Barcelonan — With more than four billion mobile phones in use globally, Nokia, the leading mobile device maker, on Tuesday at its annual Nokia World conference in Barcelona, has announced the latest versions of its upcoming mapping and navigation platform, along with a new messaging service in an effort to build out its mobile services. […]

New Zealand — Search engine giant Google Inc. on Monday unveiled its controversial “Street View” on Google Maps in New Zealand, making it the seventh country that the popular on-the-ground mapping service is available in. New Zealanders can now take a virtual view of their homes and streets from today, but faces of people have […]

San Francisco — Social networking giant Facebook said it is geared up to expand its new website called “Facebook Connect,” the long anticipated universal log-in service, to integrate functionalities with more third-party Web sites, now seems to be collecting more steam. Originally announced on the Facebook Developers blog this summer, during the social network’s second […]

San Francisco — In a move expected to fuel speculation over Yahoo Inc.’s search for a new chief executive — Corporate raider and billionaire investor Carl Icahn augmented his stake in Yahoo, has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet Company over three days this week, paying around $67 million, according […]

London — Yahoo Inc. last week agreed to alliance with Virgin Media Inc. under which Yahoo! oneSearch will exclusively power the Internet search experience on Virgin Media’s 4 million mobile subscribers in the U.K. Yahoo has managed to succeed Google in securing this new deal as they wish to stay competitive in the mobile search […]

New York — The sphere of patent lawsuits has moved out of control. The most latest and bizarre patent lawsuit issues from EMG Technology, LLC, who has filed suit at the US District Court in Tyler, Texas, alleging that Apple’s use of a system that shrinks pages to fit smaller screens, which it says infringes […]

San Francisco — Many people who love watching their favorite television programs live and are often saddened when they miss out their much loved television shows, but now they need not feel bad about it. Also if you have the tendency of forgetting to schedule your TiVo DVR box, and only remember while out and […]

Los Angeles — Google Maps on Wednesday released a greater redesign and the new street view also received some user interface changes that are pretty fantastic and much more prominent. The latest release now lets users to drag a little human figure named “Pegman” over any streets that light up blue and get a preview […]

New York — Search engine giant Google Inc. has started to feel the chilling effects of the drooping economy, is in the process of axing down a contractor workforce that numbers about 10,000, the company confirmed Monday. Behind the scenes Google has been cutting off workforce since August, and that number is expected to climb […]

San Francisco — Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking Web site, has been awarded $873 million in a landmark judgment against a Canadian resident accused of sending more than 4 million sexually explicit “spam” messages from members’ profiles, many advertising male enhancement drugs. The judgment was issued in federal court in San Jose, Calif., on […]