“Spammers, beware! In a landmark victory as a California court awarded the social networking site MySpace astounding damages against a spammer.” San Francisco — Social networking giant MySpace said Tuesday that it has won a record-setting $230 million legal judgment against two illustrious spammers who bombarded its members with spam. A U.S. District Judge Audrey […]

Searching through all of those RSS subscriptions on a small screen can be quite a bit of a cumbersome experience, but to make Google Reader for iPhone even better, Google took advantage of the device’s capabilities and released a new beta version designed for the iPhone and other mobile phones with advanced browsers. “Google Reader […]

YouTube Begins Offering Ads With Buzz Targeting Early this week Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an alluded interview said that it plans to turn YouTube into a money-minting machine. And now Google is ready to share more details about its high priority of making more money off YouTube’s popularity, introducing an advertising product on Tuesday […]

Yahoo! has lately opened its own catalogue of geographic information, at a developer preview of its new Internet Location Platform, thus opening up new application opportunities for developers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications. As stated by Yahoo, the platform is “designed to facilitate spatial interoperability and geographic discovery; users can […]

“Google faces criticism that Street View is an invasion of privacy.” Burlingame, Calif. — Google Street View has long been picked on for invading people’s privacy that has led the world’s number one search provider to fuzz out the faces of people, responding to privacy concerns from the search giant’s all-seeing digital camera eye, including […]

 Microsoft Launches Windows Live Messenger TV In Europe London – Software giant Microsoft Corp., seeking to generate more revenue from Internet advertising, announced the launch a novel online Messenger TV service in as many as 20 countries that allows users to view video clips together with their network of friends and chat via Windows Live […]

San Francisco — People in the United States watched about 11.5 billion videos online, and Google Inc. sites ranked as the top U.S. video property in March, with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed, or a 38% share, according to data released Monday by comScore Inc. Google extended its supremacy in the area that catered […]

The barricades around social networking sites are at last crumbling as all the major players bring out their demolition crews. First MySpace announced data portability, then Facebook announced Connect, and now Google on Monday got dressed its own hard hat in the form of Google Friend Connect, promising regular Web sites to join the social-networking […]

Powerset Revolutionizes The Web Semantic Search San Francisco – Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset on Sunday launched tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, taking a significant step forward in its challenge to established Web search services such as Google. “It offers an innovative, rich […]