Microsoft's Internet Explorer online browser suffered its largest loss of market share in two years, and has been replaced by Mozilla's Firefox as the most popular Web-surfing software in Europe.

As it loses ground against Google on the Net, Microsoft is moving to make sure it won't lag too far behind as Web search moves to mobile phones. The software giant Mar. 14 announced plans to buy Tellme Networks, a leader in voice-recognition services over the phone.

DHI Technologies, Inc., today announced that JS-Sorcerer(TM) helped create a cross-browser JavaScript application for scientists at the UConn Proteomics and Biological Mass Spectrometry (PBMS) Lab.

By Rose, K H; Malaika, S; Schloss, R J Although the Extensible Markup Language (XML) has gained in popularity and has resulted in the creation of powerful software for authoring, transforming, and querying XML-based business data, much information remains in non-XML form.

Software prices could fall as companies develop subscription sales and other alternative ways of marketing applications over smarter Web browsers, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday.