Microsoft Shuts Digitizing Book Search Program San Francisco – Microsoft Corp. on Friday said that it is ceasing its quest to a project to scan millions of world’s books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, an initiative launched less than three years ago, as the technology titan revamps its strategy to […]

EU To Scrutinize Microsoft’s File Format Support “Microsoft has declared a new plan that will allow its Office software to save and edit files in a rival format will face a scrutiny by the European Commission.” Brussels – The European Union antitrust regulators reacted cautiously on Thursday said it would scrutinize a decision by Microsoft […]

Manila, Philippines — Hoping to attain dominance over its rival and search-advertising behemoth Google, Yahoo! Inc. introduced its keyword-based advertising service, pushing it new advertising platform into emerging markets in Southeast Asia, including the Philippines. The program widely known as “Project Panama,” this sponsored search marketing product leads highly-targeted customers to businesses by displaying their […]

If you are planning to launch your own Website, without any expertise in designing whatsoever, the Google has just introduced an easier way than ever. Search engine giant Google Inc. recently announced the extensive availability of the new Google Sites app. Since a small number of people use Google Apps, Google Sites -– which was […]

AOL Launches Video Portal In India, Taiwan, Canada New York – Time Warner Inc.’s Internet division AOL has made further progress in its bid to turn into a portal destination; today announced that it will launch versions of its video service in Canada, India and Taiwan as part of an aggressive global expansion.

“Facebook is all geared up for making a dramatic alteration to its Web site in a move it said will give users more control over the information they share with their friends.” Palo Alto, Calif., — Popular social networking website Facebook on Wednesday unveiled a major revamped profile pages introducing new navigation tabs to make […]

“It seems that Google is not the only one to find out there is big money in search; and now consumers will start getting some greenbacks too from Microsoft, its arch rival.” San Francisco — With its portion of the Internet search market declining steadily and its pursuit of an alliance with Yahoo dangling in […]

AT&T Inc. announced Tuesday that it is launching free wireless fidelity capability for LaptopConnect customers. LaptopConnect utilizes the company’s wireless network that enables customers to keep connected to e-mail, the Internet and business applications.

“Microsoft seeks to make headway on its online competitors by beating them in the mobile device advertising race.” Redmond, Wash., — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday at the inauguration of its annual online advertising conference — advance08 -– announced the availability of display ads across its popular Windows Live services on mobile devices. The company also […]

“Nielsen Online Announces April U.S. Search Share Rankings.” New York — Since a long time, Yahoo remained the U.S.’s highly-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine. But that trend has now changed as Google Inc. now becomes both the country’s top-visited website as well as the most popular search engine; surpassing Yahoo Inc. […]