New York — Popular VoIP service Skype has wooed its fair share of people with an itch to ditch the land-line and announced the availability of its latest desktop client, Skype 5.0. Skype went social Thursday by releasing a new version for Windows that integrates Facebook, so that users of the popular Internet communications service […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo.com, the search engine that boasts itself as “the world’s most visited homepage” has acknowledged and apologized for a “temporary” outage on Yahoo.com around 2:15 p.m. PDT on Thursday, October 14.

San Francisco — Popular microblogging site Twitter explicitly said it has terminated its partnership with JustSpotted.com, a controversial new celebrity spotting website that lately began promoting its service, can no longer crow about its cozy relationship with Twitter, which is slated to launch next week.

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft and Facebook moved to bridge the gap between social media and search Wednesday when the two companies announced tighter integration to create Bing Social. Starting on Wednesday, Bing will allow searchers to view results generated by their Facebook friends’ use of the “like” button on the social network, in an attempt […]

Mountain View, California — Internet search engine titan Google Inc.’s ambitions to expand its advertising prowess beyond the Internet have been dealt a big blow by the loss of its marquee media partner — NBC Universal, which scrapped a two-year-old alliance with Google that allowed the search engine giant to sell ad space on several […]

New York — Wish to have a Google TV, with its Web browsing applications, and powerful search, but that box sitting around your TV bothers you? Well then you will surely love the new HDTVs that Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp., is treading with a prudent tag line: “the world’s first internet television” to promote […]

Mountain View, California — Internet search engine behemoth Google, which has slowly been ramping up its local efforts, has executed a subtle yet important shift in its management structure today, appointed one of the most visible faces of the company to oversee a potentially important source of growth. Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.’s vice president of […]

San Francisco — Users of the world’s popular social networking website Facebook are nervous about using their real password on public computers can now get a one-time password sent to their mobile phones. In an attempt to ward off keyloggers, Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new security feature that will provide users with a temporary […]

New York — In a major thrust to get its mojo working in wireless devices, Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a last-ditch attempt unveiled a new line of Windows-based smartphones and other technology, much of which will have voice, video and data service from Dallas-based AT T, which has won favorable early reviews, but it may […]

Mountain View, California — Internet search engine behemoth Google’s relentless efforts of translating languages of the world is slowly but sure coming to fruition. Google, over the weekend has bundled Latin to its automatic translation service, the 58th language supported by Google Translate and the first dead language in its repertoire, the company said in […]