Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz has scheduled a press conference in New York for Monday, when it may soon announce a partnership with Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, and is expected to reveal a “Project Nike”. According to the latest information on the matter, the duo might announce a partnership to […]

Mountain View, California — People who wish to curtail their use of Google’s Web search more secure from network sleuths now have the option of encrypting the session by entering “https://www.google.com” into their browser, juggling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results that Google displays, will be protected from […]

Mountain View, California — Google in not just targeting the iPhone. It has set its sights on Apple’s dominance of online music, and one of the most fascinating bits of news to appear out of Google I/O conference was the company’s stealth acquisition of Simplify Media a couple months ago.

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has added some new dimension to its Bing Maps, which was already impressive in quite a few ways. If you are taking a trip by car this summer, Bing has added three new applications to its Maps service that looks to beat the Google Maps competitor a one-stop destination for making […]

Redmond, Washington — After an investigation extending for more than a year, Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., filed two click-fraud lawsuits Wednesday, in federal court in Seattle against Eric C. Ralls and the company he established, RedOrbit Inc., a Dallas science news and shopping site, plus 10 unnamed defendants that allegedly generate fake clicks on […]

New York — After a fairly long wait, a process that began about six weeks ago has now come to fruition. Twitter has been escalating its presence in the mobile world. Just over a month since it acquired tweeting app dubbed as Tweetie, Twitter has launched its official app for the iPhone and iPod Touch today, […]

Mountain View, California — Almost a year has passed since Google unveiled Wave at Google I/O 2009, but its usage has been limited as it was available by invitation. But internet search leader Google on Wednesday opened to the world an innovative Wave communications platform that lets people chat and collaborate in real time, is […]

Van der Stahl Scientific is an innovative medical device packaging machinery provider with a corporate commitment to help medical device manufacturing firms such as Medtronic, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific, etc. meet the rigors of sterile device packaging compliance that is laid down by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, as well […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo has agreed to acquire Associated Content, an Internet portal that commissions and publishes articles and other content from its vast stable of 380,000 freelance contributors to write commentary and informational articles on a broad range of subjects, in a major push by the Internet portal to offer more original content.

San Francisco — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday gave a major blow to Salesforce.com Inc., in a federal court filing, accusing that the customer-relationship management (CRM) vendor has violated on nine of Microsoft’s patents for ways to make software more efficient, adding a legal angle to the software companies’ brewing rivalry. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in […]