Ben Charny

Internet video and audio search specialist Blinkx will soon start delivering video programs for iPods and other handheld media players. Blinkxs new feature, to be unveiled Monday, lets people scan its database of professionally provided and home-made video and audio content, then sync what they find to their handheld media players. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read […]

Search giant Google Inc. is proving this week that it never sits still. Google on Friday announced millions of U.S. cell phones can use Google Gmail e-mail, ending a week of seemingly nonstop new initiatives. Double-time production schedules are the norm for Google, America Online, Yahoo Inc, Microsofts Internet division MSN and other Internet search […]

Yahoo Inc. said Thursday its opening a new research center in New York, its first outside the West Coast, and has an eye on adding more centers in the coming months. Yahoos New York lab will focus on initiatives such as “computers doing things on their own,” which an Internet search engine could use to […]

Technorati, a popular blog finder, on Thursday unveiled an online “kitchen” where users can have a go at half-baked features. The cupboard is a little bare right now, with just a news-finding application to play with. The San Francisco-based company has about a dozen features under construction, so expect more to show up soon, said […]

The city of Berkeley, Calif., isnt generally thought of as part of Californias tech hot spot Silicon Valley. Yet the quirky city known for its political edge and world-renowned university is suddenly attracting top technology leaders to within its borders. The main draw seems to be the University of California, Berkeley, the home of a […]

Thanks to recent moves by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsofts Internet division, MSN, Web developers are experiencing a spike in attention showered upon them. As Microsoft hotshot Steve Ballmers infamous wing-flapping “developers developers developers” rant made clear years ago, theres a time when every company relies on outsiders for important market-bending innovation. Companies thereby […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo Inc., America Online Inc. and several other online search giants support a relatively new idea to sync up bloggers with powerful Internet aggregators, says a source. There are now millions of Weblogs, which are Internet sites spotlighting someones particular take on a subject or stream of conscious rants on a number of topics. […]

Nearly all the raw material to run a fairly complex Internet search service is now available, for lease, from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. For a fee of as little as $1 a day, Amazon will provide access to an index of 5 billion Web pages plus the Internet-based tools to create new twists to mine […]

Various bloggers claim that Internet search company Google Inc. is about to unleash a calendar-style events manager, in its latest foray against software giant Microsoft Corp. Three different bloggers, citing anonymous sources, said Google Calendar debuts Wednesday, and it will have tie ins to Googles Gmail e-mail and Google Maps features. “Calendaring can be done […]

Yahoo Inc.s new Answers feature has a lofty goal: let Yahoo registered users assemble their own trusted, searchable source of online information. But something far less noble is bubbling to the surface in the features first few days. Rather than a “Wikipedia for the masses”, as Yahoo likens Answers, theres a lot of the same […]