Google Inc., the Internet search provider that wants to make every published book readable online, launched new features for “Google Book Search,” that allow users organize, annotate and lets Web visitors search through the titles in their “My Library” list. With My Library, users can create lists of links to books and articles in their […]

Microsoft’s suite includes the first public beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery… Seattle — Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday a suite of “Windows Live” online services bundled into a single download in its latest effort to compete with Google Inc’s growing array of applications delivered over the Web, including the global betas of several of […]

Members will have the option to keep their name and picture private, or make them available to outside search… “Internet users can now search for Facebook members on the Facebook site without logging in.” Riding a wave of phenomenal growth in its user base, social networking site Facebook, in a bid to increase member numbers, […]

Operating System conjurer Microsoft has officially delivered the first release of Silverlight, its answer to Flash, AJAX and friends… Redmond works with Novell to port “Flash killer” Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the commercial release of Silverlight 1.0 “Flash killer” — a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the web, and the […]

Los Angeles — NBC Universal has reached a deal for online retailer Amazon.com Inc. to sell television show downloads, it said on Tuesday, just days after the media company pulled the plug on a contract with Apple Inc’s. iTunes. “Days after its dispute with Apple over the price of its TV shows’ on iTunes, NBC […]

Yahoo! Inc., chasing Google Inc. in the online-advertising market — plans to buy BlueLithium for $300 million, acquiring the fifth-largest U.S. ad network… San Francisco — Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced that it has struck a deal to buy BlueLithium, the fifth-largest U.S. online ad network, for $300 million in cash, in the latest move […]

Internet giant, Google Inc., which is reported to be designing its own mobile handset product, may also have its eye on the wireless payment market… Adding to its rapidly growing suite of mobile applications and services, the search giant has just published a patent application for an SMS text message-payment system, ostensibly dubbed “GPay,” which […]

Bloggers have discovered a secret flight simulator in the latest version of Google Earth… Would it not be cool if you could fly around Google Earth in a jet! “Google recently added Google Sky to its Google Earth application, we know. What we do not know is that the latest version (4.2 beta) of Google […]

Google Inc. has settled a lawsuit with “American Blind & Wallpaper Factory” over its search ads, bringing a four-year long dispute to an end… San Francisco — The plaintiff in a long-running trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. agreed on Friday to drop its case targeting the Web search advertising leader’s core business, about whether […]

Late Friday afternoon, the Federal Communications Commission rejected a nearly 16-month-old petition by Menlo Park, Calif.-based M2Z Networks to receive an exclusive, 15-year license to build and operate a national wireless network in the 2155MHz-to-2175MHz band that would offer both free 384Kbps broadband with the option of paying for higher speeds. “In return for the […]