Washington — Search engine giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are in discussion with the U.S. Department of Justice in an attempt to avoid antitrust concerns to their pending advertising agreement. Reports that the three sides were assembling first surfaced in the Wall Street Journal early Tuesday. The newspaper, quoting unidentified lawyers close to the […]

San Francisco — Google Inc., last week launched another attempt to transform its popular YouTube video sharing service into a profit engine, by teaming up with CBS Corp. to deliver new full-length TV programs via YouTube’s new Theater View style, which provides a larger video image, in addition to its shorter video offerings replete with […]

Washington — The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved a step forward, gave approval for a free nationwide wireless Internet network becoming a reality in the United States, as the agency said the potential interference with wireless carriers’ networks is minimal. The commission published the results of a study conducted in September regarding the potential […]

Either Google Germany’s lawyers are not able to snuff, or they are just trapped in a really hostile environment. A regional court in Germany, today ruled in favor of a photographer and an artist who complained that search engine goliath Google Inc., is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of their copyrighted images, according […]

San Francisco — MySpace on Monday unleashed the beta launch of a tool called MyAds, which it hopes to woo fledgling businesses and individuals’ operators with tight budgets to easily create, target and track the performance of their ads to preferred demographics on the world’s leading social networking website.

Voice-enabled search has been integrated into the Yahoo’s oneSearch 2.0 on select Nokia Series 60 devices, and for few selected BlackBerry phones since this last April, but until now only a few of you could try it out. Last week, Yahoo expanded its voice detection technologies into the oneSearch 2.0 home-page shortcut — available for […]