An external user took control of the address after Google employees accidentally deleted the blog. Google had egg on its face after staffers accidentally deleted the company’s main official blog on Monday night and a user unaffiliated with Google temporarily took possession of the Web address. Google admitted that it accidentally deleted its own official […]

Web search leader Google Inc. gained an additional 6 percentage points of the U.S. search market based on total queries, widening its lead last month against Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN, while a re-branded Ask.com is inching up, according to the latest statistics from ComScore Networks released recently. Google’s domestic market share rose to […]

Verizon’s online yellow pages directory, SuperPages.com, has forged a deal to use its advertisers’ excess budgets to purchase keyword ads on Google AdWords, and add the search engine’s main page to its list of external distribution partners. The deal will help its tens of thousands of marketers get ads onto Google search result pages, the […]

Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of the OpenDocument format as an international standard Microsoft this month joined the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, according to press reports, which has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage […]

Uncertainty over ability of SoftBank to buy company Vodafone is poised to pull out of Japan after admitting that it was in talks with the Japanese internet investment group SoftBank to sell its ailing mobile phone company there in a deal worth about £6bn. Sources close to the matter said the deal would be valued […]

Hollywood studios, seeking a way to foil piracy and looking toward life beyond the DVD, and turning Europe into a proving ground for new methods of digital movie distribution Universal Pictures, the movie studio behind “King Kong,” said it will offer the ape saga and other films on a “download-to-own” basis for the first time […]

Deutsche Telekom recently announced that it will use Microsoft’s IPTV Edition software to deliver TV service over broadband to millions of consumers throughout Germany. The alliance will enable Deutsche Telekom to deliver next-generation television, as well as complementary interactive services and a range of entertainment products, over its ultra high-speed VDSL broadband network. Under the […]

Internet search titan Google and athletic-gear superstar Nike have teamed up to create an online arena for football lovers, Google said. As the FIFA World Cup approaches, Google and Nike have quietly launched Joga, an invitation-only social-network website for soccer fans and players, which offers video, information on games and players and social networking Google […]

The technology is designed to allow users to share information between Web sites and desktop applications as easily as copying information to a desktop keyboard. Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie lately unveiled technology he called "Live Clipboard" for connecting Web sites and desktop applications using a combination of RSS feeds, other XML, and the […]

Verizon Wireless and TiVo recently announced a deal in which Verizon subscribers will be able to program the latter company’s digital video recorder through their mobile phones. TiVo, the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), and Verizon Wireless, owner of the nation’s most reliable network, of late announced […]