Pittsburgh Google office opens

Google had officially opened its Pittsburgh engineering office at Google Pittsburgh on November 17.

This office is situated in the lower part of Collaborative Innovation Center, it’s a four story building constructed in 2005 to give place and lab space for businesses for collaborating purpose with Carnegie Mellon. The purpose of the recent renovations was just to customize the space in Google’s requirements.

Google comes with teacher’s online software

Google is up with its new software applications in kindergarten through high school classrooms, where kids who have knowledge with web are more likely to experiment with different technology.

Mr. James McQuivey, a former Forrester Research analyst says; “It’s the perfect place for them to target the coming generation of computer users”. The free software approach poses confront to Microsoft Corp, whose actual success revolves around sales of its all time dominated windows operating system and office suite.

Google now Invests in Indoor Mesh

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG – message board) is now working with few early-stage startup Meraki Networks Inc. on indoor mesh technology. Google invested in Meraki, the search giant said to have “relatively small” six-figure investment in Mountain View, Calif., start up. According to a source Google would test the box with business that is between its Mountain View WiFi mesh coverage areas.

MSN up with New Holiday Site

MSN has recently launched the holiday site, MSN Holiday Challenge at http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com, concentrating on this holiday season in style with the help of four celebrities who would also share video clues with consumers for a chance to win a share of $100,000 (U.S.) in cash prizes.

This great promotion gives the customers an opportunity to win grand prizes of $50,000, $20,000 or $10,000 or even daily cash prized with MSN online content scavenger hunt. The promotion has started and last on 20, Dec 2006. Rules of this contest can be found on http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com/rules.

A Deeper Look into Yahoo! Panama

This year’s Las Vegas PubCon, Yahoo! fully exposed its new “Panama” search marketing platform. Mona Elesseily of Page Zero Media had a chat with WebProNews Mike McDonald about Panama and what more changes and additions advertiser could expect from the new software. Mona is one of the finest authorities on the Yahoo! search marketing platform, and is the creator of Unauthorized Yahoo! Search Marketing Handbook.

ANA Providing Yahoo With Research Numbers

Yahoo has launched with a new advertising portal ANA (Association of National Advertisers), that provide with report summaries and other reports and data collected on variety of topics to the site.

It’s Yahoo’s toughest site and a place for guest editorials and showcases of industry award winners. This site will include the points of view of seasoned professionals and the learned commentators that are out there.

Yahoo! To Create Brand Mini Sites

Yahoo Inc. is now planning to launch mini-sites for more than 100 popular brands in 2007, and it will be the collection of social media sites called “brand universe”.

This site within Yahoo will serve as an online social destination for fans of games, movies and other products to congregate and share and connect with each other. Yahoo is now hopping that their brand universe will drive more traffic and advertising revenue to sites.

Google Spreadsheets API now available

Google Spreadsheets is up with its newest application to use called GData API. Its library allows programs to use Google products even outside Google environment. According to Google, with this new Spreadsheets API you’ll be able to:

• view spreadsheets
• edit/delete content in spreadsheets
• request a list of existing spreadsheets
• query a spreadsheet’s content

Nokia Partners with Yahoo on New Mobile Services

Mobile handset maker Nokia stated this Wednesday that it has extended its partnership with Yahoo to include the search giant’s services on a few selected set of Nokia phones.

The company would also begin rolling out the new Yahoo options with the Nokia 6300, 5200, and 5300 XpressMusic phones. The handsets would let users synchronize Yahoo available contacts, tasks, and calendar items, and will also connect to Yahoo Mail and Messenger.

Yahoo launches Mobile Social Networking Service

Yahoo had recently launched an experimental site, which offers mobile phone subscribers the power to send any text messages and also share videos and pictures with their friends. The service of Yahoo still follows the trend among Internet portals to offer mobile social networking services.

The service is basically centered on making it easy for friends group to use text messaging as a way to organize a party, meet in a restaurant, attend a football game or may be to arrange any other social activity.