Google has placed a video link to its homepage apparently trying to drive more traffic to the service which the search engine is testing for advertising.
 
The new link is part of a reshuffle in which Google dropped links to its search engines for books discussion groups and shopping placing

Lenovo on Tuesday introduced processors from Advanced Micro Devices in its ThinkCentre ASeries family of business desktops.

The ThinkCentre A is available with an Athlon X dualcore processor and AMD Athlon and Sempron processors officials with the Chinese computer maker said. The new PC is designed to run business applications from

Interactive Intelligence has released an upgraded version of its unified communications software Communite which offers unified messaging interactive voice response and realtime communications services.
 
The new release version . offers new functions for speechenabled mobile applications including adding a speechenabled menu for message retrieval status changes and company directory access.

Microsoft Corp. said that it is dropping any plans to update its Virtual PC virtualization software to enable it to work on Apple's new Intelbased Macs.
 
The news came on the heel of the announcement by VMware that it's releasing virtual machine software for the Mac.

At Microsoft the company's

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. on Thursday launched a smalloffice broadband service that does not require local phone service.

Instead the Small Office DSL Plus service uses a line set aside for data service. The benefits include support for Internet phone systems that do not support DSL lines sharing data and telephone service

While Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has lost further market share this year there has been a significant slowdown in the acceptance of its largest competitor the open source Firefox browser according to a white paper released by Janco Associates on Aug. .
 
Internet Explorer has continued to lose market share

Amazon.com Inc. introduced Thursday a search aid aimed at helping customers find what they are looking for through usersubmitted recommendations.

The "Search Suggestions" feature calls for usersubmitted recommendations for connecting products to specific keywords. The feature also has an explanation of why the connection is relevant.

As an example Amazon said the entry

Sprint Nextel not satisfied with just G (thirdgeneration) mobile data will roll out a faster G network using WiMax later this year.

The network which will start to be rolled out by the fourth quarter and reach as many as million people around the U.S. by the end of next year will

Microsoft today officially opened Windows Live Spaces an online community site for creating and sharing messages blogs music and photos among friends. It represents an upgrade of the existing MSN Spaces offering from the software giant that needs to keep pace with the likes of MySpace and Facebook in helping people connect in social

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia needs to improve the quality of its content in the coming year Jimmy Wales the founder of the project said Friday.

"We're going to have a really strong quality initiative" Wales told attendees in his opening keynote address at Wikimania a threeday conference for users of projects run by