Global internet search engine Google Inc. has set up shop in Australia with big plans to stem the country’s brain-drain problem. Google has set its eyes on the nation’s top IT talent as the company looks to rapidly expand numbers in its Australian operation. The Google Australia head of engineering, Lars Rasmussen, said there was […]

Speaking in tongues for $2.99 a minute Skype, the global Internet communications company, Language Line Services, the world’s leading provider of language services, and Voxeo, the leading provider of standards-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) platforms, recently announced a joint solution that makes it easier than ever for businesses and individuals to communicate […]

Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) and Apple Computer Inc., of late announced hit television programming from FOX, FX, SPEED, FUEL TV and 20th Century Fox Television library is now available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store.

San Francisco’s BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing site that became popular for offering free, illegal downloads of pirated movies and television shows, said that it has struck a deal with Warner Bros. to make some of those same films and shows legally available online.

The head of the world’s largest chipmaker has unveiled a new low-cost mobile personal computer designed to provide affordable, collaborative learning environments for teachers and young students around the world. Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini said the $400 machines—code-named “Eduwise”—will feature built-in wireless and will be able to run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows or the […]

Question-and-answer community integrated into main search results Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, lately announced the general availability of Yahoo! Answers, an online community where people can ask and answers questions on any topic. Yahoo aims to improve its general search by adding information from its Yahoo Answers service into the list of results.

Look out Google and Yahoo, Microsoft is getting very serious about search. The Internet search-advertising wars are getting hotter: Vowing to catch up to industry leader Google, Yahoo lately demonstrated an overhauled advertising system that promises to generate higher revenue and enlist more clients.

Google will soon begin selling video advertisements on the web, opening a new front in its battle for a bigger slice of the online advertising market. Google is seeking to take the pay-per-click model it refined for text ads and apply the approach to video, cleaning up a nascent market where irritating splash ads distract […]

Beta of Rich Communications and Sharing Tools Is Available Worldwide A new version of the popular Messenger communications client from Microsoft was made available to the general public. The new Windows Live Messenger beta is available for download at the Windows Live Ideas Web site, http://ideas.live.com. This latest version remains in beta and has but […]

The online video market is exploding, and AOL this week purchased a D.C. company with expertise in placing ads in the emerging platform. AOL LLC, signaling the importance online video will play in drawing visitors to its ad-supported Web sites, has purchased a small company that specializes in inserting advertising into video clips. AOL of […]