San Francisco— Consider it as a belated Christmas gift or a New Year’s present, though just before New Year’s Eve Google surprised many websites with their Toolbar PageRank update rolled out to every website, which astonished many web publishers and bloggers talking about their changes in PageRank over the New Year holiday, Matt Cutts ultimately […]

New York — Soon before Christmas traffic statistics start pouring in; it is amazingly a rare occasion when we stumble upon news of this height, especially, even without those numbers, Google’s Product Search engine is reportedly catching up with big time rivals in the comparison shopping market instead of leading ahead of them. Well, if […]

San Francisco— This year’s holiday shopping season appears to be one of the worst in history. Despite retailers’ attempting to lure shoppers with deep discounts, failed to save the final week of holiday shopping was pretty much a bust, as sales dipped throughout most categories on decreasing consumer spending, according to a report from a […]

London— Have you ever imagined taking a stroll in New York City’s Time Square, all the while sitting in your home in UK? Well, having access to Internet, you can take that same stroll down the streets of New York absolutely free. No air fare, no jet lag, no translators needed. Search Giant Google is […]

London— Blighty’s culture secretary, Andy Burnham, seeks to impose an Internet rating system on English-language Web sites that mirrors movie-like ratings, and said that he would negotiate with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s administration team on drafting international standards for contents against indecency, violence, libel and copyright theft on the websites in a bid to better […]

Washington— US telecommunications giant Verizon, has been awarded a record judgment by a federal court in the Northern District of California for $33.2 million in a cybersquatting lawsuit against a shady Internet domain services company “ OnlineNIC” that claims to registered hundreds of domain names using Verizon name and trademarks. Verizon said the award was […]

San Francisco— The first beta version of Windows 7 — Microsoft’s much-anticipated next-generation operating system and substitute for the most troublesome Vista, which was expected to reach retailer shelves in time for the 2009 holiday shopping season, has apparently popped up on peer-to-peer network BitTorrent as an ISO file, making it available for anyone to […]

London — A team of eagle-eyed conservationists from Kew Garden have discovered a treasure trove of biodiversity in previously uncharted territory in the southern African nation while scrolling around internet map on Google Earth. “Hidden Paradise” Yields New Species The mountainous area of northern Mozambique in southern Africa – crowded with colorful birds, strange insects […]

A small Indiana based company called “Cygnus Systems” has lodged a patent violation case against three technology heavyweights Google, Microsoft and Apple claiming that it holds the patent on a common “file preview” functionality both in web browsers, and operating systems, which enables users to a brief preview of files before they actually opened them.

Beijing— Sina Corp., China’s major internet media portal, agreed to acquire core assets of Focus Media Holding Ltd.’s digital outdoor advertising networks business at a deal that could be valued at $1.37 billion in stock, a bold attempt to seek a growth engine for its advertising revenues. The deal announced late Monday demands Sina to […]