San Francisco — Back in April, Google unveiled a nifty new version of Gmail for Apple’s iPhone and Android-powered devices. On Wednesday, the search company intorduced two most remarkable updates to the mobile version of Gmail, speeding up things that includes faster address auto-complete and keyboard shortcuts for Android and iPhones. Now users of Android […]

Mountain View, California — Two months back, a class-action lawsuit enforced on Google by AdWords advertisers who were billed more than their Daily Budget plan, have been receiving some interesting notices in their inboxes lately from Google, will be awarded up to $20,000 under the terms of a settlement reached this week. So now it […]

Beijing, China — US Internet pioneer Yahoo yesterday unveiled plans that it will open a global research and development center (R&D) in Beijing to tap into China’s pool of intellectual talent as it focuses on research on search, advertising, cloud computing, and other personal internet tools and technologies, besides seeking to reduce costs, state media […]

Redmond, Washington — Software maker Microsoft Corp.’s newly launched internet search engine Bing is gaining ground over search leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., according to some early figures from market researcher comScore reported Tuesday.

Sunnyvale, California — During the last few months of Carol Bartz’s reign, a lot of upper class employees are quitting, and now a senior vice president is ready to join the group’s ranks. “Allen Olivo,” SVP of global brand marketing, and has been on Yahoo’s payroll for over three years, is leaving the company, according […]

San Francisco — In a dramatic move to capture faithful Microsoft Outlook audience, search engine giant Google Inc. on Tuesday introduced a service that makes it easier for businesses to switch to its Web-based communications and collaboration products called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. The search giant said that its new Google Apps Sync […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has fired every bullet out in every direction to create a search engine that can battle Google, and ultimately the software maker last month rolled out Bing, the company’s rival to Google. And now, along with Bing the company has also launched Bing Travel engine, ready to help you globe-trot. Microsoft […]

Mountain View, California — One of the most useful, although often-unnoticed, features of Google Book Search is the ability to scan your own books and build a personal library which you can then search if Google has scanned those books. The official Google Books blog has posted tips that now you can scan your books […]

San Francisco — Prospects are gaining momentum for an event Google will hold today to announce that its “Google Docs” productivity suite will be updated with a number of improvements over the next 12 months. The morning event, to be held in San Francisco, will boast a CIO roundtable and new product demos, which Google […]

New York — The Intenet is flooded with condolences as the news spreads that Rajeev Motwani, the much-admired Stanford University professor of computer science from India, and widely acknowledged for guiding such sparkling Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Paypal Inc. died in a freak drowning accident at his Bay area home on […]