Redmond, Washington — In fresh move that tempts existing users to upgrade to Windows 8, software behemoth Microsoft on Monday announced a promotion that upgrading to the next version of Windows just got cheaper: The software giant knocked down the upgrade price for users running Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, later this year will […]

San Francisco — It appears that these days everyone is dipping its toes into the hot mobile mapping game. And today, Amazon entered the cartography pool as it is building up its presence in the mapping business, endorsed a deal to acquire 3D mapping startup UpNext, GigaOM has learned. For Amazon, which does not have […]

Mountain View, California — In a latest push to empower its user with more knowledge, search engine titan Google has released some interesting details on its Inside Search blog that it has made improvements to its search by image tool that will improve the accuracy of results more useful and help users find more insightful […]

Los Angeles — Popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter and business-networking site LinkedIn in a surprising move ended their nearly three-year partnership today, when LinkedIn announced that it will no longer integrate tweets.

Mountain View, California — Recently after releasing its flagship Android tablet and its official iOS apps for its Web browser and storage service, search engine giant Google is prepping a new set of Analytics usage reports designed especially for mobile applications, the company announced at its I/O developer conference over the weekend.

New York — In a latest furore on the social networking site Facebook, as users of the popular outfit are grumbling about their new unified e-mail and its unilateral implementation that is causing unwanted changes to users’ address books; worse, the changes have gone unnoticed by users and vital communication is being lost.

  Mountain View, California — In a novel display of innovation entering into an increasingly crowded and fast-growing market, Google opened fire on Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire with a Nexus 7 tablet designed to showcase the latest Android software and optimized for content from Google Play including books, games, TV shows, movies, apps, […]

Sunnyvale, California — It appears that Yahoo is serious about reclaiming it lost glory as it continues to strike partnerships with large traditional media brands. On the heels of its recently announced partnership with Spotify, Yahoo on Thursday said it is teaming with Clear Channel to offer its iHeartRadio digital radio service on the Web […]

San Francisco — Flying high cutting through the sky and stuck up with Google Docs online? Well, now the search engine behemoth wants people to stop thinking its Web-based apps are susceptible to flaky networks. At the second day’s keynote of its annual Google I/O developers conference on Thursday, Google announced that it is adding […]

Sunnyvale, California — Prominent Web portal Yahoo just on Tuesday tapped the hot music service Spotify to fill the gap left open when the Silicon Valley Internet media company killed its Yahoo Music Unlimited, said that it will be integrating Spotify internet radio service into its websites as part of a quest to reinvent itself […]