Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to minimize the language barrier between people of different countries, global search engine behemoth Google is making it easier for Gmail users to communicate with others who speak a different language with an automatic message translator. The web giant early this week announced on the Official Gmail Blog, that […]

Redmond, Washington — With Windows 8 just around the corner, software maker Microsoft on Wednesday said that it is finally prepared to discard its “Windows Live” moniker for the company’s suite of online services like mail, messaging, syncing and account management.

Mountain View, California — Tired of Arial, Times New Roman and Courier? Well, typography enthusiasts may find some reason to rejoice fonts galore! Google wants to spruce up your documents with 450 new fonts. “Often the best way to deliver your opinion across is to present your idea in a creative, captivating way,” they say […]

Los Angeles — Striving to keep its ever growing audience to spend more time interacting with new apps, popular social networking giant Facebook on Wednesday, launched “Action Links,” the next step beyond the “action verbs” for users of its service to interact with Timeline apps running on top of the Facebook platform.

Redmond, Washington — Relentlessly attempting to outwit its arch rival Google, software maker Microsoft’s Bing team on Wednesday branding it as a “fresh, de-cluttered experience,” launched a new design of the page that reveals a more streamlined layout with a focus on the search results in the middle and related searches on the right by […]

Los Angeles — Barely days after releasing significant updates to its iPhone and Android apps, the popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter on Tuesday announced that it launched a new version of its “Discover” tab, which will attempt to present relevant news stories to users, based on tweets from people followed by the primary account holder, a […]

Redmond, Washington — In a novel turn of events, software monopolists Microsoft Corp is jumping into the highly booming e-books market by investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, giving it a 17.6 percent equity stake in the company. The Nook digital bookstore will be bundled with Windows 8.

San Francisco — Just when things were finally cooling down for Google in the Street View debacle, as more information has been leaked, and now it seems as though Google Inc. would not be able to cast away the Street View privacy scandal in its rear-view mirror any time soon. Ironically, a recent report from […]

San Francisco — Have you ever imagined about visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam or St. Mark’s Basilica in Italy without taking the long trip, right from the comfort of your own home? Sewing together pictures to make them worth more than a 1,000 words, Google over the weekend introduced photo tours, offering armchair […]

Los Angeles — In order to safeguard its 900 million plus users from online attacks, social media leader Facebook last week forged an alliance with five top notch security vendors (Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec) and an anti-virus marketplace to provide improved security for its users and to protect its members’ data as the […]