With a view to challenge Amazon.com, leading search engine Google has planned to start distributing and selling e-books on behalf of its publishing partners.  Google's e-book sales service will come into effect later this year. According to Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker, the company has ...

Microsoft announces its new web search engine called “Bing” as an answer to Google. This has been in the wake of the growing popularity of its rival, Google. After an exhaustive research, Microsoft finally decided on “Bing”. This will be replacing the ...

Yahoo on Thursday (May 21) introduced its social news site Buzz in India. The company stated that over 60 percent of Internet users in India are below the age of 25 years and the popularity of Internet has been rising day by day. Yahoo found out that there is a lot of interest among users in social ...

Leading social networking site, Facebook has launched Indian language interface on Thursday (May 7). With the help of the new interface, people can navigate Facebook in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Malayalam. The social networking has recently announced that it's user base has ...

The government of India has tied up with software giant Microsoft Corp to combat Internet threats. A website titled ’secureyourpc.in’ has been jointly launched by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Microsoft which aims to provide vital information to internet users ...

An Internet library called World Digital Library was officially inaugurated at UNESCO's Paris Headquarters on Tuesday (April 21). The new UN Internet library aims to digitize world's cultural heritage. World Digital Library will display and explain the wealth of all human cultures through the ...

The video units feature, through which publishers could show YouTube content and video ads on their pages, is now being eliminated by Google AdSense. Google has announced that the existing AdSense clients will have their feature eliminated by the end of April. As for the new clients of the revenue ...

There is some good news for all Indians, who always wanted to email their friends and family in their native language. To realize this idea, Google has launched a new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type out emails in Indian languages. Now users can see an icon with an Indian character while ...

In this world of instant communication, how we wish (at times) that we could get back the e-mail, SMS or chat we just sent. While stopping your SMS or chat is not a possibility right now, you can surely stop an e-mail, which you feel that you shouldn't have sent in the first place, but only if you ...

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft decided to implement a new web standard which will enable millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. The joint web cleaning initiative will also help the search engines to come out with more comprehensive search results. According to Matt Cutts ...

With a motive to provide information on Internet and computer to general people, Google India on Tuesday (February 3) launched a unique Internet bus in Tamil Nadu. The new Internet facility-enabled bus called 'Google Bus' made its inaugural journey from Chennai. The 'Google Bus' will tour 15 towns ...

Leading Internet search engine, Google in collaboration with NASA released a new Mars mode in Google Earth. The new mode will enable the users to get a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of planet Mars. The Google Mars 3D also offers the researchers to share data in addition to enhance the ...

The wireless web access products and services provider company, Datawind Ltd has launched PocketSurfer2 in India. PocketSurfer2 is an ultra-thin hand-held device that can enable a user to surf the Internet on the move. The device weighing only 174 grams allows the users to access 12 web pages at ...

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif has become the most searched for person in the world’s leading search engine, Google. According to Google country head Vinay Goel, the most searched celebrity Katrina Kaif is more popular in Pakistan than in India. YouTube became the fastest rising term in 2008 ...

Google has decided to take the initiative of making the old magazine available online. To fulfill its plan Google has entered into agreements with dozens of publishers. The new service from Google will allow the users to browse magazine covers and to delve into individual issues, which will be ...

In an effort to make itself a popular starting point for Internet consumers and providing easy access to services and relevant information Yahoo has agreed to sign a deal with Virgin Mobile. Once the formalities are over, around four million virgin subscribers in Britain would get to make use of ...

One of the leading online portals of the country, Rediff.com India Limited on Wednesday (November 26), launched its new “Web-in-mail” service. With the introduction of the new tool, users can access internet content using email clients like MS Outlook, Outlook Express and ...

Los Angeles based real estate company EMG Technology LLC has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. claiming that a technology the iPhone uses to surf the Web infringes on a patent obtained last month by founder Mr. Gottfurcht and his co-inventors.
The lawsuit, filed by EMG Technology LLC on Monday in ...

The IT world is abuzz with the news that Microsoft Inc will relaunch its Windows Live Search under the new brand name, Kumo. The term Kumo is a Japanese word that stands for cloud or spider. According to reports, Microsoft has taken control of the domain name Kumo.com from its registrar and ...

Microsoft has transformed its Windows Live site into a social networking by offering several online services. The Microsoft live site incorporates feature like photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging facility. According to experts, Microsoft is trying to follow the path of Yahoo by building its ...

Google Inc has introduced voice and video chat features in its existing Gmail email service. With the help of the new features, the users can talk to their friends on a video screen. Instant messages can also be sent through Google chat box. The size of the video screen can be changed according to ...

In order to upgrade its Live Search service, Microsoft Corp has entered into a deal with Sun Microsystems. Under the new agreement, MSN's toolbar will have the Java software of Sun Microsystems. Microsoft has been suffering losses in online search market while its rival, Google is doing a great ...

Google and Yahoo had to bid goodbye to their proposed advertising deal following a judgment of the US Justice Department. Google and Yahoo alliance was viewed as a threat to other advertisers and because of their strong protest, the justice department had to pass such a judgment. The worst sufferer ...

With a view to compete with its rivals, Microsoft India has announced the launch of its map search services in India. With the help of Microsoft's Live Search Maps for India, the users will be able to acquire loads of information regarding geographical locations, places of interest and business ...

Google Inc has decided to postpone its advertising deal with Yahoo Inc so as to provide U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. The agreement has been delayed for a period of three months. By that time, the regulators will examine whether the alliance of two IT majors affects the ...

In order to combat Google in terms of Internet searches, world's leading IT major Microsoft has planned to offer redeemable points to its consumers for using its search services. The new programme named SearchPerks will give tickets to those who enroll into it and use the Microsoft's Live Search ...

How about getting 10 million US dollar for sharing an idea? Well, Google has announced to offer 10 million US dollar as prize money to those who can provide the best ideas that can be transformed into products. Google has organized a competition where it asks the people to submit ideas in seven ...

In order to bring billions of inaccessible people all over the world under the same umbrella, the father of World Wide Web, Tim Berners announced the launch of a World Wide Web foundation. The newly formed organization will also devote efficient time and effort in studying the working procedure of ...

According to a Reuters report, the first mobile phone featuring Google Android operating system will make its debut with the launch of T-Mobile in USA on September 23. The release of Google Android operating system is eagerly awaited. But Google and T-Mobile are yet to confirm the launch ...

After the ground-breaking launch of Google's Chrome browser last week, Firefox is now out of its siesta and is geared up to launch Firefox 3.1 browser. This innovative browser will include private browsing feature which prevents recording of web site visits by the browser. This feature — ...