look and feel

More Change at Microsoft's Bing, as It Goes Deep Into Entertainment

Kara Swisher in News on June 22, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Microsoft is rolling out a new series of updates to its Bing search service, including a deep dive into a media-rich entertainment vertical. The software company has been pushing hard in the search arena, trying to gain market share from the dominant Google and the No. 2 player, Yahoo.

Yahoo Homepages Over the Last 15 Years: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Really Ugly)

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2009 at 5:59 pm PT

Tomorrow, Yahoo will officially unveil the latest redesign of its homepage, an almost complete rejiggering of the look and feel of one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet. The latest launch comes after about a half-dozen redesigns of the homepage since Yahoo was founded, the last one in 2006. BoomTown thought it might be instructive to take a look at what has come before it, seeing how the Yahoo front page has evolved since 1994.

RIM Product Line More FrankenBerry Than CrackBerry

John Paczkowski in News on June 26, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

With the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS in stores and the myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Google Android phone, headed to market, is Research in Motion’s product lineup beginning to look a bit dated? Which leads to another question: Has RIM’s success made it too complacent? GC Research analyst Tero Kuittinen believes it has.