San Francisco — Internet giant Google amid criticism from media companies, now continuing to appease the dying newspaper industry, has added more than dozens 24 media partners to its online news reader “Fast Flip,” including the Tribune and McClatchy newspaper groups, the Huffington Post and Politico, bringing the total number of newspapers, magazines and blogs […]

Mountain View, California — Managing your contacts can be a pretty irksome task, especially when you have multiple instances of your contacts scattered all over the place. Global search leader Google, earlier this week introduced a new feature Gmail dubbed as contact manager that searches for duplicate contacts and then lets you instantly merge duplicate […]

Los Angeles — The Germans are great admirer of their cars and occasionally they add innovative gadgets in the newest models they export around the world. Search engine giant Google, another creative thinker is partnering with German car manufacturer Audi to include Google Earth and a number of other Google services in its flagship luxury […]

Mountain View, California — Google and Facebook are each set to embark into new territory on Monday with the launch of a new URL-shortening service, a tool that modifies a long internet address in to a much shorter string of random characters such as Goo.gl, potentially shaking up the sector and putting pressure on established […]

San Francisco — With competition between tech titans on the rise, it looks as if Redmond software maker Microsoft is running out of ideas and is now desperately adopting crooked ways on ruining their reputation by using stolen code. A popular Asian microblogging start-up “Plurk” accused Microsoft of plucking off around 80 percent of code […]

New York — AOL’s MapQuest has finally announced the launch of “360 degree views,” to its maps today, a feature that saw the day of light almost two-and-a-half years after Google first added similar images to Google Maps Street view. Currently, it is available for 30 cities and 13 suburbs in the United States, with […]

Copenhagen, Denmark — As world leaders gather in Copenhagen, planning to thrust engagement and support of actions against climate change, Software behemoth, Microsoft rolled out a new Web-based applications designed to highlight environmental problems during the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which runs through Friday. Microsoft has rolled out two new […]

San Francisco — Barely days after separating from corporate company Time Warner, AOL Inc. is negotiating to sell its ICQ instant-messaging service to Russian Internet-investment Russian firm, Digital Sky Technologies, is best known for its $200 million stake in Facebook, according to people familiar with the matter. Quoting unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal said […]

Mountain View, California — In its latest attempt to make headway in the lucrative mobile market around the globe, search engine titan Google Inc. is developing its own proprietary Android smartphone dubbed as “Nexus One,” to be released in early 2010 without a mobile carrier partner, marks a new push by the company to take […]

Sunnyvale, California — Not to be scooped out by its rivals, just days after Google announced its plan for integrating content from sources such as Twitter and blogs in to real-time search, taking advantage of its newly gained access to Twitter’s cosmic collection of data, as well as feeds from Facebook, MySpace and others. And […]