Google Inc., always coy about future plans, is showing stronger signs of interest in online retail. Google is attempting a significant push into the European retail industry with plans to launch a service aimed at giving traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers a base from which to market and sell their goods online. Much of the company’s interest […]

A U.S. Federal Judge said on March 14 that he is inclined to allow the government to see snippets of Google users’ search habits. The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.’s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the […]

Microsoft finally put an end to feverish speculation sweeping the technology world by unveiling the small portable PC it hopes will take the computing world by storm. Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its “Origami” project, a paperback-book sized portable computer, which is a hybrid between a laptop PC and a host of mobile devices that the […]

Time Warner’s America Online division is preparing to sell programming on its Web site by the middle of this year, a top AOL executive said, hastening a move to secure a position in the market for video-on-demand over the Internet. The expansion of AOL’s video service, which will combine free and pay-per-download shows from established […]

Motorola Inc. lately said that it will combine its two wireless equipment operations, the latest move by Chief Executive Edward Zander to streamline the company In the name of seamless mobility advancement, Motorola plans to combine its Networks and Government & Enterprise Mobility Solutions entities into one unit, a move claimed to be in anticipation […]

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 […]

In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his Web site in search results. Although a minor victory for the company, which faces numerous suits charging that […]

Microsoft hopes to have superior search engine technology compared to Google within the next six months Microsoft will soon introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said in a statement. Microsoft wants badly to beat Google at its own game […]

Less than two weeks after launching its official operation in Israel, search engine giant Google announced plans to open a new research and development facility in the northern Israeli city of Haifa–its first R&D center in the Middle East, the company announced in a statement. The R&D center will open during the second quarter of […]

If you think maps are just for driving directions, think again. Google is adding graphical advertisements to maps on its local search site, foreshadowing the use of its pop-up balloons for various types of information and activities, an analyst said. Google Inc. recently began displaying advertising images right on its maps, allowing advertisers to display […]