Today is Bill Gates' last day in the office as a regular employee of the company he co-founded in 1975. But as non-executive chairman and someone who is deeply married to Microsoft, Gates is not disappearing from the company.

Microsoft's Bill Gates, in an NBC interview with Tom Brokaw, said a deal with Yahoo is unlikely, according to a CNBC report Friday.

With GPS becoming more common in people's everyday lives, new products are making use of the information gleaned from GPS to provide real-time tracking applications for cars, people, pets, and corporate assets.

Nokia has announced that it is taking up several initiatives as part of its strategy to address India's rural market, which is seen as the next big opportunity for mobile service providers and handset makers.

Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday as part of a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution, the company said.

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has made plans to acquire MobiComp, a mobile-data company founded in 2000.

The Economist's Ludwig Siegele opens up one of the most important questions for the next 10 years of software: What happens to Microsoft after Bill Gates leaves?

On Wednesday, Yahoo issued a letter to shareholders defending its pact with Google as compared to a search deal with Microsoft.

LimitNone, a small software-development company, is seeking nearly $1bn (£508m) in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the company and misappropriating its trade secrets for the Google Apps online service.

Mobile operator Blyk will launch its ad-supported free phone service in Germany, Spain and Belgium next year, it said Wednesday. The company offers U.K. subscribers free telephony and messaging (up to a point) in exchange for receiving ads on their phone.

Google, Yahoo and Baidu have found themselves atop Asia's search rankings, with Korean Internet users looking for information most often, a comScore survey released Tuesday said.

LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service.

The first devices using Symbian Foundation open-source code for mobile devices will become available in 2010, Nokia has said.

It's way too early to declare the battle between Microsoft and arch-rival Alcatel-Lucent over. Last week, a judge upheld a big jury decision against Microsoft and tacked on some interest. That just made the defendant a little angrier.

The judge presiding over Microsoft's antitrust case said on Tuesday that the company needs to make available the details of how its different programs work together, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report.

With the planned acquisition of mobile software maker Symbian, Nokia has decided to grabbed its future and run with it.

Did he, or didn't he? Apparently, he didn't.

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.

T-Mobile has announced a cut of 80 percent in its European data-roaming charges, in time for the 1 July deadline imposed on operators by the European Commission.

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has bought Navic Networks, a company that helps television advertisers manage their ad campaigns.

The departure of Microsoft's founder and iconic leader Bill Gates comes at a pivotal time in the company's history as it struggles to compete with Google, the architect of the new Web economy and perhaps the company's most formidable foe ever.

Voluntarily or not, it looks like Yahoo will be getting a lot less top-heavy.

The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, acheiving a final tally of 8,290,545 downloads of the new browser, and reaching a market share that peaked at over six percent.

China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Thursday denied press reports that it was investigating or planned to investigate Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior, saying the office doesn't even handle such cases.

Yahoo's CEO Jerry Yang made the rounds on Capital Hill on Wednesday, in an effort to dispel antitrust concerns surrounding its search advertising deal with Google.

Having failed to buy all of Yahoo, or even its search business, Microsoft is now looking to take an even more piecemeal approach--hire its workers.

Business-networking site LinkedIn announced on Tuesday evening that it had netted $53 million in a Series D funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. CEO Dan Nye wrote in a blog post that this values the company at a smidgen more than $1 billion.

Microsoft said late Tuesday that it has bought Navic Networks, a company that helps television advertisers manage their ad campaigns.

When Glam Media raised $84.6 million in February, international expansion was on its radar, and now we're seeing the results: the women's-focused ad network announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Monetise, a London-based digital-ad sales start-up.

Microsoft is pinning its hopes on European researchers to help it shake up the search and advertising marketplace. It plans to open a search technology center somewhere in Europe by the middle of next year.

Yahoo pushed to solidify its position in mobile advertising and search Tuesday with a series of new deals in eight Asian countries and territories.

Microsoft may keep the software and hosted architecture built by Danger to enhance its own mobile offerings

GUT WRENCHING news for Yahoo shareholders. Microsoft has revealed how much it had offered its board before walking away from trying another deal with the petulant company.

Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled two new mobile phones made with plastic made from corn as it expands initiatives aimed at being more nature-friendly.

Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.

Joe Nocera gives Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang a very public drubbing in his New York Times column, accusing him of shirking his fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders.

Motorola, the number-three mobile-phone maker, said Friday that it would roughly halve the size of its research labs to about 300 people as it plans to halt some projects and move at least 180 people to other units.

The first commercial Ethernet switch has been successfully deployed in space aboard the Columbus module research laboratory.

Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iPhone 3G at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, with prices starting at $199 (about £100) for the 8GB storage model.

With the Microsoft/Yahoo/Google triangle taking a new shape as Microsoft exited and Yahoo and Google connected, the analysts covering tech industry sports are weighing in with their opinions.

Media companies should see Google not as an enemy but as an ally trying to make advertising work on the internet, chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.

With Yahoo now off having fun with Google, Microsoft is trying to convince its troops that the single life ain't so bad.

There have been a lot of stories since the Google-Yahoo deal was announced Thursday saying that Microsoft would be mounting a massive campaign to block the deal. But until now, I haven't seen Microsoft itself saying much about the antitrust implications of the actual deal.

Microsoft said in its statement Thursday that it was offering Yahoo a deal worth even more than its original $33 a share offer for the whole company. That appears to be the case, according to details confirmed by those familiar with the offer.

Late Thursday afternoon, the news came from Google that it will indeed become a full-time provider of AdSense advertising for Yahoo's search pages, and the two companies' IM protocols will become interoperable.

eBay has pulled the plug on Media Marketplace, a controversial pilot program designed to buy and sell radio and TV advertising on the Internet. The Internet auction house confirmed the closure of the program after one year with the brief message: "We have ended our pilot program in this market."

If you think there's something a little odd about a bunch of corn farmers lobbying Congress to hold hearings on the details of a Google-Yahoo advertising deal, you may be right.

Despite resolution of the standard battle, the high-def DVD players and discs are posting slow sales.

As the proxy fight heats up, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang issued a letter to employees to address the mechanics of a proxy contest and what to expect.

Yahoo investors got a taste Wednesday of the Yahoo-Carl Icahn dog fight. Next up--the dog-and-pony show.

A conglomerate of privacy groups has called for Google to link to its privacy policy from its homepage, claiming not to do so contravenes Californian law.

Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock fired back at Carl Icahn Wednesday evening, accusing the investor of having no comprehension of the facts and no plan for the company besides selling it to Microsoft.

Shashi Seth, the executive leading the effort to make money from video-sharing site YouTube, has left Google, the company confirmed Thursday.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Reality check: half of the social media start-ups at Tuesday's Under the Radar Conference won't exist next year.

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay is betting that Google and Amazon.com will loom as the two giants of Internet. According to Lindsay's report, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning," cited by Reuters, "Both Google and Amazon.com are still racking up annual growth rates in the 30-40 percent range, with only a relatively modest slowdown in sight."

Improvements in processing speeds, storage space and wireless broadband will drive a new revolution in information technology, but software makers face several challenges in their efforts to keep up, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.

Yahoo announced on Tuesday that it will hold its annual shareholders meeting on 1 August, setting the stage for a contentious proxy battle with billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn.

BT announced on Monday that it had completed the acquisition of Wire One Holdings, a specialist US videoconferencing company, for an undisclosed amount.

The London Borough of Newham is adopting the Microsoft Vista operating system, but many governmental CIOs refuse to consider the application. Richard Steel, currently president of government technology professionals group the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), is surprised Vista is being ignored.