Improvements and additions to Windows Live OneCare Beta 1.5 include tighter integration with Microsoft’s Windows Defender anti-spyware software. Microsoft recently announced a new beta version of Windows Live OneCare. OneCare Beta 1.5, which can be downloaded and used free of charge, is available in 17 localized editions for countries that include the U.S., Australia, Canada, […]

Amazon.com has discontinued several distinctive features of its search engine, A9.com, including a search history that recorded all the searches ever made by a user, and mapping technology that captured street-level images of businesses in the largest U.S. cities, that were among its most distinctive features, the company confirmed. The A9 Toolbar, maps, Yellow Pages […]

If Google can make it here, it can make it anywhere. The company opens new digs in Manhattan. After a year of speculation, the company has officially opened a new, bigger and more Google-y office in the Big Apple in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan.

Yahoo Inc. and CBS Corp. — have agreed to show news clips from 16 CBS stations in markets including Denver, New York and Los Angeles. CBS and Yahoo will share advertising revenue generated by the clips, which will appear on Yahoo’s news site, the companies said in a statement. Videos from CBS, the top-ranked U.S. […]

Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion in cash and stock, the highest price yet offered for a consumer-generated media site, according to published reports. According to the newspaper, the talks are at a sensitive stage and could break off. YouTube […]

Google Inc. is introducing a new search service that only a geek could love. Search giant gives software developers a tool that lets them search billions of lines of source code. The Web search leader of late said that it is introducing Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming […]

Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program. Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world’s most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company’s products for it. […]

The offering is AOL’s latest push to move away from the pure Internet Service Provider business into the portal space to lure former subscribers back to the fold. AOL has recently launched free ad-based desktop software that combines its most popular services into one user interface, called OpenRide that creates a multi-pane view for Web […]

In a bid to shore up its management line, Microsoft has announced the acquisition of privately held DesktopStandard, a developer of group policy-based enterprise desktop and server management tools, in a move designed to help customers leverage the value of policy-based management and their investments in Active Directory, the two companies said in a statement.