So now we know that Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, plans to retire within the next year.

LOTS of parents lock away the alcoholic drinks at home so their kids can’t get at them.

Microsoft has introduced a “pop-up” warning on its Bing search engine that tells users in the UK that they are searching for illegal child abuse images.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has urged the Government to consider forcing internet service providers (ISP) to block access by young people to online pornography.

Social media behemoth Facebook has announced it is creating a new search engine for content uploaded by its users.

Microsoft is absorbing a $6.2bn (€4.9bn) charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history fell flat.

Treyvaud’s in Killarney provides rare good value in a town where some premises are still leaning towards prices that were more fitting in the Celtic Tiger era.

The scenery of Kerry is still the big draw for tourists and more than a third of all visitors are now partaking in hiking and cross-country walks.

A criminal investigation into mortgage swindlers has expanded beyond deceptive advertising on Google’s internet search engine to root out con artists who were luring their victims on Bing and Yahoo too.

Dizzee Rascal won't release his new album until he is completely satisfied with it.

Microsoft is filing an anti-competition complaint against Google with the European Commission.

The BP rig disaster managed to topple Michael Jackson from the top spot on this year’s Yahoo list of most popular internet search requests.

ONLINE security experts have warned about the serious risks associated with creating a “digital footprint” which allows people who place too much personal information online to become targets for cyber criminals.

IT’S the word of the century so far. Just when the search engine launched back in 1998 became a verb — “to google” — no one quite knows, but many of us google something, anything, dozens of times a day.

The European Commission has approved a tie up between Microsoft and Yahoo, as the software giant seeks to narrow the gap between its Bing search engine and global leader Google.

Details of a Microsoft-Yahoo partnership to challenge Google’s dominance of online advertising are expected to be announced today.