Mountain View, California — JaJah, a Mountain View, Calif.-based VoIP service provider, on Tuesday scored a nice partnership with Microsoft to launch a new IP service for enterprises, allowing business customers to make voice calls over the Internet from computers and landlines, aimed at improving the quality of VoIP calls made using Office Communications Server […]

San Francisco — Google’s Google Maps team has been quite occupied this summer, enriching its platform and beefing up location-based services such as Google Latitude, and now Google Maps is adding traffic data for side streets this week, in addition to the data it already offers up for major highways. The company now delivers traffic […]

Mountain View, California — From the day it was first launched in the United States, Google Street View has been the subject of countless criticism and complaints, with many countries and their citizens claiming it harms their right to privacy. Switzerland is the latest country to fall foul of this disease. The Swiss data commissioner […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft on Monday unveiled plans for mobile software called OneApp, that is targeted for people in emerging markets to access Twitter, Facebook and other various hot Internet programs using low-cost "feature phones" common in developing countries. The software, named OneApp, would empower people in developing countries to access services like Facebook, Twitter, […]

Sunnyvale, California — The pioneering web portal Yahoo Inc., which recently signed a spectacular multi-year, multi-billion-dollar search and advertising deal to outsource its search engine to Microsoft, kicked off the week with full determination to continue developing search technology updates to several of its products like Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger with redesigned […]

New York — A federal appeals court in New York chaired by three-judge panel issued a ruling Friday in favor of Yahoo Inc Internet radio stations from paying higher music royalties every time it plays a song on its LAUNCHcast Webcasting service, which provides individualized music streams to Web users, in a setback to labels […]

New York — Microblogging website Twitter is hopping on the geolocation bandwagon trend by introducing a new feature that makes Twitter location-aware: an API that will allow users for accurate, tweet-level location data and make the information accessible both on the main Twitter site and through external applications. Tweets will include location based metadata attached […]

San Francisco — Google Book Search archive continues to face opposition even as it managed to reach an amicable settlement last October with the Association of American Publishers and the Author’s Guild. Earlier this year, it was the that initiated an inquiry, which is still pending in the court, and now Google is being challenged […]

San Francisco — Google Inc.’s YouTube on Wednesday said that it has signed a deal with Time Warner Inc. to show program clips from a range of its properties, including CNN, the Cartoon Network and TNT, in an agreement that allows both the companies to share advertising sales from the online videos. YouTube needs to […]

New York — After rumors of an impending deal leaked two days earlier, News Corp’s MySpace moved to strengthen its entertainment arsenal said on Thursday it has agreed to purchase music recommendation service iLike, as the once-hot social networking site faces a drop-off in visitors and tries to reinvent itself as an hub for music, […]