New York — A picture is worth a thousand words, and Google could not resist promoting a new, minor feature in its Docs product yesterday, making it a little bit easier to smarten up a document with the addition of a drag-and-drop option to Google Docs, which will allow users to pull an image directly […]

San Francisco — Aiming to bolster its hosted productivity-focused software applications from the cloud, software monopolist Microsoft shoved another step onto Google’s turf, on Tuesday announced that it will bundle its Office Web Apps system with several other familiar business applications in an online collection it calls “Office 365,” in an attempt to further shift […]

Mountain View, California — Google’s enterprise drive continues with plans to link two of its more business-oriented products: The search engine company’s enterprise search hardware can now combine internal and external search indexes. It appears simple–and long overdue–but Google plans to introduce a new version of its Search Appliance that allows business users to find […]

Redmond, Washington — In a surprise move, Microsoft Corp.’s software chief “Ray Ozzie,” the technical visionary who was appointed to galvanize Microsoft’s attempt to overhaul its business for the Internet era, is to leave the company after a brief transition, it was announced unexpectedly on Monday.

Madrid, Spain — Google’s fleet of Street View cars, the vehicles that are being employed to create its virtual mapping service, are being scrutinized by governments around the globe for violating privacy laws. The gigantic global search engine company has run afoul of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, or AEPD, the Spanish government’s […]

Sunnyvale, California — If you cannot beat ’em; join ’em. That seems to be the reflection behind Yahoo’s latest strategy to drive traffic to its site. In a clear sign the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s reshuffled leadership team plans on making a big splash in the social media space by accelerating its efforts to join the […]

Mountain View, California — Google Analytics has become an indispensable service and is used by a significant number of online publishers and businesses for tracking how internet users are interacting with their websites. Now the life of the average Google Analytics user is about to witness a new innovation. Internet search engine behemoth Google is […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to keep its hands clean and browsing the web a safer place, search engine titan Google announces its innovative alarm system for Safe Browsing notifications about compromised websites sent to network administrators allows them to detect phishing URLs.

New York — Skype, the prominent provider of Internet communications software and Japanese cellphone operator KDDI Corporation, on Sunday announced that they have entered in to an strategic alliance which will see the integration of Skype across KDDI’s services, and the first fruits of this partnership would begin with its mobile offerings — “au“.

San Francisco — Internet search engine behemoth Google over the weekend announced that it is forging an alliance with Slooh, in an attempt to offer live space exploration service to Google Earth by way of a new “map the universe” layer. As part of the association, many of the images captured with Slooh until now […]