Geneva, Switzerland — Last week, the Swiss Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Hanspeter Thuer, said in a statement that he was pulling web search giant Google to the Federal Administrative Court over the search engine’s refusal to implement privacy measures of the people/places in its “Street View” service. The Street View application that allows users […]

Sunnyvale, California — Based on its commencement of the world’s most advanced mobile homepage, Yahoo on Thursday unveiled a “Yahoo Mobile en Español,” a Spanish-language mobile homepage that is customized for the specific needs of the U.S. Hispanic subscribers, offering a highly attractive mobile Internet experience and setting a new industry standard, in a move […]

Redmond, Washington — After cannibalizing Live Search and additional brands attached to the moniker utilized for Microsoft’s former search engine, Bing now swallowed MSN Video. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled Bing Video, a re-launch of MSN Video that derives content from sites like Hulu, MSN, and YouTube. The site features news, entertainment shows, sports, music, comedy […]

Mountain View, California — Global search leader Google has recently been engaged in experimenting its new “Product Listing Ads” ad format with several online retailers as a new model to get paid search ads featuring product images in Google.com search results, and yesterday, the company announced that they are beginning to expand their product listings […]

Los Angeles — So far, Google’s Voice service has been portrayed as a piecemeal apparatus. With an eye on strengthening its VoIP offerings, search titan Google has made a clever move by harnessing the technology offered by “Gizmo5,” a startup which offers services similar to Skype into Google Voice and thus increase its share in […]

Mountain View, California — Google, which has long since introduced different features and tools for web browsing, now has come up with a new application called “Flu Shot Finder”. The California-based Internet giant on Tuesday introduced a novel feature in its Maps Web site that enables U.S. residents find nearby locations for getting vaccinations against […]

San Francisco — In what could be deemed as a thinly veiled endeavor to shine up its image, Google Inc., hoping to attract holiday cheer to harried travelers, on Tuesday announced an early Christmas present in the form of free Wi-Fi at approximately 47 major U.S. airports across the country running through January 15, 2010; […]

New York — Even as the dwindling economy seems to be recuperating, but ahead of broader layoffs at AOL, the soon-to-be-independent company issued pink slips to 100 of their employees on Tuesday, in what several industry blogs are predicting it as a prelude to mass layoffs expected to occur once the company completes its spin […]

San Francisco — Twitter continues to spread its wings across the Web. Twitter’s spree of associations is not ending anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter made an alliance to integrate Twitter within Bing. On Tuesday, Twitter and LinkedIn announced a new partnership to bring tweets to LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. […]

Redmond, Washington — While there have been a number of .NET libraries for the Facebook Platform for some time now, Microsoft on Monday officially unveiled its latest software development kit for Facebook that empowers developers to create Facebook applications for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. The two companies’ latest venture incorporated Web, client, and social […]