Palm Springs, California — At the TED conference this week, Microsoft outstripped Google’s Street Views application when the software giant unleashed some cool new features for its revamped Bing Maps application, taking panoramic views indoors. The map service already fine-tuned in December made it more visually spectacular than Google Maps, its established rival, and these […]

Mountain View, California — The coolest search engine that never reached the masses got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. With its first acquisition of 2010, Google is making it know that it is serious about social networking. The company intends to get more social and compete with fast-moving rivals such […]

Sunnyvale, California — As Yahoo continues to take stock of its non-performing properties, the company, Yahoo Tech has failed to make the cut. According to reports, Yahoo is closing down Yahoo Tech, the consumer-focused tech site it introduced four years ago. The technology vertical site has been given pull its shutter down on March 11, and […]

Mountain View, California — Trying to speed up Internet service across the nation, Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to develop and test an experimental fibre optic broadband network in several communities that would be 100 times faster than what is available for many users today with one-gigabit-per-second connections.

San Francisco — Just a day after Google integrated its Gmail with a social networking feature, the newly-independent AOL Inc. unfurled a beta version of its AIM instant messaging client that connects with Facebook’s Chat service. The partnership that will allow millions of AIM users to send and receive instant messages to their Facebook friends, […]

New York — The Redmond, Wash., software maker Microsoft Corp., Tuesday forged a partnership agreement with New York-based Interpublic Group, an advertising and marketing service provider, under which Interpublic Group will adopt Microsoft’s Atlas as a preferred ad-server solution for IPG entities. The Redmond Vole is getting cozier with Madison Avenue in a deal that […]

New York — The move manifests that Microsoft and Google remain very interested in China has just surfaced. Both companies have reportedly struck deals with “MediaTek,” a Taiwanese semiconductor company that specializes in wireless communications, to strengthen their grip in the smartphones segment aimed at China and other emerging markets. Emerging markets have immense capabilities […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine behemoth Google is heading for a head-to-head combat with Facebook and Twitter after it unveiled a bundle of new social networking features on its email service. Google, on Tuesday announced a new social networking service called Google Buzz, which allows Gmail users to share status updates, images, videos and […]

Mountain View, California — Google has possibly done it again! Rumors on the street are abuzz that the search titan is planning to break the language barrier and Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android smartphones to convert one language into another language on-the-fly quickly enough to allow speakers without a common […]

San Francisco — Interestingly enough, Google Earth is a great tool to explore places around the globe you may not be able to get to otherwise. But it does not ends just there, it takes you back in time. Google Earth has now made available historical aerial images taken during the Second World War depicting […]