San Francisco — According to latest statistics, Americans have watched more online videos than ever, a record-setting 14.3 billion during December 2008, representing a growth of 13% vs. November 2008, according to data from comScore Video Metrix service.

New York — Facebook has become the latest board member to join the OpenID Foundation, the open user-authentication system, following the footsetps of tech giants such as Google, IBM, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo and VeriSign in a drive to give internet users a single digital identity to access many of the web’s services. Social networking site […]

San Francisco — Members of a consumer-privacy group are criticizing Google Inc.’s recently launched mapping application feature that allows users to share the locations of their friends, family and employees an “unnecessary danger” to users’ security and privacy, the group says it envisions five scenarios in which the Google Maps add-on could be abused. Google’s […]

Los Angeles — Microsoft Corp’s Web portal MSN on Thursday embarked on a crowded field of online entertainment and celebrity news , taking the wraps off a new website known as Wonderwall.com, a scrolling wall of star photos and news meant to give users the feel of flipping through a celebrity magazine. Microsoft partnered on […]

New York — The ubiquitous tech powerhouses have inked a partnership deal to develop a service that empowrs people who use Google Health to automatically stream data from medical devices — such as those used to monitor glucose levels and blood pressure — into their personal online health records. The companies announcing the partnership Thursday […]

San Francisco — The search engine collossus has leapfrogged with a new episode in its book digitization adventure, with a small but significant step both for expanding the reach of its massive library and supporting smartphones as a viable e-book platform with Thursday’s release of a long overdue mobile version of Book Search for the […]

New York — Many people have sent an email while angry, exhausted, inebriated or just by mistake that they later regretted. Now, Google has developed a stable of new features to lure users away from Yahoo’s email service, including one that makes it easier for users to organize their inbox, allowing them to add labels […]

San Francisco — As part of its ongoing effort to energize and intensify its search engine to compete with Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has started testing a new project called “Search Pad” intended to help users effortlessly acquire in-depth research and help you keep track of your results to complete important tasks. Yahoo on Wednesday […]

Mountain View, California — Have you ever wondered in a chaotic situations to find out where your friends or your spouse or your child is? Or just wish to satisfy obviate your worries about your daughter safely reached the library or not? These are the question Google Inc. hopes to answer for you with an […]

San Francisco — Search titan Google Inc. today announced the release of an updated Google Toolbar for Firefox plug-in with a number of new features that surrounds it and in the offing brought the Mozilla created browser a step closer that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google’s own Chrome. The new Toolbar — […]