Sunnyvale, California — Search engine giant Yahoo last week on the GeoCities website announced that it has finally decided to pull the shutter on it free web hosting sites and the entire service to rest, stating that GeoCities will cease to function on October 26, 2009. Last week, the company posted this message on the […]

San Francisco — Microsoft continues to spell progress against Google with its search engine Bing, but unfortunately for Bing is nibbling at Google’s crumbs rather than taking large bites out of its pie. Microsoft’s Bing captured 5.25% of the U.S. Internet search market in the four weeks ending June 27, while Google secured 74% of […]

San Francisco — Microsoft’s challenger to Adobe Flash, Silverlight, has officially been planned to launch Silverlight 3 on Friday at an event in San Francisco, but Microsoft silently made the final code for the latest version of its Silverlight 3 runtime for users and software development kit (SDK) for programmers have been published to the […]

Mountain View, California — In an effort to keep pace with the industry trend, Google Image Search has gone beyond similar offering from Yahoo. Google has formally added a Creative Commons filter to Image Search. Users can now filter image search results according to usage rights, for example, whether they are available for reuse, commercial […]

Sunnyvale, California — A year ago, Yahoo launched its Yahoo Query Language, a language that allowed users query, filter, and join data across web data sources or services on the web. On Wednesday Yahoo added three more functions (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) for its YQL, that now also allow developers to not just read and manipulate […]

Los Angeles — As it fights against allegations of copyright infringement, Google’s YouTube on Tuesday claimed a small legal victory in the website’s everlasting campaign not to have its pants sued off by copyright owners. A group of sports and music copyright holders, led by the UK-based Football Association Premier League, had argued that foreign […]

San Francisco — In an effort to capture wider audience and create more of a rapport between Facebook Pages and third-party websites, Facebook on Wednesday unveiled a new widget that will compete with MySpace as a platform for celebrities to connect with fans look no further than the just-launched “Fan Box”. Facebook recently introduced the […]

San Francisco — As Microsoft makes a bang with its "Bing" against Google in Internet search, Redmond now finds the tables turned in the PC operating system business. Google Inc is preparing to launch an operating system for personal computers next year, the move marks Google’s most direct challenge yet at the dominance of Microsoft […]

London — In a move to make the new-look of AOL more appealing, the web-services company has named Bebo’s European VP and MD "Kate Burns" to the newly created post as head of its European Advertising Sales operations, just before new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong completes his 100-day company review. According to AllThingsD, which in […]

Mountain View, California — In its relentless endeavor to make its software more attractive and appeasing to win more corporate customers, Google on Tuesday finally took an important decision, beginning with removing the "beta" tag today from some of its core applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs and Talk. For Gmail, the oldest component of […]