Last Minute Shopping with MSN Shopping’s Procrastination

Procrastination Central from MSN® shopping at shopping.msn.com now offers last-minute shopping stores, which can deliver gifts on time of holidays for shoppers. Through this shoppers will have a peace of mind by knowing that their gift would arrive on time. Procrastination Central allows people do their holiday shopping with tools, which make it easy to browse, select, purchase and as well to deliver gifts for their loved ones at perfect price.

Shoppers have a chance to compare more than 30 million products from over 8,000 existing stores all at one place. This site features a new online coupons section as well that is updated everyday and offers amazing gift for Him, Her, Baby, Kids, Teens and Pets with ideas for Hot Gifts under $25, Romantic & Sexy Gifts, Stocking Stuffers, and Editors’ Picks. Further shoppers will find free, expert buying advice given by Consumer Reports and MSN’s own staff of editors to help shoppers find the great values.

Google Toolbar 3 for Firefox

The new version of Google Toolbar for Firefox now adds up the new features those were accessible only in IE toolbar and is a special bonus.

One can now bookmark sites without the help of third-party tools (anyhow some may have more advanced features) and one may even add custom buttons, which would let you search other sites and read their feeds as well.

This latest version of Google Toolbar really makes it easy to send snippets from web pages via email and SMS. The greatest news of all is through this you can now open files from the web using Docs & Spreadsheets. You could further drag and drop your files from Windows Explorer to Firefox or associate documents with Firefox. Here’s the list of available formats: .doc, .rtf, .odt, .xls, .ods, .csv, .sxw.

Google wins patent for search results page design

This week design of Google’s search results page had earned U.S. patent protection, it brings the sum number of patents that were held by the search giant to three dozen.

Design Patent No. 533,561, was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday, and covers “the ornamental design for a graphical user interface” as shown in numerous screen shots of the Mountain View based company’s search results pages.

The screen shots describe lists of the Google’s search results, with blocks of news related and even sponsored advertising links at the top. A graphic of the word Google, speaks out with multiple o’s corresponding to the number of pages of search results returned, is centered at the base of the page.

More value for Google employees

San Francisco – Today Google carries lot of brilliant minds, but even these brilliant employs have difficulty in knowing how much their stock options are really worth.

For the purpose of simplifying the task the company plans to create a new online market, which would display how much sophisticated investors are eager to pay for the company’s options. This shift of transferable stock options is likely to schedule during forthcoming spring.

“We think this would be very valuable in helping our employees understand what they own right from the beginning,” said Dave Rolefson, Google’s equity and executive compensation manager.

Google is up with U.S. Patent Search

Google is very happy on release of new beta version of Google Patent Search; this makes it easy to search the full text of U.S. patent mass and look for patents that impress you. You could further explore your self at www.google.com/patents or http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search to search by criteria, including patent number, filing date and inventor. You can also view images of original patents online.

This natural extension of Google’s mission is just to make this public domain government information accessible to all users using Google search technology. It has been started with over 7 million patents granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and it also look forward to expand its coverage over time.

Fox Pan American Sports Teams Up with MSN

Fox Pan American Sports and MSN partnering up on a Hispanic online sports site http://msn.foxsports.com/fse.

The two companies added that the site “would become the primary Spanish language sports content destination on the MSN network and would also provide its users with extraordinary access to Fox Sports en Espol’s and Fox Sports Latin America’s year round lineup of the most significant sporting events around the globe.”

Philips and MSN offer film trailers online with Ambilight

Recently Philips has collaborated with MSN Movies to offer the prime online movie trailer in Ambilight. To make things even better these trailers are offered in HD with Ambilight backlighting.

Visitors to Ambilight online experience on MSN Movies would provide two to three new trailers added every week from chief Hollywood studios including 20th Century Fox, Universal, New Line Cinema and few others. This is a three month trial in U.S. but might be expanded internationally in the future.

This launch also agrees with the production of the one millionth Ambilight television.

Yahoo Instant Messaging Gets Plug-In from WebEx

Santa Clara, California – WebEx, provider of businesses applications on-demand had developed a new plug-in for search engine, Yahoo Messenger! designed to enable instant messaging users to “co-browse” and view websites on same time. The free plug-in provides the ability for online shopping, party planning and picture viewing. The new WebEx co-browsing plug in could be easily assessed from Plug-in Picker within the Yahoo!

With the free plug-in, Yahoo! Messenger opened up its platform for third party developers to make add-on applications for further personalizing the end user’s experience. WebEx developed the co-browsing plug in for the purpose of enabling Yahoo! Messenger’s global users to interact during live web searches. WebEx provides on-demand collaborative applications to individuals, small businesses and for enterprise organizations.

WebEx is currently based in Santa Clara, California and has regional headquarters in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Yahoo! Partners With New Zealand Telecom

Recently Yahoo! through a joint venture with 7 Network in Australia have partnered (54/49%) with Telecom New Zealand Ltd. The statement clearly discloses that Yahoo is aggressive towards a move to grab global market share. Its move into India and the roll-out of YSM in the country is underway at the moment also.

Yahoo! extends its content deal with ABC

ABC News is now a part of Yahoo! News premiere video content partner by the expansion of their current deal.

Now ABC News would double the amount of content it gives to Yahoo! News as well as include clips of breaking news, additional features and interview like video segments from “Good Morning America” and “20/20”.

This deal extends its relationship between ABC News and Yahoo! News that began in September 2005 and provides ad-supported video free to Yahoo! users. ABC News video would further continue to be integrated all through Yahoo! News – including its front page and other particular sections on the site and pertinent story pages but would be showcased more prominently.