Microsoft has announced that the work has been completed to combine its MSN Messenger instant messaging network with Yahoo! Messenger. From today the services have combined 350 million users who could communicate to those on the other network as well. The combined network is now the worlds biggest.



Since Google bought a stake at AOL earlier this year, the two companies have also spoken of combining Google Talk and AIM as well although not timetable for integration has yet been announced.

The launch of Google Checkout will take place after Google celebrates their eighth year anniversary. It is quite easy to imagine that Google has been around for a longer than this, such their ripeness and global reputation.



Google would now officially start their mission to beat the world of online payments. Google Checkout's main aim is to course of transactions whilst determined to enable merchants on more selling and less spending. To set up access to Google Checkout you should own a Google Ad Words login or a Google account.

Google Inc today had launched an Australian version of its video hosting site, Google Video that would feature a range of content from the local media groups. The site follows the set-up of the existing global video service but would still distribute short and long-form media from providers such as ABC, Network Ten and even Fairfax Digital.

This would carry television programs, news updates and other entertainment. Google Video also allows users to upload and download video and share it with other users, post media to blog sites such as MySpace.

At present it is competing with other popular video providers such as YouTube.

SAN FRANCISCO - Online video is now no longer just for fun and games: You may really learn something out of it. The University of California at Berkeley informed that it uses Google Video to deliver college courses, including lectures and other symposia, free of charge, the first university to have its own featured page on Google Video.

The site is at http://video.google.com/ucberkeley, Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and campus officials said in a statement.

As a first offering, the university has put up an amazing library for more than 250 hours of video for public viewing. Most of it was not available online previously, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement.

Google Online Video is a comprehensive index of free and paid, user-generated and also professional video content. And also will be available on range of public events and academic symposia on topics ranging from climate change to synthetic biology. The campus is set for adding more material to the Google Video site in coming months, it said.

Google is now in partnered with the "Complutense University" in Madrid to make thousands of Spanish books available online for public access. The two organizations have decided to digitize the university library's out-of-copyright books by placing some of the greatest books of Spanish literature on the web. Plus its collection of Spanish-language public domain books, the university would also make accessible works of Spanish historic importance, with numerous books in French, German, Latin, Italian and English.

"Complutense University" is the first Spanish partner to join Google's Library Project. Google Book Search is already working with the New York Public Library and the universities of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and California.

MSN India has recently announced the portals of five different Indian Languages. The new portals are MSN Hindi, MSN Tamil, MSN Telugu, MSN Kannada and MSN Malayalam apart from unveiling Windows Live Messenger in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

This allows users to chat in their regional language with their friends and family on MSN messenger. These regional portals were launched by the well-known singer Shubha Mudgal in New Delhi.

MSN India has launched its refurbish home page. It has added 4 new channels to it - Lifestyle, Entertainment, News and Sports. In addition with services such as Windows Live Domains, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Search and special effects (SFX) advertising packages.

This new web-page look is much user friendly and livelier. It upholds wonderful graphics and the desktop TV which was started 8 months ago displays good quality images, more significant content and additional channels and integrated advertisements.

Yahoo! has announced that they have rationalized the beta of their under development Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo also said that the updated Yahoo! Mail brags more desktop application features such as the drag-and-drop organization. Besides, they have also included calendar and maps, message previews, an integrated RSS reader and new search potential in this update.

Google Earth now offers multimedia content from the Network of Discovery and others. This Google Earth will bring satellite views of geographic locations along with multimedia content from the network of discovery and other newly added features. Superimposes are obtainable by clicking a "featured content" checkbox in the desktop software's sidebar. In doing so, users looking for individual locations will robotically see any additional information that's obtainable.

For example, the Discovery overlay allows travel buffs to sight video segments to study more about the history and implication of a variety of world landmarks, national parks, American and European cities, and African locations.

Search engine giant Google has planned to launch its new software especially designed to let small businesses run its email, calendar and other services. This software is named "Google Apps for Your Domain" and is cost free, consisting of programs designed for businesses, universities and other organizations. The best part of this software is that workers will be capable to send e-mail with Gmail, Google's two-year-old web-based mail service with company's domain name.

The initial version is free and the paid version that will proffer more storage, some degree of support, probably without ads. Price for this edition is not yet decided.

In a bid to discover new sales channels for long-established media, Google Inc. will enlarge its online news directory to take in historical news stories. According to the Associated Press report, the news records encompasses previous articles published in The New YorkTimes, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The Washington Post.

Also articles from other information warehouses like LexisNexis, Factiva and HighBeam will also be available in Google's prolonged index.

Google Inc. the globe's greatest Web search engine, said on Sept 7 it was looking for partners to put in contents for a video service in Japan. Google Japan's President Norio Murakami said video was the subsequent step for Google in Japan, following the company's online news and book searches.

Google Video, a service at no cost commenced this year in the United States, permits users search, watch and buy television shows, music videos and other clips submitted by both companies and individuals.

Yahoo has extended its extremely accepted and winning social media reference offering, Yahoo Answers, into the UK today (5th September 2006). Yahoo Answers is based completely upon human generated answers to queries put up by its registered members.

This extremely wonderful plan is now flourishing and is being praised by every member who is searching for answer to specific frequently occurring questions and it's a better place for one who wants an answer for any complicated question too.

Yahoo!, the search engine, is undulating out a new social search service and is supporting the launch with its major advertising campaign since the dotcom boom. Yahoo! Answers Which is fully prepared to launch today, is a social service that will allow user's to ask other people's advice and support online.

This scheme of Yahoo will allow its users to pose a question that anyone registered to the site can answer. It is the newest move in the latest fashion towards 'social search' services including site such as Wikipidea and YouTube, permitting people to work together and share information online.

Google inc. will take part in the upcoming Mediterranean Travel Fair in Cairo. On September 6th there'll be a seminar taken up by the Google's Vertical Travel Manager Michal Lorenc, to discuss about Online Advertising and the Travel Industry. This seminar will help the travel agencies and industries to learn the benefits of Online Advertisement with regards to destinations, attractions and transport.

This fair has been urbanized to offer an educational element to the event covering the industry's newest business developments and keeping you informed with up to the minute travel associated matters. Any one can attend this seminar at no cost, seats available on first come first serve basis. The seminar room is situated on the mezzanine level of the Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nasr City.

British Airways has teamed up with Google Earth which will assist the holidaymakers to use satellite technology to check out their chosen destination before they even set foot in the airport.

The modified version of Google Earth lets populace whiz in on their chosen destination and views the local attractions.

Google's automatic language detection and translation service has brought a great sigh of relief to the people because it will now help people in translating text between languages. Translating text between languages is an exciting problem to solve and solving such problem is an ideal way to use some of the additional brain power that can be found now at Google.

With this service it is almost certain that one day people will only need to know a single language to access everything on the Internet, a service like this is a wonderful beginning to that end.