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Despite the hopes of many, Mozilla made it official today that it will not develop a standalone Firefox browser for the iPhone. Instead, the browser-maker will continue to pour resources into Firefox Home for iPhone, its browser companion app. Mozilla said in a blog post: In fact, Mozilla’s announcement that it will expand Firefox Home [...]

A few weeks after starting a video series to promote the most popular searches in a given week, Google is starting a blog of sorts to promote its new products. Google New went live today as a directory of new products designed to help call attention to the new products Google launches at a dizzying [...]

Microsoft has begun adding public transportation directions to its Bing Maps service, with directions available initially in eleven major North American cities. “Transit options are available for bus, subway, light rail, and local rail,” said Brian Hendricks , an associate product manager for Bing Maps in a blog post Thursday. The cities covered in the [...]

Google’s legal department has another pressing case on its hands, this time courtesy of location-services provider Skyhook Wireless. Google was sued in both federal and state court in Massachusetts Wednesday by Skyhook over patent infringement claims as well as what GigaOm called “business interference,” according to its report. Skyhook is claiming that Google used its [...]

Google’s buying spree continued Monday with its purchase of Quicksee, a company blending home videos with geolocation services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the deal would cost Google around $10 million. Quicksee allows users to upload videos they have shot of buildings or public places and tag [...]

The official Google blog on Tuesday posted a link to an experimental music video for the Arcade Fire song “We Used To Wait” that shows off the capabilities of HTML5 with Google’s Chrome browser. I gave it a run earlier this afternoon. After I followed the instructions to close other applications and enter my home [...]

Microsoft’s Bing for Android may not technically be the first Microsoft-made app for Android phones (that honor belongs to the rather obscure Microsoft Tag Reader,) but the Bing is its highest-profile app. Released on Monday, Bing for Android closely resembles Bing for iPhone, with an image of the day marking the backdrop, and a pop-up [...]

In the physical world, people knowing they’ll be judged on appearances often prefer to put their best foot forward. But there’s a direct analog of the real world taking shape inside thousands of Google computers, a collection that began with addresses and roads and that’s extended to photos and 3D buildings. What do you do [...]

If Facebook Places catches on with the company’s 500 million users, Facebook could be sitting on a gold mine of local business listings that advertisers and users will love and Google will hate. As part of Google’s quest to pack useful answers into search results pages, it has built out a database of local business [...]

The camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets for Google maps. Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its “Street View” mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city’s privacy commissioner said was a first. Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its [...]