Yahoo sees potential in real-time search
Yahoo has just entered into a long term search deal with Microsoft which would see Bing power their own search engine in the coming days.
The company however is now looking at real time search functionalities which is becoming more and more popular.
Yahoo representative Prabhakar Raghavan said that they are [...]

Alexander Macgillivray leaves Google for Twitter
Google is losing their senior executives at a rapid pace.
Alexander Macgillivray is the latest on the list who has now left Google to join another company.
Alexander Macgillivray has now joined Twitter as their new General Council.
He is yet to join Twitter as the official dates are not [...]

Michael Jackson death: Twitter once again dominates MSM
Mainstream media once again lost out to social networking services like Twitter and Facebook to spread the news about the dead of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson is one of the most loved musicians in the world and it was pretty visible on Twitter streams.
As soon as [...]

HTC innovates Google Android with Sense on HTC Hero!
HTC is one of the companies which made Windows Mobile phones look cool.
They are now one of the biggest manufacturers of Google Android mobile phones in the market as well.
The company has just introduced Sense User Interface for Google Android which would ship with their HTC Hero [...]

Bing, Live.com and Hotmail blocked in China
Microsoft has confirmed that several of their web properties are currently blocked in China.
Microsoft’s just launched Bing search engine along with Hotmail webmail service and Live.com are all blocked.
Microsoft said: “Microsoft’s Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China. [...]

Palm Pre to feature Twitter search inbuilt
Palm has been releasing some new information about their upcoming smartphone model Palm Pre.
One of the exciting features is that the Pre would work with Apple iTunes.
Pre owners would be able to sync DRM free media files from iTunes to Pre without any third party software.
Another interesting feature [...]

SearchMerge: Latest social search engine in town
We have already seen a variety of search engines emerging in the market. Most of them are focused on social search and live streaming of results.
SearchMerge is yet another player in the market with some specific features which are not seen in other engines.
It enables you to conduct searches [...]

Twootles: Search Google and Twitter in one go
Twootles is a simple but useful web service that makes it easy to search for keywords on both Google and Twitter together.
It uses Google Custom Search along with Twitter search functionality to show the search results side by side.
Basically, that’s all it would do. The developers say [...]

US Army is now on Facebook and Twitter
US Army has announced the establishment of their Online Social Media Division.
They have created a fan page on Facebook social networking service and are also now present on the Twitter micro-blogging site.
US Army spokeswoman Lindy Kyzer spoke about the new developments: “Young people today don’t watch the [...]

Rumors say Twitter is in talks with both Google and Microsoft
AllThingsD has reported that both Google and Microsoft are in talks with Twitter for a possible advertising deal.
Twitter is currently free of any form of advertising.
The service is very much in news for its explosive growth and potential uses in real world scenarios. [...]