Ben Charny

AOL this week began selling TotalTalk, which is part of a recent wave of renewed interest in Internet telephony from AOL and its major competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo. TotalTalk is a revamped version of a VOIP (voice over IP) service America Online Inc. first introduced five years ago. It features three calling plans for a […]

Search giant Google appears to be aggressively moving to include more classifieds listings in search results, a market analyst said Wednesday. In the past few months, Googles been courting major providers of classified advertisements, including online listings of employment opportunities, and may have already signed deals with some of them, according to Classified Intelligence, an […]

Search giant Google has merged two of its Web destinations, Google Maps and Google Local, a sign online mapping features are of growing importance to the search industry. Google Local searches based on a type of goods or service and a location. Google Maps provides maps, driving directions and elements of Google Local information. The […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Analysts watching search giant Googles every move came away unimpressed from the announcement of Googles new partnership with Sun Microsystems. Many came to a Google Inc./Sun Microsystems Inc. news conference here expecting to hear Google declare war against nemesis Microsoft Corp. by releasing a computer operating system of its own. Instead, analysts said […]

Speculation is mounting ahead of Tuesdays upcoming announcement of a new relationship between Sun Microsystems and Google, but the most attention is going to the possibility of a software-related deal. Some commentators approached by eWEEK said they would not be surprised if the search giant formalizes its plan to take aim at Microsoft Corp. and […]

In a potential blow to Microsoft, Netscapes Internet browser will be included inside every new Hewlett-Packard and Compaq computer sold starting early next year, Netscape said Monday. The arrangement allows for those buying new Hewlett-Packard Co. or Compaq consumer personal computers to choose Netscape as their default Web browser and to start the Web browser […]

Internet search giant Yahoo, along with several universities and two European archives, say they intend to make books available on the Internet later this year. The entities, known collectively as the OCA (Open Content Alliance), represent how major search engines like Google, which has a similar project called Google Print, now emphasize the quantity of […]

Blogger/entrepreneur Dave Pell has unleashed a way to build your own miniature Google. Each Rollyo, as the personalized search engines are known, is accessed through the Rollyo Web site, and then scours up to 25 Web sites of your own choosing. Rollyos can be made for private use, or opened to the general Internet public […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Long-suffering sports fans dismiss each disappointing season with the lament “wait until next year.” The cell phone industry is no different when it comes to getting people to use their handsets Internet connection to search the Web. Despite a bevy of new technology and services, searching the Internet using cell phones is, for the […]

Google Inc. claims its search engines scour three times more Web sites than Yahoo Inc. and other nearest competitors. Its difficult, however, to compare the size of search engines indexes of Web sites, given that some listings are inaccessible or duplicative. Google, which made the claim late Monday, said it now plans to stop publicly […]

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave some Internet telephone operators a quasi-reprieve and others a few more weeks time to meet new emergency dialing requirements. The rules set to take effect Wednesday, but no longer, impact operators doling out VOIP (voice over IP), a burgeoning new industry for dispensing the software and hardware to turn Internet […]

By finding a more precise way to target an audience, Microsoft becomes a serious challenge to Yahoo and Google, the leading suppliers of the ads alongside Internet search results, a Microsoft analyst believes. On Monday, Microsoft Corp. said its on track for an October U.S. debut for adCenter, a process advertisers in Singapore and France […]