New York -- In an attempt to keep pace with the advancing web frontier, and to demonstrate its seriousness about the success of its latest Lumia devices, Nokia is jumping in bed with AOL today, touting a “first-of-its-kind” augmented reality feature, which permits users to find movie theaters and showtimes nearby by glancing through theaters, movie posters, and times that appear overlaid on a local map.

AOL might have been facing a few problems of late, but this one would be at the apex of all. A number of sources noted that Brad Garlinghouse, senior AOL executive has left the company. It was noted that Garlinghouse’s departure news came admist a slew of high-profile defections among Aol’s media properties. Garlinghouse is the third top executive to leave in recent months.

New York -- In a surprising turn or events, just four days after personal profile startup About.me, threw its doors open to the public, has been scooped up by web portal AOL on Monday for and undisclosed sum. It will be incorporated with the consumer applications division, led by AOL exec Brad Garlinghouse.

New York -- AOL's MapQuest has finally announced the launch of “360 degree views,” to its maps today, a feature that saw the day of light almost two-and-a-half years after Google first added similar images to Google Maps Street view. Currently, it is available for 30 cities and 13 suburbs in the United States, with more to come soon.

Of course, it takes a long time to photograph major intersections across the country and add the data to and online mapping service, but in the meantime, Google has been able to take advantage of that head start, along with other unique features, to surpass MapQuest's once large lead in the mapping market, which is likely to become even more significant as smartphone adoption increases, according to HitWise.

San Francisco -- AOL unit Bebo social network on Wednesday rolled out a new feature called “Social Inbox,” to collect e-mail, social networking, and media recommendations in...

Ask.com lately introduced the beta versions of Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia and Ask.com Nederland, representing the company's most recent expansions in Western Europe. The beta search sites are available in each respective country at www.ask.com and can also be accessed directly from any country at: www.fr.ask.com, www.it.ask.com, and www.nl.ask.com.

Following the launch of Ask U.K. in 2001, Ask Espana in 2005 and Ask Deutschland beta in 2006, the new sites extend Ask.com's reach into the rapidly growing European search market...

America Online announced plans to add search options to its podcast offering by this fall.
AOL has become the latest Internet player to tap into the podcast craze, launching a podcast search service. The firm has secured a deal with search engine technology firm Podscope to add a podcast search capability to the AOL search engine.

A podcast "Search and Discovery" feature will be added via a new version of Winamp Media Player, while another search option will become available as a result of a new deal with TVEyes, AOL said. The new features are likely to become available this fall, according to the company.

New York -- Struggling to keep with the advancement AOL is rolling out a new version of its connected TV app, AOL On Network, is getting a new look and expanding to more platforms with a new video ad-serving capability, the company said over the weekend.

Interestingly, the latest version 2.0 of its connected TV app will now be available on Samsung Electronics Smart TVs, Sony Electronics and Roku over-the-top devices, adding the ability to serve pre-roll ads against 380,000-plus short-form video clips. The app will also be available in a beta phase on TiVo through its premiere DVRs.