Redmond, Washington — Just before last week, software titan Microsoft announced an exclusive deal to promote its Windows 7. Well, the Redmond, Washington company on Monday said that it has canceled its sponsorship from an upcoming half-hour animated special designed by Fox featuring “Family Guy,” over content concerns. Well, that remains one of the controversial […]

Mountain View, California — To mark last week’s third anniversary of the launch of Google’s Custom Search tool, the search giant has just rolled out a small number of improvements for its Google Custom Search products, including a new set of themes, improved use of rich snippets in custom search, and a new Wikipedia search. […]

Sunnyvale, California — It seems that Yahoo Mail has suffered a breakdown. Complaints from Yahoo Mail users poured are all over Twitter. It is not clear how extensive the outage is and what is causing the issue but, the Sunnyvale, California company on Monday confirmed a Mail outage that affected a small number of its […]

San Francisco — Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, released a new Google Labs property called “Social Search,” which is intended to help Google users to find “publicly available web content from your social circle online”, became live, the company […]

Mountain View, California — After observing that a vast number of web searches stemmed from smartphones, search engine behemoth Google last week announced that it had introduced a new feature available with its “Google Custom Search,” namely the fact that it now formats search results to fit on mobile phones. Earlier this month, the Mountain […]

Los Angeles — Having access to dozens of sources for the latest news events in the tech world right at your fingertips, and if you are an avid Google Reader user as well, you now have the reason to enjoy… The search titan, last week added some new personalization features to its Google Reader to […]

San Francisco — Google on Friday, unveiled several aesthetic refinements to its Maps program, the biggest changes since its initial launch 4.7 years ago, the company said. The changes come in a variety of forms, such as sharpening up the imagery, improvements to color, density, typography, and road-styling. These changes are visible instantly in the […]

Scottsdale, Arizona — With the launching of much hyped Windows 7 at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. entered into a new field of battle with Apple with the opening of its first dedicated high-street store in the trendy US town of Scottsdale, Arizona, on Thursday to hundreds of people who waited […]

Mountain View, California — Google is preparing to bestow upon beleaguered record companies a potentially powerful boost by allowing music lovers to listen to songs or buy them directly from search results pages in a partnership to be unveiled next week with online music sites, according to reports Wednesday. So far nothing is apparent about […]

Sunnyvale, California — Continuing to bolster up original programming, Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday signed a deal with media-buying giant WPP’s GroupM Entertainment studio to create branded content for the Web portal’s key properties including news, sports, finance and entertainment. Yahoo’s agreement with GroupM should yield more original content designed specifically for advertisers, such as celebrity […]