New York — IBM Corp., the world’s third-biggest software maker, will soon enshroud Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Live SaaS suite, with the recently introduced LotusLive, as an attempt to lure new customers by tapping into so-called cloud computing, which it describes as a portfolio of integrated Internet-hosted services for social networking and collaboration in workplaces. IBM’s […]

San Francisco — Google might have squeezed funds for its techie’s pet projects, but that does not thwart the company’s desire in seeking new ways to move closer towards offering personalized results, Google on Monday announced that it is experimenting with a new search feature called “Preferred Sites,” which will register the preferences of its […]

New York — People who are constantly on the go and hardly find time to get themselves updated on the current news, the Windows Live Search blog has recently announced a ‘News Alert’ feature that enables users to have news delivered to their email, daily, twice daily or weekly. The service is analogous to Google […]

Mountain View, California — Google TV Ads has partnered with SpotMixer, an innovative online video advertising service of One True Media, Inc., is now offering free tv ad creation with a self-serve video ad creation solution for Google AdWords customers to produce and distribute cable television ads via Google TV Ads. This is a very […]

San Francisco — For the first time since the software giant withdrew its takeover offer last May leaving the deal in limbo, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy J. Bostock met in New York last week; just two days after Yahoo named Carol Bartz its new CEO, according to a […]

San Francisco— Boob Tube watchers can now enjoy watching YouTube right in your living room on your big-screen television. YouTube on Thursday introduced YouTube for Television, a section of the site with a new user interface designed for easier viewing on TV screens. YouTube announced that it has with Sony and Nintendo to place YouTube […]

San Francisco— According to fresh reports coming in, Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. is seriously considering reducing its workforce across various divisions and could announce the plans next week, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the company’s plans. Citing unnamed sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the newspaper said the […]

New York— Back in the days when the internet was in its infancy, every next person was excited to have an e-mail address, but today the scenario has completely changed as nearly every tech company is looking out for the holy grail of new services, software, SaaS options or enterprise 2.0 solutions. Lately, MySpace has […]

New York — AOL has announced a series of developments that it expects will expand, reposition and monetize its digital publishing business in 2009. AOL’s 2005 acquisition of Weblogs, a company that was host to dozens of blogs, provided a template for the low-cost publishing strategy. It has developed a novel business unit, MediaGlow, which […]

San Francisco— In a spate of different posts on various official Google blogs late Wednesday evening, the company’s long knives has take its imminent toll not only on some of its employees, but on a batch of products too, some more broadly available than others: Google Notebook, Dodgeball , Google Catalog Search, microblogging service Jaiku […]