Redmond, Washington — So far, Redmond Vole’s Photosynth has been mostly available as a consumer-oriented application, employed to meld multiple pictures together to create 3D views of places and spaces. But Microsoft on Thursday announced that it would integrate Photosynth with its Virtual Earth online mapping platform, encouraging businesses to combine the two technologies. As […]

Redmond, Washington — The Redmond, Washington, software major Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced plans to acquire “BigPark Inc.,” a fledgling interactive online video gaming company based in Vancouver, and co-founded and partly owned by Don Mattrick, the executive who runs Microsoft’s video-game business. Microsoft, in a statement, said the Vancouver-based video game maker will be […]

San Francisco — For those anxiously awaiting to crawl into the world of social news, then they can rejoice as Digg, one of the most popular social bookmarking web services over the Internet has finally opened up its service to Facebook’s more than 200 million users, through Facebook Connect, empowering anyone having a Facebook account […]

New York — As part of its continuous attempt to track everything you do on the web, search engine giant Google is now treading YouTube users further pushing those who sign up for YouTube accounts to embrace a Google account as well. “People signing up for YouTube accounts means automatically signing up for a matching […]

San Francisco — Of late, search engine behemoth Google has been persistently encouraging many of its products and service and that include its major bread earner… Google at its Inside AdSense Blog has just announced the launch of Google Ad Planner Publisher Center, which combines Inside AdSense, Inside AdWords and Google Analytics Blog accounts into […]

New York — Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, has introduced the much-awaited latest version of its jumbo-screen Kindle electronic reader device in a lecture hall Wednesday at the downtown Pace University. Dubbed as Kindle DX, the new e-reader device is aimed at readers of personal and professional documents, newspapers, and magazines — and textbooks, a potentially […]

Redmond, Washington — Facing the pressure from declining economy and reduced demand for its popular Windows and new competition from several quarters, Microsoft has begun its second phase of layoffs. The software major on Tuesday issued pink slips to more than 3,000 employees from its U.S. and worldwide locations as part of a previously announced […]

San Francisco — Exploring to widen the parameters of its online identities manager Socialthing social networking news feed service, AOL on Tuesday announced plans to integrate it in across corporate sibling Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG). The service, acquired by AOL last summer, is aimed at assisting users to trace the Internet activity of friends. […]

Mountain View, California — Undoubtedly, there still remains a large populace who do not use a Gmail account but still feel the need to organize their contacts, and seemingly Google is bestowing a favor toward them, too. Google Apps users and those seeking a safe, central, convenient spot for storing their contacts, can now rejoice […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Advertising has teamed up with Brand Affinity Technologies Inc., the company that provide U.S. advertisers access to athlete and celebrity endorsements. The companies claim that using BAT’s Platform, advertisers and agencies can effortlessly secure talent and launch national and locally targeted campaigns of all sizes and budgets with the opportunity to […]