Redmond, Washington — Software maker Microsoft has recently been moving cautiously in an attempt to expand its software in to health-care industry, on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire “Sentillion Inc.,” a privately held developer of software tools for the healthcare industry. Perhaps most publicly with its HealthVault services aimed at […]

Mountain View, California — Google’s latest Goggles application for Android devices helps annotate the world around you. Google search is now getting both sight and sound, moving beyond the typically typed key words to let people scour the Internet with mobile telephone cameras or spoken words in multiple languages. A new Google service Monday unveiled […]

New York — Barely a year since Google first launched “Offline Gmail,” the feature has now graduated beyond Gmails Labs and is now officially become a standard Gmail feature, of the Webmail service. About a year ago, Offline Gmail was introduced in the Labs as an experimental feature in Gmail. It functioned in Google Gears […]

San Francisco — MySpace Music, a joint venture between MySpace and the major labels, on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire “certain assets” of the cash-crunched popular social networking site Imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community to capitalize on the biggest one: users. imeem is now redirecting to MySpace […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google, whose controversial news aggregation service Google News, which has recently drawn the ire of news publisher, is teaming up with The Washington Post and The New York Times to create a new online tool that is designed to rank articles on major news stories as they develop. […]

New York — After years of stalling efforts to offer music fans the power to “rent” music instead of buying downloads, finally Apple is joining the party. Apple, earlier this week confirmed the acquisition of popular online music service Lala into the streaming music business, adding to its arsenal the ways it could offer music […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo on Monday introduced a new privacy tool planned to give users with additional control over what types of targeted ads they are delivered online. The company’s Ad Interest Manager “will show users what interests we think they have, and also let them edit and change those interests to reflect the most […]

Mountain View, California — In a flurry of major announcements as promised, Google on Monday revived the nature and scope of Internet search, unveiling considerable changes to its dominant search engine Google with some new features, including real-time search results, voice-driven translation, and image recognition capabilities with refurbished focus on mobile search, a move likely […]

New York — Microsoft and Yahoo have finally finalized the terms of a comprehensive search and advertising services and sales and license services agreement, but the two companies still wait for regulatory approval. The news seals the terms of the agreement announced in July, intended to help them compete more effectively with Google. Before Microsoft’s […]

San Francisco — Global search engine leader Google gambled attracting the wrath of privacy advocates last weekend as it now proposes to deliver customized search results available to all of its users, whether they are signed into a Google account — should be a wake-up call to those concerned about what the company knows about […]