EarthLink Inc. plans to begin offering a consumer high-speed Internet and online-calling package in three metropolitan markets in coming weeks through an expanded partnership with Covad Communications Group Inc. The company based in Atlanta, has partnered with broadband access wholesaler Covad Communications to offer the Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. EarthLink will offer the […]

Dell, the world’s largest computer maker, said it will set up its fourth call centre in India and scout for land for a planned manufacturing plant in Asia’s third-largest economy. The company said it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000. […]

Google Talk is now speaking to other Jabber servers; nearly six months after the company released the instant messaging application. Google Inc has opened up its Google Talk messaging network to open federation, meaning anybody will be able to interoperate with the service without having to sign a deal with the company. Open federation is […]

Verizon Wireless, owner and operator of the most reliable wireless network in the United States, recently announced the availability of GlobalEmail that gives Verizon Wireless business customers access to e-mail in more than 50 countries worldwide on the recently introduced Samsung SCH i830. The Bedminster, N.J.-based Company said: With GlobalEmail, Verizon Wireless customers can stay […]

US search engine agrees to government restrictions Firm admits inconsistency with its corporate ethics  Google Inc., the world’s biggest search engine, will team up with the world’s biggest censor, China; with a service that it hopes will make it more attractive to the country’s 110 million online users in order to gain greater access to […]

VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seattle-based CallVision Inc., a leading provider of online analysis applications for $30 million in order to improve its own lineup of products for service providers. The company said it intends to […]

Research In Motion has announced that Google Talk instant messaging and Google Local for mobile will be supported on the BlackBerry wireless platform. BlackBerry e-mail devices will soon support the Google Talk instant-messaging and Google Local mapping programs, the handheld maker recently announced, extending the Internet titan’s push to put its services on mobile devices. […]

The days of the traditional television set are numbered, according to Bill Gates. The Microsoft chairman said, while announcing a deal with BSkyB the British Satellite Broadcaster. BSkyB has forged a deal with Microsoft allowing it to launch a video-on-demand service for personal computers, extending its push into broadband and giving millions of its subscriber’s […]

Allow Drivers to Talk to Their XM Satellite Radios and Mobile Phones IBM is seeking to capitalize on its considerable research efforts by disseminating its speech recognition, language translation and speech synthesis software to users and software makers in a variety of industries.

Google released a beta of its Google Earth program for the Mac. Google has released a version of its Google Earth program for the Macintosh. Interestingly Google Earth for Windows ends its beta-test period, just as the Google Earth for Mac beta launches. The virtual Earth simulation software incorporates maps, driving directions, and satellite images […]