Ben Charny

Google has something cooking with Cognos, which provides business intelligence and corporate performance management software and services. According to a source, Cognos is set to unveil a new Internet search feature April 19 that involves a partnership of some sort with Google. Additional details weren’t available. Cognos, a publicly traded company, claims to serve more […]

Microsoft this week revealed it’s at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras. So rather than using a keyboard to enter an Internet search query, people can e-mail Microsoft a camera phone photo of what they’re searching for. Photo2Search, as Microsoft calls the nascent feature, returns Web […]

Microsoft this week revealed that it is at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras. So rather than typing in an Internet search query, someone can e-mail Microsoft a photo of what theyre searching for. Photo2Search, as Microsoft calls the nascent feature, returns Web pages either with […]

A financial analyst is questioning whether Google is using its features to promote its content and services, and in a way that conflicts with its advertisers’ interests. For example, Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post writes of discovering how a link to Google Finance, Google’s new financial information site, is the top paid advertising link returned […]

There’s a new mystery to solve for fans of “The Da Vinci Code” who also use Google’s personalized home page feature. Google says it’s taking part in the marketing blitz for the “Da Vinci Code” movie by conducting a contest. Each day between April 17 and May 21, a puzzle based on the best-selling religious […]

Internet search giant Google introduced a free calendaring and day planner feature on April 13, one of the search giants moves to challenge chief rivals Microsoft and Yahoo. Google Calendar contains all the usual bells and whistles of such features. But Google has added a few new wrinkles, such as being able to share listings […]

Google Calendar is finally up and running after months in development. Some new features include being able to share calendar listings with friends, a tight integration with Google’s Gmail e-mail, a built-in search tool to find events, and cell phone text messaging notifications while on the go. With the move, Google leaves very little doubt […]

There’s a move afoot to significantly reduce the number of votes that Google co-founders Sergey Brin, Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt and others get to cast at Google shareholder meetings, according to this stock filing. If successful, the new voting scheme would significantly reduce the influence Google’s top executives now have at the meetings, and […]

Microsoft on April 11 unveiled a new Internet search engine to locate scholarly material, as it steps up its features war with rivals Google and Yahoo. Windows Live Academic Search, as the feature is known, “has some unique features, and is a worthy competitor,” said Dean Giustini, a reference librarian at the University of British […]

Vozin Communications, which makes Talqer, seems to be the perfect future Google acquisition target. The free Talqer download, now available, lets someone use the Google Talk instant messenging app to make and receive calls from traditional cell or land-line phones. In May, Vozin is going to introduce a $12-a-month unlimited North American calling plan. Google […]