New York — For all the cool stuff to start hitting shelves this season, Sony has just dispatched an invitation for a New York City press event slated for October 12 that promises the official unveiling of its Google TV-capable Bravia line, “the world’s first Internet Television.”

Mountain View, California — As the clock struck 12 today, September 27, 2010, the search engine titan Google begins to celebrate its 12th (pre-teen) Birthday with yet another “doodle” cake with a candle by eminent 89-year-old Los Angeles artist Wayne Thiebaud. And what better way could there to do it, then to share a birthday […]

Paris — A French court earlier this month convicted US search engine titan Google and CEO Eric Schmidt for defamation, liable over results from its “suggest” feature, a French legal affairs website has disclosed.

Redmond, Washington — Software monopolist Microsoft is leveraging its huge webmail user base to get a piece of the social-networking pie. The Redmond Vole on Thursday unleashed several updates to its free Hotmail service, after users continued to complain about the firm’s recent shaky overhaul of its free web email service, including tie-ins with Facebook […]

Mountain View, California — Despite harsh rivalry between Apple and Google in the mobile space, as each vying for supremacy in the emerging markets, the companies have “recently extended” its search deal, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Los Angeles — Software major Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed plans that it will offer its Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) anti-malware solution product for free to small businesses with up to ten computers, starting in October. Since its debut in September 2009, the package, which is the successor to the ill-fated OneCare suite, includes antivirus and […]

San Francisco — LinkedIn, the Mountain View online business networking site, has agreed to acquire start-up “ChoiceVendor” a company that classifies and reviews business-to-business service providers in its second major acquisition in the space of six weeks. ChoiceVendor, a San Francisco based start-up, established in 2008 by former Google employees, provides ratings and reviews to […]

Redmond, Washington — It might have seemed impossible, but now that 20 million people have tried out Redmond-based Microsoft’s suite of free Office Web Apps since its launch in June, and now PowerPoint and Excel are about to become even more pervasive, besides the company is expanding their reach to seven more countries and adding […]

Prague — After submitting a request that would allow search engine behemoth Google’s dream to expand its Street View mapping service in the Czech Republic have been dealt a fresh blow as the country’s privacy watchdog says the product “disproportionately invades citizens’ privacy”.

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft may have abandoned its Bing Search CashBack program, but users and lovers of palm-grease, this could be your kind of day. Microsoft is trying its hand at another attempt to increase search share using rewards, now based on credits, has gone live.