Redmond, Washington — Back in April of this year we reported that Microsoft has announced that its Bing was bringing its visual mapping feature Streetside, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giants answer to Google’s ‘StreetView’, is now making its way to Europe. And the first Streetside images from the UK are now appearing.

San Francisco — Relentlessly striving to make its services more useful, search engine giant Google Inc. is now reaching for the sky, has added a weather layer to Google Maps, which adds a grid of icons allowing users to see the current temperatures across a city, region or the globe as well as the new […]

The Internet is now taking on the role of a listener, a punching bag, or a counselor, if you will. A new Twitter Page called First Date Hell and its accompanying aggregator – Crapdate.com is giving serial daters an opportunity to talk about their first-date horror stories, with one condition – relate your experience in […]

  Search engines are major external traffic drivers for social media giant Facebook’s Pages – This was the finding of a study conducted by PageLever, an analytics tool. The traffic driven to Facebook pages by search engines amounts to 34% of all external referrals. Interestingly, of all the search engines, Google sent the most volume […]

It has not been even a week for the announcement that was made by HP for discontinuing its webOS, but the software giant, Microsoft has taken up steps to grab this opportunity to lure the webOS developers in the Microsoft world. Microsoft is using various mediums to get the stranded developers who have been left […]

Bime has been working on its path for quite some time now and a few days back there was even a data visualization seen of the guys at Bime, related to the Google+ early adopters demographics. The analysis there was done on Google+ users who have their count for a bit more than 4.4 million, […]

Twitter addicts, do not despair. You have company. A survey conducted by Market Research Company Lab 42 on how members use Twitter revealed that 42% tweet more than once a day. Lab 42 asked 500 Twitter users how they use the service, why they joined Twitter, how they determine who to follow and more. Lab […]

Internet call and chat service Skype announced on Sunday that it was acquiring GroupMe, a year-old group messaging service for cellphones. The acquisition is expected to enhance Skype’s ability to facilitate text and photo messaging.

Los Angeles — In an attempt to offer real peace of mind to its more than 750 million users around the globe, social media giant Facebook over the weekend launched several initiatives and has published a free, 20-page official “Guide to Facebook Security” aimed at teens, their parents and teachers that helps you protect your […]

Google has had its share of success and failures, but the latter has had the quantity in the list. it has shut down a number of services and the recently added to the list was the Google News Archive Search which has gone missing since last week. This means Google will no longer continue its […]