Surfers who use Google Earth can now view streaming video clips from a number of well-known landmarks and locales, including Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park and Colorado/Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, thanks to Discovery Communications. The new feature represents the first time Google has pushed video onto Google Earth. There are currently 10 clips of US national […]

A Bloomberg report says that Google has successfully tested ads on mobile phones in Japan. Deep Nishar, Google product manager, suggests ads on cell phones might be priced higher than the web because users are closer to making a purchase.
The piece suggests, but does not say, that ads are being delivered as part of Google’s […]

Microsoft has been quietly adding to its Windows Live portfolio of services to compete with products that Google and Yahoo have already established in the marketplace. Through its Waggener Edstrom public relations firm, Microsoft today confirmed that it’s readying two new searches: Windows Live Product Search and Windows Live Academic Search. Microsoft-dedicated beta testers and […]

Chen Shui-bian, President of Taiwan, urged multinational companies to put freedom of speech before profit when dealing with China. The President singled out Yahoo and Google by name. It was at a commemorative service for a Taiwanese human rights activist. Chen said there shouldn’t be any compromise in the fight for free speech.
“I call on […]

Google’s enterprise version of the Desktop search program allows IT departments to block certain features from their users. Matt Blotzbach, senior enterprise product manager at Google, said, “We recognize this feature might go against corporate information policies about not moving any information outside of the corporate network or PCs.”
Google recently released a new beta version […]