Google will start charging small businesses to use its Google Apps productivity suite as the company mines previously free services for new revenue streams.

Businesses with 10 or fewer employees will now be charged $50 a year -- the same rate paid by larger businesses to use the Web-based tools, which include e-mail, word processor, spreadsheet and presentation graphics tools.

The move will allow the Web giant to focus on the quality of the business user's experience, Google explained today in a company blog post.

Microsoft has created an advert and a website as lures for people who used to think that Internet Explorer (IE) "sucks" but now think it "sucks...less".

Marketing is a funny thing. It pushes envelopes, thinks outside of imaginary boxes, runs things up flagpoles and makes viral videos. Microsoft's marketing is no different, and you can rely on it to try out some wheeze or other once or twice a year.

The "Browser you loved to hate" campaign is a pretty good idea. Take a web browser that not many people have anything good thing to say about, massage it a little and leave the watcher with an impression like, "meh, maybe it is sort of alright then...." Or something.

Gmail just added a new feature that lets you "attach" files to messages by selecting them from Google Drive, giving you much more leeway in how much you can send.

Drive allows you to send files up to 10GB in size, which is much larger than you can send with traditional attachments.

A privacy notice is finding its way onto many Facebook profiles, as it supposedly offers protection from Facebook's claim to the copyright of users' individual posts. It's unofficial, doesn't actually do anything, and you should not post it if it crosses your path. Here's what the fake notice looks line:

In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, graphics, comics, paintings, photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times!