My Location is not a replacement for GPS, but gives mobile phone users a way to approximate their locations… San Francisco — Google on Wednesday has introduced mapping software that figures out the general vicinity using the company’s search algorithms to sift through information broadcast from cell towers and approximate a user’s location on a […]

Google is expected to launch an online information storage service in an attempt to become the central depository for the world’s digital data… “Web search behemoth Google is reportedly working on adding online data storage to its list of services. But, as frequently is the case with hosted storage — especially with Google — the […]

Google continues its seasonally aggressive Checkout campaign, offering discounts and special promotions in advance of Cyber Monday… “Behind the pitched Cyber Monday battle of online retailers is the battle of the payment systems. Both Google Checkout and eBay’s PayPal unveiled generous promotions today to increase their share of holiday spending…”

It appears that Yahoo has thrown some cold water on the hot online shopping day known as Cyber Monday… “Yahoo might not be as active in marketing their payment services as PayPal and Google Checkout are but they are still heavily used by shoppers in the US market…”

AOL, a division of Time Warner, and “Oneindia,” a leading Indian languages online portal, have announced a strategic alliance for powering content on AOL.in’s Hindi and Tamil language channels. “The language portals, aol.in/hindi and aol.in/tamil will now offer compelling content ranging from news, movies, sports and astrology to art and culture from various regions in […]

Earlier this week, Mozilla Corp. released the first beta of Firefox 3.0, claimed to pack innovative features and improved security tools… “A few months later than had been planned, Mozilla released on Monday night the first beta version of an overhauled Firefox, the widely used open-source Web browser. The beta release came amidst what looked […]

The co-founder of Hotmail has joined the rush to move office applications from the desktop to the web… “The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $US400 million ($459 million) a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $US20 billion office desktop business…”

“How popular can Internet be with the visually impaired? A lot, it appeared, as the visually challenged users in Bangalore navigated through the web with the help of a screen reader.” Visually impaired people, who frequently need to use the Internet, find that the only option that helps them operate- speech software- is actually incompatible […]

New effort to challenge Google & Yahoo in UK mobile market… “AOL’s new British mobile portal is said to provide an experience closer to that of the desktop portal, and should more closely match the US version…”

With the arrival of Google Street View in Australia, concerns have been raised concerning potential transgressions of people’s privacy… “Take extra-special care of your appearance when walking around Australian capital city streets this summer, as one nose pick or bum scratch could be immortalized on Google Maps forever…” Google’s occasionally controversial Street View product is […]