San Francisco— As the much glorified Consumer Electronics Show is geared up to begin this week, Samsung Electronics , a South Korean consumer electronics leader, seeking to take advantage of what researchers call a robust IPTV market, on Monday announced that it is teaming up with

Mountain View, Calif., — Four years back, Google courageously embarked on a project to scan every printed book, defying the protests from Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers — paving the way for Google books. Nevertheless, a settlement last October with the major players now makes it possible for Google to pay itself […]

New York— Search engine goliath Google continues to hold its supremacy above all other competitors in the search race, while searches at rival Microsoft’s Windows Live Search site has in fact dropped over the past year despite luring people with cash to use its services, according to the latest figures released on Monday by Nielsen […]

Beijing — China, the world’s biggest Internet market by users, today announced nationwide plans to initiate a major crackdown against popular websites, including singling out the dominant search engines Google and Baidu, which officials accused of spreading pornography and vulgarity, by China’s Ministry of Public Security, as part of the latest Net Nanny campaign, reports […]

Mountain View, Calif., — Developers who have lost enthusiasm to develop applications for Google’s mobile Android platform because apps have only been available for free should now have the reason to rejoice in 2009, as Google now plans to help Android applications developers earn 70% of the revenue through its Android App Market this year, […]

New York— Facebook, the popular social networking website has filed a lawsuit against Power.com , a Brazilian start-up service has bumped into a problem in its pursuit to build a business that allows users to control all their social network profiles across multiple sites (Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, etc.), through one portal. This initiative on […]

New York— On the eve of Christmas, hordes of internet surfers joined the social networking site such as Facebook and Google ahead of watching the Queen’s speech, according to research data. Figures revealed that one in 22 website viewings in Britain on 25 December were of the site.

San Francisco— Search engine giant’s unrelenting effort in offering the best of products and services is again set to launch the Google Reader API — that is possibly just months away from being released to the public. Web-cracker and blogger Niall Kennedy — recently posted on his site several details covering the earlier undocumented Google […]

New York— Witnessing a steeply declining economy, a layoff is not a surprise. But a layoff of 15,000 people and that too from Microsoft, is surely surprising. Unconfirmed vague rumors of huge Microsoft layoffs have gathered momentum with one site making specific claims. The latest to stake the claim on the possibility of layoffs at […]

Redmond, Washington— As always its mapping, search, and location Cloud applications are concerned, Microsoft is winding up 2008 with nothing short of a bang. The Virtual Earth Blog announced that not only did the Redmond company have taken the Holiday celebration to a whole new memorable level by putting up Santa Claus’ North Pole village […]