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Google Unveils API for Google Analytics, Beta
2009

Google Unveils API for Google Analytics, Beta

April 22, 2009 0
New York — Google has just announced the release of public beta version of its Google Analytics API after running a private beta program with hundreds of developers for about a year. This indicates that developers will now be able to do all kinds of fun stuff with the program. With the launching of Google […]
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Google Labs Rolls Out Tools To Filter-Out News And Image Searches
2009

Google Labs Rolls Out Tools To Filter-Out News And Image Searches

April 21, 2009 0
San Francisco — Search engine Goliath Google Inc., perhaps anxious to feed its users with two unbaked Google Labs products, in an attempt to let users explore its latest innovation, on Monday launched two services, one for searching images and the other news, which allows Google users see news in graphical timeline, and scan for […]
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Qik Unveils Mobile Video To Facebook Connect
2009

Qik Unveils Mobile Video To Facebook Connect

April 21, 2009 0
New York — With vast number of companies battling the live-streaming wars, mobile service Qik has a new weapon in its arsenal: has introduced its own integration with Facebook’s video application to help users in the live mobile video space to publish their videos to the social network. Sending a Qik video stream to Facebook […]
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Google Researchers Experimenting Witn New Image “CAPTCHA” Method
2009

Google Researchers Experimenting Witn New Image “CAPTCHA” Method

April 20, 2009 0
San Francisco — After all these years, fending off bots from filling out forms automatically is a tedious task. Researchers at Google are have just released a report [PDF], which explores to find the perfect and more effective automated singups technique, which they call image orientation CAPTCHA. Earlier, undoubtedly we have seen those jumbled up […]
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The Butler’s Back: Ask.com Brings Back Jeeves With A New Face In UK
2009

The Butler’s Back: Ask.com Brings Back Jeeves With A New Face In UK

April 20, 2009 0
London — Rosy days are back again! If you can remember Jeeves, the quintessentially cartoon butler of the late 1990s and early 2000s, who serves up answers to search queries, saying its British users missed him after the company dropped him three years ago, is being brought back as the face of the Ask.com Internet […]
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Adobe Releases New Flash To Stream Web Content To TVs
2009

Adobe Releases New Flash To Stream Web Content To TVs

April 20, 2009 0
New York — From Desktop to the TV, Adobe Flash, a multimedia platform for integrating animation and video into web pages, aims to bring rich Web animation and video into consumers’ living rooms. The company today plans to announce its latest version of its Flash multimedia platform that will essentially put its technology in Internet […]
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YouTube Clinches Sony Content Deal To Stream Full-Length Movies, TV Shows
2009

YouTube Clinches Sony Content Deal To Stream Full-Length Movies, TV Shows

April 17, 2009 0
San Francisco — Google-owned video-sharing service YouTube, which has been shrewdly bundling up more professional content to a website that started as a venue for amateur videos, announced on Thursday that it has reached a deal with several major Hollywood studios to stream full length movies and TV show content to its users for free, […]
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Yahoo Finally Ditches Off Jumpcut In June
2009

Yahoo Finally Ditches Off Jumpcut In June

April 17, 2009 0
Sunnyvale, California — Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo, ditched one more of its unfruitful service to overcome the deteriorating economy. Yahoo, of late announced the closure of their Jumpcut online video service, and telling users to head to Flickr for making any new uploads. In December, Yahoo announced disabled new video uploads, but that they “will […]
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Ex Google.org Chief Larry Brilliant Leaves To Combat “Urgent Threats” At Skoll Foundation
2009

Ex Google.org Chief Larry Brilliant Leaves To Combat “Urgent Threats” At Skoll Foundation

April 17, 2009 0
San Francisco — Dr. Larry Brilliant, the physician who contributed greatly in eradicating small pox in Asia and was the founding executive director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the search engine giant, is altogether leaving the company to devote his time to manage a $100 million project at Jeff Skoll Foundation, which will focus […]
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Microsoft Attempts To Re-Energize Cashback; Merges Into Live Search Products
2009

Microsoft Attempts To Re-Energize Cashback; Merges Into Live Search Products

April 17, 2009 0
New York — Attempting to invigorate its less fruitful services, Microsoft lately announced that it has merged its Live Search Cashback into its shopping vertical search engine Live Search Products to garner a more useful and meaningful product search tool for users into a single experience. According to the Official Live Search Blog, the unified […]
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