Mountain View, California — In an aggressive attempt to demonstrate more of what is available via its RSS reader, Google on Wednesday launched a new, labs experimental interface dubbed as Google Reader Play. The new tool aims to simplify things and empowers users to view content from their RSS feeds in a more stylish way.

San Francisco — As Google attempts to make inroads in the social networking world with Buzz, now MySpace, once the 500 pound gorilla of social networking, with shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, has been in retreat for over a year — but the company’s new co-presidents are seeking to turn the site […]

New York — Microsoft’s efforts to promote its new Internet search engine Bing appears to be yielding fruits — at the expense of partner Yahoo, but it still remains well behind a so-far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google Inc. According to latest figures from market tracking firm comScore, which shows Redmond software giant’s […]

Mountain View, California — Whether on your computers or playing with your iPhone, Palm WebOS phone or Android smartphones, finding nearby products to buy and automating actions in Google Apps just got easier. Google on Thursday introduced a novel “Product Search” feature that allows you to check-out the product’s availability at a nearby store by […]

Mountain View, California — Just as we reported last month, Google has finally opened up a new online app store for Google Apps called Google Apps Marketplace today, continuing its push into the enterprise, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google’s own online applications.

Redmond, Washington — Around four months back the Redmond software giant Microsoft offered a preview of its redesigned MSN homepage. Now as the MSN team has had time to test out different features and designs, and Microsoft on Tuesday formally began rolling out its latest MSN homepage, the revamped site features a simplified design, and […]

San Francisco — Search engine titan Google on Monday unveiled its latest visualization venture from Google Labs experiment called Google Public Data Explorer that empowers people to explore various public data and create their own interactive charts and graphs — from unemployment in the U.S. to education statistics in California, which can be embedded in […]

London — Microsoft is about to unleash its first multimillion-pound UK TV ad campaign to promote its search engine Bing, as part of a major marketing push designed in a bid to steal Google’s dominance of the UK search market share.

San Francisco — Search engine behemoth Google reportedly appears to have set its sights on the television set-top box carrying out a modest test in conjunction with Dish Network Corp., The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. According to the newspaper, citing “people familiar with the matter,” said the service runs on TV set-top boxes […]

Redmond, Washington — There is no love lost between Microsoft, the company behind the Windows Mobile OS, and Google, which has not stopped the Windows-maker from creating an Android-based version of its Tag application, which uses the phone’s camera to allow users to read hidden information in barcodes. Microsoft’s “Tag,” the free application that works […]