the music biz 。

The BBC reports that YouTube founder Chad Hurley is confirming that the Google-owned company will begin sharing advertising revenues with the people who upload videos to its site: "The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, [Hurley] said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film." Hurley says the plan is intended to "reward creativity."

Apple's name change from Apple Computer to Apple on January 9 highlights the company's new reality: CEO Steve Jobs' strategy today revolves around converged consumer devices much more than around personal computers.

The web changed my life. I can't live without wikipedia or Google. But ultimately, I'm disappointed. Almost every day, the web lets me down.

The launch of a new version of Microsoft Windows, called Vista, is not quite the event it used to be. Has the software giant reached the pinnacle of its power?

There is a lot about the way Microsoft has run its Internet business that Steve Berkowitz wants to change.

I spoke last week with Debra Chrapaty, the VP of Operations for Windows Live, to explore one of the big ideas I have about Web 2.0, namely that once we move to software as a service, everything we thought we knew about competitive advantage has to be rethought.

Windows Vista is finally here, a shadow of what it was once supposed to be, but here nonetheless, and now the pundits are holding forth on whether or not Microsoft's new operating system will succeed.

The internet bubble of the 1990s may have been investor folly but it heralded a new era, the impact of which we are only just beginning to understand.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been coy in discussing his company's ambition to create an online alternative to Microsoft Office.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - One of the two new heads of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Office software team downplayed the threat from Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, saying they are unlikely to appeal to corporate customers.

Microsoft's shameless imitation of the iPod is just one of many strategic shifts.

Microsoft has always had to anticipate changes in the software business and seize the opportunity to lead.

It is an exciting time, as we’re at the beginning of the biggest product cycle in the company’s history. In a week we ship new versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server and BizTalk Server. Later this month we ship Xbox 360. Next year we have a double barreled release of our two largest products with Windows Vista and Office “12”. It’s a great time for customers, our partners, and for those at Microsoft who have put so much of themselves into these products.

A couple of days ago, I reread Ray Ozzie's famous memo to top Microsoft's top executives and engineers on "the internet services disruption," as well as Bill Gates's cover note.

Does Nintendo's radical new strategy represent the future of gaming?

He seeks out songs by musicians “young enough to be grandchildren of the Beatles” and prefers artists “off the radar of anyone whose name is inked on a mortgage.” His example of mortification is to be caught with Michael McDonald in your iPod library.

With iPod’s fifth birthday around the corner, Steve Jobs discusses the MP3 player’s design, the cool factor and the impact on how we listen to music.

Never try to introduce the same product twice. That was the lesson from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May. A year earlier, at E3 2005 in Los Angeles, Sony had wowed the videogame industry with demonstrations of the upcoming PlayStation 3's unprecedented graphical muscle.