Google, as a company, tends not to take sides on matters not concerning their domain; i.e. issues other than those related to information access, technology and energy. However, they made an exception to this rule and have spoken out against the constitutional amendment banning the marriage between individuals of the same sex.
The reason for their […]

The Google–Yahoo! deal has ruffled the feathers of several advertisers and publishers. In an attempt to try and smoothen things Google has launched a ‘facts site’ consisting of 17 slides, which try to explain the significance of this deal.
They have tried to prove that this deal will not only be harmless, but will actually be […]

Yahoo! has just unveiled a new advertising platform called APT, which they had announced was in development last year under the name AMP. The announcement was made on Wednesday, during the Advertising Week media event held in New York City.
APT is a display advertising platform. Yahoo! believes that once the platform is made available, it […]

Following all the hullabaloo after the Yahoo! board of directors refused Microsoft’s offer to buy them over, and the threats led by investor Carl Icahn, to replace the entire board of Yahoo!, the headless chicken that is Yahoo! is now looking at merging with another collossal sinker, AOL.
When the newly constituted Yahoo! board met for […]

In keeping with their aim to make information available to all, at all times, Google has now added another feature to their repertoire. Street Views on Google Maps will now be accessible to mobile phone users.
To start with, this service will only be accessible on BlackBerry and some Java enabled phones, but they hope to […]

Hardly one year after it was launched, Yahoo! Mash will be shutting down. The experimental social network aspired to be a potential competitor to the hugely popular social sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but fell far short of this lofty target.
Matt Warburton, Yahoo’s community manager, sent an email to all Mash members in this […]

Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year.
They have already started […]

With the manifold increase that audio and video have recently gained on the Internet, it is becoming extremely difficult for users to find exactly whatever it is that they are looking for. In order to make the task simpler, Google has launched a speech recognition tool that enables searching within audio and video files.
A similar […]

In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations.
O3b stands for the ‘Other 3 Billion’ who do not live in Western society and […]

The U.S.A. has now caught up with Western Europe in adoption of 3G technoloy. A new report from comScore has found that it is a neck and neck race between the two regions now, with 28.4% of U.S. mobile users and 28.3% European mobile consumers using 3G technology.
The 3G industry has grown almost 80% in […]