Google Street View in Google Maps is a good service to explore just about any location. Most of Street View is focused on landmarks and roads that are accessible to Google with its Street View car. Now Google has officially introduced its Street View trike, which is aimed at photographing pedestrian only locations. The Street [...]

Online video continues to gain in popularity and 161 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during August, the largest audience ever recorded, according to comScore. In August more than 25 billion videos were viewed, with Google sites accounting for more than 10 billion. Google sites remained as the top U.S. video property in August [...]

Americans of all ages continue to adopt a digital lifestyle, according to an annual survey of consumers’ technology adoption and attitudes by Forrester Research. High-definition televisions (HDTVs) and home networks were two of the fastest-growing consumer technologies in 2008. Over the next five years, 39 million U.S. households will get their first high-definition set and [...]

U.S. companies are increasingly concerned about a growing number of data leaks caused by employee’s misuse of email, blogs, social networks and text messages, according to a new survey from Proofpoint. Forty-three percent of U.S. companies surveyed had investigated an email-based leak of confidential information in the past year. Nearly a third of them, 31 [...]

Bing has helped Microsoft to modestly increase its search market share by 1 percent in the U.S. according to an analysis for June conducted by measurement firm StatCounter. Microsoft had 8.23 percent market share in June, behind Yahoo at 11.04 percent according to the analysis. Unsurprisingly Google still dominates the U.S. market but has fallen [...]

People are exposed to a variety of types of ads on a daily basis from television ads to online ads and more than half (55%) of Americans say they find current advertising to be interesting while 41 percent say it is not interesting, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive. Younger adults and those [...]

The United States continues to be the leader in spam, relaying 15 percent of the world’s spam messages, according to a recent report from Sophos that examines the top 12 spamming countries. The United Kingdom has disappeared from the “Dirty Dozen” for the first time in two years, coming in at 14th overall, and sending [...]

Microsoft has previewed its new search engine called Bing, formerly known as Kumo and is set to launch it on Wednesday June 3. Microsoft calls Bing a “Decision Engine” that initially will focus on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition and finding a local business. Microsoft [...]