Mountain View, California — Several months ago, creators of Google’s Gmail service have launched Gmail Priority Inbox. It was very well received and today, the search engine titan Google has upgraded its Priority Inbox, which automatically places important mail on top of your inbox, with a couple of enhancements based on user feedback.

Redmond, Washington — Attempting to safeguard itself in advance, software monopolists Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its next version of its popular Internet Explorer browser will include a novel technology that can block third-party firms from tracking a user’s activity on the Web. The software maker’s announcement comes just less than a week after the […]

New York — Amazon is not conceding defeat with the recently launched Google’s eBookstore without a fight: Amazon executives on Tuesday demonstrated a new version of “Kindle for the Web” as it tries to play catch-up with search engine leader’s new e-book effort, at a Google press event, which introduced a new, swifter version of […]

Mountain View, California — After months of planning, global search engine leader Google on Monday unveiled its much anticipated e-book-only bookstore, Google eBooks, a new service for buying and reading digital books, puts the firm in competition with Amazon, Apple and Borders for the ballooning electronic-book market.

New York — Over the weekend, rumors are swirling around as to what might be taken as a reaction to Google integrating their competing Google Voice VoIP service directly into GMail, popular VoIP provider Skype is becoming more user friendly and could be gearing up to come up with a web-based voice service in the […]

Los Angeles — Netflix is currently the big monster of the movie streaming game but offerings from several established companies might put up a bit of fight. The WSJ is reporting that Amazon, the online shopping site is working on another streaming service with subscription feature similar to Netflix, which will somehow be bundled with […]

Mountain View, California — Global search engine titan Google on Thursday fixed 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and took the wraps off its full version of Chrome 8 with a number of enhancements under the bonnet including a built-in PDF viewer to the desktop browser.

Los Angeles — Social networking website Facebook, which has never been shy about tweaking its design, on Sunday unveiled a new set-up for profile pages that complements photos center stage, allow users to highlight important friends and go into far more detail on their jobs. Some of the enormous changes include a new capsule at […]

Tokyo — An association between Yahoo Japan and Google may sound unlikely for all sorts of reasons, but Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Thursday sanctioned a local web-search alliance between Yahoo Japan Corp. and Google Inc., disregarding concerns raised by Japanese lawmakers and Rakuten Inc. that the deal could hurt competition. Although Google, the world’s […]

Redmond, Washington — Software monopolist Microsoft’s MSN, which has unleashed a series of very successful sites with major magazine publishers over the last two years, is now joining hands with health and fitness publisher Rodale to launch a new interactive, multimedia online channel, Fitbie, devoted to fitness, nutrition and weight loss.