YouTube celebrates '100th birthday'

YouTube has kicked off April Fool festivities with a celebration of its “100th birthday” - a journey into what YouTube might have looked like in 1911, if YouTube or the Internet existed back then, says Mashable.

The video platform is going all out; not only has it released a promotional video depicting the “top five viral pictures of 1911”, it has also updated the logo and inserted a classic 1911 button on every video.

Clicking it will transform any YouTube clip into an old-school motion picture, complete with a grainy yellowish skin and an accompanying early 20th Century piano soundtrack to match.

Microsoft is to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission, reports the BBC.

The software maker claims Google used its dominant position in the search market to restrict the growth of Microsoft services.

It cites a number of practices, including Google limiting the ability of Microsoft Bing to index Web content. Google said it was not surprised by the move and would happily explain itself.

Taiwan's Acer has pledged to meet new challenges in the slowing PC market, after it replaced its top executive as sales fall amid competition from tablets and other devices, states the Associated Press.

Stan Shih, Acer's founder and a board member, acknowledged smartphones and tablet computers such as Apple's iPad have brought “a far greater impact on the PC industry than we had anticipated”.

Acer yesterday said its CEO Gianfranco Lanci had resigned over differences with board members about the company's future.

Only a quarter of large enterprises have been won over by tablet PCs, according to recent research, with the remaining having no plans to introduce touch-screen tablet PCs into the workplace, notes Computing.co.uk.

According to research firm Forrester's annual Forrsights Hardware Survey, just 26% of firms with 1 000 employees or more have deployed or are planning to deploy touch-screen tablet PCs.

Of that 26%, just 4% said they had already rolled out the devices. Meanwhile, just 18% of businesses with under 1 000 employees have introduced, or plan to introduce, tablets into the workplace.