Mountain View, California — Stranded in the middle of a foreign land, armed only with a mobile phone? Search engine titan Google has unveiled a mobile version of its new movie search service for the Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Pixi, Android-powered smartphones and Palm’s webOS, to make on-the-fly searching for movies easier. With this latest mobile […]

San Francisco — Barely days after it announced plans to gobble up Teracent, an online display advertising company, Google on Wednesday offered a glimpse on its blog of the current and still developing many forms of advertising we can expect to see in its search results. Google has now introduced a new feature in search […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to make TV advertising more accountable — and to sell more of it through its online auction service – Google today announced it has made a license agreement with DVR company TiVo that enables the Internet search provider to integrate TiVo set-top box viewing data into its measurement […]

Los Angeles — AOL has renewed its logo and plans to launch the new look after it is liberated from its oppressive Time Warner overlords, as it faces a tough year ahead. But AOL is trying to emerge from this rough patch as a stronger company — previewed its new brand identity Monday and stepped […]

San Francisco — Black Friday sale is a few days away but, web search behemoth Google Inc. is continuing its late-year spending spree, on Monday announced that it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc. “Teracent’s technology can select and adopt from literally thousands […]

Mountain View, California — Google has reinforced its map search considerably since introducing in July, and has since made one upgrade in October, and now the search titan is making many other interesting changes to make property searches easier and search results more useful for users, the most significant being the option to search for […]

Los Angeles — Adobe Systems Incorporated, this weekend announced the unveiling of a slightly smoother version of its Acrobat.com, which includes several major hosted-application system that includes 35 new features, designed to make working together across organizations even easier than before and its first mobile application. Incorporating more than 35 customer-suggested features, all of which […]

New York — According to a news report appearing Sunday in the Financial Times quoting person familiar with the situation, that Microsoft has initiated discussions with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. over a deal that would see the media magnet get paid to remove its news websites from Google, while continuing to publish it on Microsoft’s […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Go, a four-year-old mobile application service that connects users to a number of diversified services (including mail, news, and weather), is reportedly getting ready to pull its shutter down on January 12, 2010, the company announced. Yahoo has decided to focus its mobile efforts elsewhere. Starting the beginning of 2010, Yahoo […]

Los Angeles — For every modern businesses, even with the availability of open source office applications, Microsoft Office is the standard for productivity applications. During this week’s Professional Developers Conference PDC09 in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Microsoft unwrapped a free public beta of its forthcoming version of popular Office suite, Office 2010, In addition […]