Barcelona — Adobe Systems Inc., which widely distributed the use of video and animation on the Web, clutched the opportunity at the Mobile World Congress event on Monday to make a raft of announcements aimed at promoting its new full-fledged version of Flash software that runs not only on computers but also on the latest […]

San Francisco — Last week, the struggling Sunnyvale, California web portal disappointed the fans of MyWeb, announcing that its four-year-old web bookmarking service, will be discontinued from March 18. The company is now encouraging its users to continue using other Yahoo! bookmarking services instead. A visit to the sites homepage will welcome users with the […]

Mountain View, California — Barely a few months back, Google had the SEO industry contemplating over the future of search when it introduced SearchWiki — user controlled search results. Well now Google is testing a SearchWiki for AdWords feature [Do not like it? Shut it down] that empowers users to conceal unwanted ads in search […]

New York — The Redmond Vole, after years of dismissing the notion, has finally announced plans to open its own chain of retail stores to display its own products, at a time when many other retailers are struggling in the economic downturn. The company aims to sell computers installed with Microsoft software and other products, […]

Redmond, Washington — A Los Angeles woman has slammed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, over claims that the software maker is allegedly violating anti-competitive behavior over a $59.25 charge for downgrading her Windows Vista PC to XP. For Microsoft’s legal department, as Yogi Berra once observed, it must seem […]

Mountain View, California — Ever since Google introduced spreadsheets for mobile phone, the company has been constantly attempting to improve its functionality, and up until now users were only able to read the spreadsheets, but last week Google announced an improvement to the mobile version of Google Docs, which now includes the ability to view, […]

New York — Following the footsteps of other Google properties such as Gmail and Calendar, YouTube today announced that it is planning a pliot project to offer its visitors download videos to computers as an alternative to watching clips streamed over the Internet. The site is formulating partnership with content providers to give users downloadable […]

San Francisco — It is so unusual to witness the unity among the top three search titans in a given corporate field. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have joined together to extend support to a technique by which a little extra code in a Web page can indicate the address of its “canonical” version–essentially, the original, […]

Redmond, Washington — If you cannot have them, hire them, is the latest Microsoft’s goal as it continues to poaches search talent away from Yahoo. The Redmond Vole on Wednesday confirmed that it has hired Larry Heck, another Yahoo executive to its online services division in an attempt to increase its competitive edge in the […]

Helsinki, Finland — Google Inc., on Thursday said intends to build a data center on the site of an old paper mill in Summa, Hamina, Southeastern Finland, that it acquired from Stora Enso for 40 million euros about ($51.7 million), and replacing it with a data center. “We are currently planning to build a data […]