A group of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers throughout the country has announced a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that wary newspaper business is rapidly increasing and willing to shake hands with the technology companies they once saw as a threat.

In the first phase of the deal, the newspaper companies would start posting their employment classified ads on Yahoo’s classified jobs site, HotJobs, and start using HotJobs technology to run their own online business ads.

MarketLive, Inc., the market giant of e-commerce retail technology and the services for Intelligent Selling ® on the Web, announced that the MarketLive platform would be delivering full integration with the recently announced Google Checkout (http://checkout.google.com). This would enable MarketLive customers to quickly and simply take advantage of the new checkout choice without any additional programming effort. For its part, Google planned this new ability to make online shopping faster and more convenient for its users.

A new Australian study recommended doctors to use Google to diagnose difficult cases even though the results are only 60% accurate.

The published work by British Medical Journal, suggested using Google because it is now a source of three billion journal articles, more effective than any specialist search engine.

The CIT310 (Linksys) is a cordless phone, which lets you make unlimited free PC-to-PC calls using your Yahoo Messenger with Voice based account. The phone then also supports Yahoo Phone Out (which allows you to make calls to any phone number with rates, which start at $0.2 cents) and Yahoo Phone In (which for $29/year let you assign a phone number to your PC).

Yahoo! India has recently got permission from the Indian Government to offer Internet telephony services across the country. The clearance would now allow Yahoo! to offer voice services for users of its instant messenger in India, according to a Yahoo! India spokesperson.

Yahoo! is now jumping on the food bandwagon by launching the “Yahoo! Food website”.

It is building a Web-based portal for food, as it already has for finance, sports, news, pets and a myriad of other subjects. Yahoo’s food portal carries experts such as Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck and Rachael Ray. It would also offer content from Epicurious.com, Food & Wine’s Allrecipes.com, cook’s Illustrated, EatingWell, Taste of Home, Reader’s Digest and few others as well.

Google is now with the idea of hiring scores of radio sales and also spending heavily in a bid to expand its place in the $US20 billion ($NZ30.2 billion) radio industry. Advertisers will now be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads with the help of same AdWords system they use to buy web search ads.

For those using Orkut, Google’s social networking website, you may notice new Google Talk integration next time you sign in.

Orkut user can now notice a new Google Talk integration in the website next time you log in. First thing user can notice is the online status of members, one can also send scraps to those contact and that will be displayed in their instant messenger.

San Francisco – Microsoft Corp. has improved its online mapping service that consists of three-dimensional protrusion of 15 U.S. cities to obtain an aerial view of their homes and neighborhoods. Later in months, Microsoft is expected to include more upcoming cities. A convenience that Google Earth doesn’t offer currently is the Virtual Earth Service which provides “Photorealistic” images, at Microsoft’s live.com site.

Google has officially announced their idea to enhance product search in their web search engine before end of this year. This happened during professional eBay seller alliance summit in San Francisco last month. This is a big move by Google and very soon it will be visible, and will substantially improve its entire product searching experience (Froogle).