Google acknowledged that it erred last week when it posted on its Web site internal projections not meant for the public. The Internet search giant said that it inadvertently disclosed its closely guarded financial projections and also said it let slip information about a personal, digital storage service that is in the works. Google Inc. […]

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications lately announced a deal with Google to integrate the search company’s Blogger and Web search features into Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The two companies are the first in the industry to provide a pre-loaded blog application with a tight integration to the mobile camera and intuitive automatic set-up for consumers who […]

Voice and Video Usage Rapidly Increasing With MSN and Windows Live Messenger; Alliance Model Central to Integrating VoIP Capabilities Further Across Windows Live Services At the spring 2006 VON Conference & Expo, Microsoft outlined its vision for extending an integrated IP communications capability throughout Windows Live services to support VOIP and Video Strategy aimed at […]

Google will replace oil and gas producer Burlington Resources Inc in the S&P 500 Index, S&P said, sending the internet search leader’s shares up more than 7 per cent. On March 31, Google will become part of the Standard and Poor’s 500-index of US-based companies, a long-anticipated rite of passage that lifted the online search […]

Google is venturing into new Internet waters — again. Google’s quest to conquering the web rages on… How? Why, of course, by launching yet another web-based service. This time, it is something really beefy and it is likely to cause quite some fuss. The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator to beef up its […]

Ever on the prowl, Sun Microsystems has picked up a small patch management company called Aduva. Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Aduva Inc. recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Aduva Inc., for an undisclosed amount. Aduva Inc. specializes in keeping Linux and Solaris servers […]

America Online Inc. is soon rolling out upgrades to its Video Search Engine, expanding the index with 1.8 million videos from its recent acquisition of Truveo Inc., a company AOL acquired in December. The content joins 20,000 original and licensed videos, as well as 2.5 million videos indexed through AOL’s Singingfish search product. AOL bought […]

Google has teamed up with EarthLink in a bid to offer free wireless Internet access throughout the city of San Francisco and premium service for a fee, a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. Google and EarthLink have submitted a joint proposal to provide free "wi-fi," or wireless, service citywide, Google said in a written […]

After weeks of speculation, Microsoft’s latest subscription service for small-business users is set to enter wide-scale testing on February 15. Microsoft Corp. announced the beta availability of Microsoft Office Live, offering small-business customers a cost-free opportunity to experience the company’s new Internet-based software services firsthand. Office Live is a family of add-on services designed to […]

The (MPAA) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute files themselves. Some recent events brought news that the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 […]