San Francisco — On one occasion or another, everybody sends an email, but noticing some mistake as they hit the “send” button and wanted to call it back. And search engine giant Google Inc. last week added a new feature to its Gmail service called Undo Send, a Gmail Labs experiment that offers users the […]

San Francisco — Sony Corp. has made an alliance with Google Inc. to provide more than 500,000 public domain books scanned by the search giant to users of its electronic book reader, Sony said on Thursday, greatly increasing the amount of available content on the device. The deal would certainly catch the attention of Amazon, […]

Las Vegas — After failing to win the market share to Firefox and other rivals for years, Microsoft Corp. early on Thursday at the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas for Web developers and designers, announced the availability of the final version of its next generation Internet Explorer 8 with enhanced security features that is more […]

London — Google Inc.’s controversial “Street View,” service that gives Internet users panoramic street-level view has appeared in 25 cities in the UK and the Netherlands with new technology to address people’s fears of being captured in the Internet search leader’s images. Street scenes in 25 UK cities from Aberdeen to Southampton can be viewed […]

San Francisco — Google’s recent privacy flaw with Google Docs may have caused a concern for their customers and it may even make them think twice whether or not to store sensitive data with Google’s cloud computing services. An online privacy advocacy group on Tuesday asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to probe the adequacy […]

Las Vegas — Software behemoth Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off the beta version of Silverlight 3, which reduces the gap between desktop and web environments at the MIX 09 conference for web developers in Las Vegas, and also unveiled a large number other technologies, all intended at luring Web developers to the Microsoft […]

Austin, Texas — MySpace, the world’s dominant social portal, today unveiled plans to enhance its data portability system with new functionality for MySpaceID, a product that will make it easier for users and developers alike to access the MySpace social graph, enabling any user to securely link their profile, friends, and activities with their favorite […]

Los Angeles — Yahoo Inc. on Monday unveiled plans to launch the latest in a series of web show, “Spotlight to Nightlight,” a fort-nightly original video program centered on the lives of celebrity moms and sponsored by State Farm. Yahoo executives assert that they have discovered a sustainable model for making original video online, in […]

San Francisco — Moving rapidly to fill the vacant post, just five days later, search engine titan Google Inc. on Tuesday announced the appointment of “Dennis Woodside,” its top advertising executive from UK to replace head of American advertising sales and operations Tim Armstrong, who is leaving the Mountain View, Calif.-based company after 8 1/2 […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo’s search marketing division is invigorating their service, on Monday announced the addition of three new enhanced targeting options to its search marketing advertising solution, in an attempt to give its partner advertisers more returns for their investment. The enhanced features which will be enforced on Yahoo Sponsored Search include demographic targeting, […]