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 [...]

comScore has released a study focusing on Google’s strong position in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. Google sites ranked as the most visited Internet property globally with 854 million unique visitors in July, an increase of 18 percent during the past year. Google usage is more common in certain global markets [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Online retail sales in the U.S. may have reached the bottom for 2009, but a return to double-digit growth of previous years is unlikely with the current economy, according to comScore. In a Webinar about the online economy in the first quarter of this year, comScore compared zero growth with a 3 percent drop in [...]

Sears Holdings has announced the launch of social networking sites MySears and MyKmart. MySears and MyKmart allow users to share their insights, experiences and product reviews by creating a dialogue between the retailers and their customers through discussion forums, blog entries, ratings, reviews, polls and surveys. Users can create a profile, upload photos, share experiences [...]