San Francisco — Google Inc. is now proposing a novel concept to authors and publishers who wish to release their work under Creative Commons licenses to distribute it through Google Books, an unpaid service that allows users to search and read books online, allowing rights owners the option to modify their copyright licenses and specify […]

New York — As Amazon is rapidly assuming the way of Apple in the e-book world, and now in a direct challenge to Amazon, Sony seems to be secretly hatching plans from number to position to switch its electronic book store to an open system that will let customers read a wide range of materials […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine leader Google has already been busy as just yesterday it introduced a new social features for the iGoogle start page, and now it has diverted its attention to the popular feed reader, added a number of new features to Google Reader. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, newly […]

San Francisco — You are now trapped in the weird web of widgets — get ready to spend lengthy hours on your iGoogle home page, the Big G is about to social it up. Google on Wednesday added a social-networking capabilities to its iGoogle customizable home-page service by introducing software “gadgets” that will enable users […]

San Jose, California — With major changes looming large over Google AdWords, as search engine giant at SES unfurls some tantalizing hints. Many might have noticed those trustworthy AdWords ads that earlier used to appear at the extreme right hand side of your search results now seems getting a little bit closer to them than […]

New York — It comes as no surprise that Google owned popular video-sharing website YouTube is also one of the the second most popular search engine, faring after only Google in overall search queries. And kudos, YouTube today is rolling out a new, more sparse masthead that displays its search box front and center. With […]

Redmond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. is expected today to announce an alliance with European mobile giant Nokia Corp., unveiling plans that would bring the mobile version of Microsoft Office to Nokia’s market-leading smartphones. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, is set to unleash the latest version of its Office product next year, including […]

San Francisco — Facebook Inc., the most popular social networking site just yesterday announced it had acquired a startup FriendFeed, and hot on the heels rolled out an update to real-time search late Monday that promises to give users more comprehensive results for status updates, links, photos, videos, and notes for friends and non-friends alike, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Barely days have passed as Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal, Yahoo search veteran “Doug Cutting,” the much admired open-source engineer who has led the way in speeding up the processing of huge amounts of data, is leaving Yahoo to join open-source management startup called Cloudera. Cutting announced his departure Monday […]

New York — After failing to takeover Twitter last fall, Facebook’s shopping spree finally paid off, as Facebook on Monday announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, a Silicon Valley startup which allows members to see what their friends are doing online and share content — to become a social networking hub for an […]