Despite the threat of Google Chrome OS as another competitive front versus Apple, Google CEO Eric Schmidt refuses to step down from Apple's board of directors.

Microsoft Bing increased its U.S. search engine market share by 0.4 percent during its first month of release

Google enjoys a small rebound in the second quarter, posting a profit of $1.48 billion (£907m) on $4.66 per share, a 19 percent growth over the second quarter of 2008

Office 2010 will be available for free in the cloud, through Microsoft's Windows Live: analysts expect it to beat Google Docs

Chrome OS may give Eric Schmidt reason to leave Apple's board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor

Microsoft's ace in the hole in its upcoming battle against Google Chrome OS, the search giant's new browser-based operating system, could be a browser-OS hybrid project code-named Gazelle

Orange has confirmed it will be the exclusive UK provider of Toshiba's iPhone-rival, the TG01 smartphone featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor