Mountain View, California — If you wish to see Mayor Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco favorites that is the Mint Cafe in the Superior Court basement and the Castro Theatre, and where many cool people of San Francisco dine and drink, then check out Google’s latest mapping project. Search engine titan Google on Wednesday unveiled a […]

San Francisco — Microsoft Corp.’s recently launched Bing search engine, has witnessed an 8 percent growth in unique users since its June 2009 launch, swallowing a bout of market share at the expense of Yahoo! Inc. rather than Google Inc., research firm comScore Inc. said. The Bing homepage image changes every day and now includes […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing and service-level plans giving details about how it will charge potential customers that wishes to use its Windows Azure cloud computing service when it is released in final form this fall, but making it free for anyone to use before the company begins charging for it in […]

Hyderabad, India — Search engine titan Google Inc., pulled down the shutter of its center in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad for two days, after one its employees was confirmed to be suffering from the H1N1 swine-flu virus. Google said it has closed to examine the extent of the spread of the virus. According […]

Redmond, Washington — In a surprising move early this week, the software titan Microsoft Corp. intensified its battle with its arch rival Google, said it will move a limited version of one of its core businesses with the announcement of a free Office software suite to the Internet for the 400 million people who have […]

London — In an attempt to rival the likes of Spotify and We7, Microsoft is planning to introduce a new music streaming service by the end of this month. According to an MSN executive, the service would be ready by the end of July, and will allow users to stream music for free and also […]

Mountain View, California — Google Voice, previously dubbed Grand Central, the universal voice mailbox and call-routing service that Google unveiled in March, is now geared up to deliver its first mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry this evening. Google is releasing a mobile application that will address these kinds of problems. Google Voice, which is […]

San Francisco — TiVo, the Silicon Valley innovator that popularized the Digital Video Recorder, and Best Buy, the consumer electronics chain, are embarking on a broad partnership to promote TiVo products in its stores, and looking at ways to integrate TiVo tech into Best Buy products. On Thursday, the two companies plan to announce that […]

San Francisco — Mobile users have long back had access to a Google Maps feature called MyLocation that functions precisely as you would think: shows images in universal search results for location queries. But just recently, Google unveiled MyLocation features for the desktop. Now, users of desktop based Google Maps can now find the approximate […]

San Francisco — Rosetta Stone, the Arlington based maker of language-learning software, is joining a growing crowd of companies, filed a lawsuit today against Google for trademark infringement, in the US District Court in Virginia, where the company is headquartered, alleging the Internet search giant for allowing third-parties buy permission to use other people’s trademarks […]