San Francisco — *If you ever come across a foreign language, which you are unable to read, then what would you do? However, millions of people do not know German and cannot read the millions of German-language webpages. Google has found a quick solution with the release of a new version of the “Google Toolbar […]

San Francisco — Mozilla yesterday released Firefox 3.5, introducing the latest version of the world’s second-most popular open-source Web browser, spreading delight into the hearts of children and adults alike — tete-a-tete with current browsing technology and trends, intensifying the battle between competing browsers that is dramatically increasing the speed with which web pages are […]

New York — Web pioneer Yahoo took a little while, but Flickr has just embraced a new feature that it should have done long ago — “Flickr2Twitter,” this new feature would enable you to uploaded photos directly from your Flickr to your Twitter account. Flickr also committed itself to keeping and updating a Twitter account. […]

Sunnyvale, California — Taking stock of its weak and underperforming services, Carol Bartz continues to strike a blow at Yahoo. The Sunnyvale, Calif. Web pioneer said it is pulling the shutter on its online-video start-up service “Maven Networks,” which it purchased last year for $160 million, as part of a broader strategy to minify noncore […]

San Francisco — With disruptive protests violently spreading in Iran after a controversial election followed by the unexpected demise of pop star Michael Jackson, journalists from all walks of life have had a lot to cover over the past couple weeks. Seemingly in response to this coverage, YouTube and Google News have commenced a project […]

Redmond, Washington — After shelving the development of one data center for several months and losing a couple of high profile executives in its data center group, Microsoft plans to open two new data centers in Chicago and Dublin, Ireland in July, both of which will meet environmental sustainability standards, preparing for increased demand for […]

Mountain View, California — If you use Gmail or YouTube making large attachments poses is a big no-no unless you have got a bit more space to play with in terms of file size for both the services. Now you can send bigger attachments, as Google Inc. has increased the maximum file size limits on […]

San Francisco — Microsoft has finally announced that their old-timer MSN web-based messenger will become unavailable from this Tuesday, June 30, 2009. But the software behemoth is only pulling out the old MSN Web Messenger, as it has now recently introduced Windows Live Messenger that is integrated into Hotmail and Windows Live People. The ace […]

Mountain View, California — Barely a week after reserving 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, Google, late last week began sending out invitations to users who have expressed interest in Google Voice, the company’s online voice mail and call management system. Users have been waiting months for Google Voice service to go live. Google […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has assigned Morgan Stanley a task to help find a potential buyer for Razorfish, its digital ad agency, and according to sources, one possible bidder has come forward is believed to be French marketing company Publicis Group SA which is planning more acquisitions in the online advertising business, the Financial Times […]