Google has recently launched its new voice search service in Hyderabad by means of a toll free number (1-800-41-999-999). This is in market after six months its text search for mobile users through 54664. Hyderabad people seem to be excited about the services and already started using it.

The service was exposed silently over last weekend and the news moved out in blogs. A Digital news site, contentsutra.com was successful in getting a spokesperson response from Google. “Google has introduced a pilot for voice search in Hyderabad. Voice enables us to reach non-web users in local languages, while still ever aging our core strength in search. We are focusing on our users and innovating for the needs of the local market. This pilot will enable us to get real user feedback to improve the service before a full launch,” Google said.

Google may expose its new services called BigTable this week. BigTable is basically based on the Google File System (GFS) and intended for sharing across thousands of product servers, which collectively store petabytes of data. Services that depend on it comprise Google Search, Google Earth and Maps, Google Finance, Google Print, Orkut, YouTube, and Blogger.

Public stated that they expect BigTable to be straight competition for Amazon SimpleDB – and we need to agree. The only thing that comes under consideration is about the pricing strategy. What is your opinion? Would Google make BigTable for free, or would it be competitively priced with the Amazon equivalent?

Recently, a Pennsylvania married couple has filed a court case against the big G for displaying their house in Google Maps “Street View” feature. Aaron and Christie Boring, said that the service directed to their home being accessible for online viewing, thus frightening their own privacy – the very cause why they purchased their house.

BBC stated – Google had got in the driveway of the couple’s private land, so as to take pictures to be put on the website. “Anyone can get Google to remove the images if they have a good reason to back up their request,” said Larry Yu, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We absolutely respect that people may not be comfortable with some of the imagery on the site. We actually make it pretty easy for people to submit a request to us to remove the imagery.”

After yesterday’s meet between senior Microsoft and Yahoo executives was ended without any further progress, Microsoft stays committed in its refusal to increase its bid for Yahoo, according to a person with directly associated with Microsoft’s thinking.

Microsoft, however, is increasingly getting irritated with Yahoo’s refusal to get in into negotiations, the person stated. But Microsoft is not taking into account to lower its offer or moving back it all together, the person added. Earlier media study suggesting that Microsoft is re-appraising its offer sent to Yahoo shares down about 5 percent in after-hours of trading.

“Microsoft has tried again and again to engage in substantive negotiations, but the board has simply refused,” the person said. “Since the offer was made, the market has deteriorated and there are numerous indications that Yahoo’s business has declined.”

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. senior authorities met this week to talk about Microsoft’s offer to obtain the Internet giant Company yahoo but were unsuccessful to determine any of their differences, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Microsoft executives had no interest to increase their cash-and-stock offer, and the Yahoo camp went on to say no to enter formal negotiations without a sickly bid, people known with the matter say. Yahoo’s board discarded Microsoft’s original bid in February, and Yahoo’s senior executive might see no point in investment talks on the basis of that offer.

Microsoft’s cash-and0stock offer was designated at $44.6 billion during Jan. 31, but a drop in the software maker’s share price has decreased the value to about $42 billion, or $29.29 a share. On Thursday, Yahoo shares traded at $28.13 at 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Exchange composite trading.

Microsoft is doubtful to augment its initial voluntary takeover offer for Yahoo, according to a review last week in the Wall Street Journal. Citing unidentified sources close to Microsoft, the WSJ reports that, with no feasible option offers for Yahoo’s business, augmenting the original $44.6 billion offer will now be equal to bidding against itself. In its place, the software giant’s plan is to remain tight and stay for Yahoo to end of practical options, after that it would agree to Microsoft’s initial offer.

On January 31, Microsoft had offered Yahoo $31 a share for its industry, or about $44.6 billion at the time and that Yahoo stated “considerably undervalued” the company. However, as that preliminary offer was joined in part to Microsoft’s stock price, and Microsoft’s stock price had been refused over the last two months, the offer now is worth just about $29 per share, or a couple of billion dollars less, give or take. Lets wait and watch what yahoo decides!

Google yesterday announced that it is initiating a new email service, which let’s you change/alter the time of any email that is marked as received by the future recipient. This new “Gmail Custom Time” could further be set as to the email appear either as read or unread in the apt chronological order.

The mark comes also with some limitations. Emails could be retrograded prior to April 1, 2004, the date Google started Gmail. Said Google in the statement: “If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born – crazy talk.”

Google is further limiting the use of this feature to only 10 times a year to avoid others from losing “faith in the accuracy of time.” Or, for that matter, faith in announcements made on the first day of April.

Internet search is the largest battlefield for Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but the battle is rapidly moving to a new face where the bets might be just as large Last year; Google opened a package of online products, which comprises word processing, spreadsheet and other e-mail software as an option to Microsoft Office, the longtime market dominator. Google’s aim is to be present at source for a collection of essential technology products.

Going up against Microsoft and its profitable software business is daring, for Mountain View’s Google itself. Already the head in Web searches and online promoting, it is hunting for methods to get bigger beyond its roots.

India’s main private broadband and land phone service provider Airtel Telemedia Services recently launched its web portal for its customers creating Google products formally obtainable on its portal for the first time now.

Customers would get free admittance to the company’s well-liked Google Apps messaging and teamwork suite that comprises Gmail email services, Google Docs for documents, spreadsheets and other presentations, Google Calendar, and the Start Page feature for making a customizable home page, a company statement stated. The services would further be co-branded and motorized by Google and Airtel broadband, it added.