San Francisco — Google’s most popular and yet extremely contentious 360-degree Street View mapping service last week received an impressive update for publishing pictures of public spaces, now delivers a smart navigation technique that allows greater freedom of movement within roadway panoramas. So far, users had to navigate through Street View using some pretty basic […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling search pioneer Yahoo attempting to regain its dominance, announced today that users of Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo Connected TV and Zimbra email will find a number of new widgets and personalized home pages to make its site “sticky” that will give users quicker access to things they do online everyday […]

San Francisco — Seeking to capture the mobile domain and simplifying it for Nokia S60 Smartphone users to access its Web services on the go, search engine giant Google has finally launched a mobile application for S60 devices. The free Google Mobile App empowers S60 users quick access to the search company’s Web services, including […]

New York — Facebook has once again succeeded in swaying yet another important Googler to join its ranks. Google’s AdWords operations chief “Grady Burnett,” who held the title “Director, Online Sales & Operations” will quit the company and move from Ann Arbor, Mich., to join Facebook in Palo Alto, where he will lead the startup’s […]

San Francisco — Following the sounds of its fellow entrepreneurs, Sony Corp’s Sony Music Entertainment has answered the call to join “VEVO,” the new online premium music video and entertainment service conceived by Universal Music Group (UMG) and powered by Google Inc’s YouTube when the site launches, and will bring with it a library of […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo is in a battle royal with the NFL Players Association, over the right to use pro football players’ stats, filed a lawsuit against the (NFLPA), disputing that it should not have to pay additional royalties to use player’s statistics and images and other data in its popular online fantasy football game […]

Beijing, China — After exactly 20 years back, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese Red Army opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, resulting in the loss of hundreds–if not thousands–of innocent lives. However, the Chinese authorities have tightened security on Wednesday ahead of the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown, and blocked […]

Sunnyvale, California — Is your e-mail inbox swarmed with newsletters, bill notifications, and junk mails? Yahoo has rolled out a small but useful feature to its Web mail service that allows users to filter the contents of their inbox to display only the mails from “contacts or connections” to help you get to your most […]

San Francisco — While Microsoft’s Bing is busy banging its new decision engine and Wolfram Alpha attempting to lure users with its computational prowess, search engine giant Google, released an experimental new search product publicly on Wednesday called “Google Squared”. Google Squared was first previewed back in May, at Google’s Searchology event, is “an experimental […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine behemoth Google Inc is intensifying it campaigns to impregnate one of its latest and technically sophisticated product called Google Search Appliance 6.0 (GSA), which it claims would allow businesses to perform Google-type searches on billions of documents. It is not surprising that Google sells hardware, too, and on Tuesday […]