Mountain View, California — In an attempt to expand its presence in governmental places, search engine titan Google Inc., on Monday unveiled plans to sell special Internet-hosted Google Apps platform specifically for federal, state, and local governments, with beefed-up security for sensitive information, as the Internet search leader seeks to outmaneuver rivals in the race […]

Redmond, Washington — Redmond software behemoth Microsoft is giving itself a major shot in the ARM, has updated its licensing agreement with chip design firm ARM Holdings PLC that enables the software giant to design chips based on ARM’s technology, a mainstay for cellphones that is also playing a role in new tablet-style computers. Technology […]

New York — Skype, the VoIP service provider, over the weekend announced that it has released a new update for multitasking and improved call quality on its iPhone application that enables users to receive calls while they are using other applications or when the phone is locked. Furthermore, the update (now version 2.0.1) reverses Skype’s […]

Mountain View, California — Good news for owners of Android and BlackBerry users. Internet search engine leader Google over the weekend announced a series of new enhancements brought to one of its services, namely Google Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry phones. The update which is designed to provide faster connection time, and in fact […]

Mountain View, California — Another day, another change — Google owned world’s most popular video sharing website — YouTube has rolled out a refurbished version of its Music page, trailing in the footsteps of its shows and movies pages. Long since, YouTube has been popularly branded as just a place for the occasional piece of […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Corp. is joining hands with Hewlett-Packard to produce a tablet computer that operates on Windows 7 software for the enterprise business market this year, a senior HP executive has revealed. The news from the US-based computer giant appeared as speculation heightened that HP had deserted a Windows 7 “slate” in favor […]

New York — Ignoring the iPhone in favor of the “top-of-the-line smartphone platform,” AOL Inc. on Thursday unleashed a new smartphone portal, m.aol.com. Additionally, the company has just jiggled its focus on the Android operating system with the release of 2 new exclusive app for Android devices before the iPhone. At least for AOL, Apple’s […]

Los Angeles — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday issued its own eye-popping status update: The 6-year-old social networking site has long ago surpassed MySpace to become king, but the site had just surpassed 500 million users around the world, the company said on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet […]

San Francisco — The technical difficulties of maintaining a detailed map of the world are hard enough, but things get even more complicated when you factor in political issues like border disputes. Mountain View, Calif.-based search engine titan Google late Tuesday announced “significant improvements to [their] borders for over 60 countries and regions” that will […]

Beijing, China — As the internet search engine titan Google Inc. realigns its operations in China, the company on Tuesday said that it would withdraw technical support for two online services in China run by the operator of one of the country’s most popular online forums Tianya.cn as relation between the two companies is being […]