Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has announced today that its flourishing Bing search engine is now supporting query history in its Autosuggest feature. Indicating that Bing does not only analyze your usual search behavior based on earlier searches if you have your search history enabled. Bing has fine-tuned its query suggestion feature that incorporates a bit […]

Mountain View, California — Keeping up on its promise to pursue small acquisitions — Search engine giant Google on Monday announced that it has just added Picnik.com, a Web-based application that empower users to import, edit and store photos online to its arsenal.

New York — AOL’s once-aspiring Platform-A network has been going through a lot of changes lately after splitting with sugar daddy Time Warner. The company, like Yahoo, taking stock of its less profitable assets has announced the sale of “Buy.at,” the affiliate marketing firm it acquired two years ago, to London-based Digital Window for an […]

Mountain View, California — Amid growing concern about the privacy implications of location-based services, the move is latest in location-based features for the search giant. Google on Friday announced a new “Nearby” location-based search filtering capabilities to desktop computers that will empower users to search for specific places in their immediate area.

Redmond, Washington — After announcing a cross-licensing deal with Amazon.com, Redmond, software major Microsoft has signed yet another Intellectual Property (IP) licensing deal this week into its expanding patent bag, this time with consumer electronics firm Panasonic over employing its Extended File Allocation Table, aka exFAT, format. Under the deal, Panasonic will gain entree into […]

Mumbai, India — Google India, is preparing to host its first developer summit, “DevFest 2010,” in Hyderabad on February 27, 2010 and in Pune on March 3, 2010.

Mountain View, California — Google is best-known for introducing a plethora of nifty little features through Labs that make the email platform more attractive and easy to use. Well, yesterday, Google announced that six new features has been culled from the experimental Labs and will become standard features of Gmail for everyone, while five will […]

Los Angeles — Twitter members have been once again targeted on Wednesday with what appears to be the second phishing attack in a week, which displays a message that says “This you????” followed by a link that directs to a fake Twitter log-in page, according to a security blog post by Sophos’ Graham Cluley. Users […]

London — Software maker Microsoft has finally managed to topple its arch rival Google off the prized top spot to claim the title of the biggest brand in the UK with the best reputation, according to the latest Superbrands survey. The annual survey lists of the 2010 Top 500 (PDF) looked very different this time […]

Milan, Italy — Global search leader Google slammed with another surprising and severe setback in Italy on Feb. 24, when a Milan court in a landmark ruling establish that the three company executives guilty of privacy offenses in association to a contentious video clip uploaded on Google’s YouTube video-sharing service in 2006, which the critics […]