Search giant Google has "blacklisted" German car manufacturer BMW for breaching its guidelines. Google has removed BMW’s German site, www.bmw.de, from its search index for allegedly engaging in deceptive tactics to increase its rating. Investigations by Google found that BMW’s German website influenced search results to ensure top ranking when users searched for "used car." […]

Voice over IP, online presentations and multiparty video conferencing are under consideration. America Online Inc. and WebEx Communications Inc. are teaming up to provide a business version of AOL’s popular AIM instant-messaging software.

20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Walt Disney, and Universal, are reported to have sued Samsung over DVD-HD841’s encryption bypassing bug. Seoul-based high-tech company Samsung Electronics Asia’s most valuable high-tech company is facing legal action in federal court in Los Angeles; from the big five US movie studios, which claims one of its DVD […]

Mainland authorities are investigating US Internet giant Google for launching its local service without the proper license, state press reported. Internet search giant Google’s controversial expansion into China now faces possible trouble with regulators after a Beijing newspaper said its new Chinese-language platform does not have a licence. The Beijing News reported that Google.cn, the […]

Users will be given a mobile phone with Skype pre-installed. Skype, the fastest growing Internet Communications Company and Hutchison 3 Group, the leader in 3G mobile services, today announced an agreement to enable Skype communications on 3G. The first company to announce a full-fledged deal with Skype has been Hutchison 3G who will trial the […]

Symantec plans to introduce a security product later this year that will take on Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows OneCare and Vista security technology. The software, code-named "Genesis," will integrate components of Symantec’s current security, PC optimization and backup products, the security company said. It will be sold on a subscription basis and will require an initial […]

Dell Inc. and Google Inc. confirmed that they are testing a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers, in a potential blow to Microsoft Corp.’s dominance of the desktop software business. "We are conducting a test of distribution of some of our software via Dell," Google spokesman Jon Murchinson said. Bob Kaufman, a spokesman […]

Giving the booming Indian online market its due, world’s largest search engine company Google Inc commenced its operations in the country by setting up two sales and marketing offices to primarily increase its advertising revenue by leveraging on local presence. At a press briefing in Mumbai, Google extended its operations here by announcing the setting-up […]

The two could earn millions but claim fee will reduce spam America Online and Yahoo Inc. will begin charging businesses to send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by the plan, set to start in several weeks, call it e-mail taxation […]

Deal enhances Windows Live services with innovative search solutions for mobile operators and their customers spanning work and play. Microsoft Corp., at the 3GSM World Congress 2006, announced the acquisition of MotionBridge, a leading provider of search technology designed specifically for mobile operators and the mobile Internet,