It's a few minutes before the official kick-off of Super Bowl XLIV. If you're not at the Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida and prefer to watch the game at home, here are some of the ways you can watch the Super Bowl online pre-game coverages. National Football League's Official Super Bowl XLIV Website Here's where you can find every bits and pieces of the Super Bowl XLIV action.

It's a few hours before the Super Bowl XLIV kicks-off but  aside from the game later, fans are also looking forward to the commercials that will be aired during the extravaganza. After all, it takes a lot of money just to get a 30 second slot from the prestigious event. And major brands have competed just to air their commercials and  brand product endorsements with some even employing celebrities to do the work for them.

Microsoft and Facebook are expanding their mutual cooperation some more as announced on the Bing Search blog .  Specifically Microsoft will continue to provide Facebook users full access to Bing features through the Microsoft-powered Facebook search facility. So, soon instead of just giving set of links, Facebook will now provide richer answers as well as other tools to enable Facebook members make faster and smarter decisions. In addition,

Yahoo and Monster Worldwide has just announced that Yahoo HotJobs will be acquired by Monster for a $225 million buy-out.  Yahoo has been looking to sell the Yahoo Hotjobs for quite some time now and finally somebody is willing to take it in and pay Yahoo for it. In case you're interested to know, Yahoo HotJobs is not really part of Yahoo's main portal business. So,

Is Google preparing to launch its tablet PC that would go up against the Apple iPad ? I mean isn't it enough for Google to have released it own smartphone?  Because from the looks of it, Google may actually be testing a new product - a tablet PC to be exact. Recently,  photos of a concept tablet PC were spotted at the Chromium Projects website . The said photos were demonstrating how the Chrome OS UI would look like on a tablet PC.

See? Here's one of the many reasons why the Nexus One phone could become a better Google-centric smartphone than the iPhone. Being a Google property, it will always gets the first-hand at various Google mobile services. Take the case of the Google Maps for Mobile for Nexus One which just got a nifty feature - personalized suggestion and synchronized starring.

Noticed something different from Google News lately? Nope? Go ahead and check out Google News site .  You'd notice those "un-highlighted" star icons before the title of each news items . Clicking on those star icons would turn them into yellow stars. Now check the left side of  the Google News site and you'd see a new link labeled "Starred." Click on the link and you will be presented with your 20 most recent "starred" news story cluster. Sweet? Actually,

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is preparing its online apps store, with the hopes of giving its Google Apps business some much need spike as well as to enable Google to strengthen its ties with business partners.  The new online store will  not only push Google's  suite of business apps,

The Official Google Mobile Blog announced that  phone numbers featured on some mobile ads are now clickable. This means that when you see a business phone number on a mobile ad  for a particular establishment, you can simply tap on the phone number and make the call. To make this even more useful is the fact that mobile web search is location-enabled.

From managing your family daily food menu to portfolio management.  Only goes to show how Bing wanted to be part of every aspects of our lives. Just announced is Bing's in-depth "stocks and funds" pages . Bing's stocks and funds page provides detailed information about key finance metrics as well as easy to understand summary of key stock information.

So after weeks of practically making the whole tech industry in active mode with rumors and photo leaks here and there, Apple finally launched its so called "latest creation." And if you're following the live coverage in various tech blogs, you all know by now that this product is called - the iPad. The Apple iPad is practically a bigger iPod Touch, an e-book reader and tablet device that you can use for web browsing.  Wait,

Sometime last year, Google rolled out its social search experiement with the aim of making search, well, more social. No, specifically to make relevant web content available of Google search results. By relevant Google means contents from your friends and contacts. So, today after getting good feedback from those who tried out the feature, Google has just released it in beta available to everyone.

Ever wanted to track or monitor changes that happen on your favorite websites but could not do it because the sites don't have feeds?  Now you can do that with Google Reader.  It now lets you create custom feed for those sites which don't available feeds. The process is similar when your adding subscriptions to your Google Reader account for sites with feeds.

Google has just released the latest and most stable release build of its Chrome browser for Windows.  Most notable features are the additional of more Chrome browser extensions and of course bookmark sync which has been tested in the browser's previous beta version. If you have not donwloaded the previous Chrome browser beta version, you might have missed the Extensions feature. These are just your usual Firefox plug-ins/add-ons which extend the functionality of the browser.

In a bid to make search results more relevant , Google is introducing two new features which were actually based from two of its experiemental products - Google Squared and Rich Snippets. These two new features are - highlighting of answers in search results and Rich Snippets for events. Answer highlighting allows users to get the information they need quickly just by bolding out the likely answers to their questions for search results with factual answers.

Latest data from comScore are showing familiar trends in the global search market once again, except for one peculiar point.  Interestingly, while Google retains its lead among the search properties worldwide, Microsoft's search market share seemed to be growing by leaps and bounds. Of course, Yahoo still got the lowest percentage change in search market for 2009 among these three major search engines.

Google just released its Fourth Quarter 2009  Earnings Report and never mind if it didn't expections of the Wall Street Journal, it's still quite an achievement for the Internet's biggest player. Total earnings for Q4 2009 was at $6.7 billion, and with that Google's Eric Schmidt couldn't be much happier. "Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year.

For the chef-wannabes in all of us, Bing has cooked up something that might help us realize our dream of becoming an Iron Chef master - Bing's Recipe Results. It's a pretty simple update really from Bing that makes it easier to find cooking recipes and other details. Especially useful during times when you're in a rush to cook up something for the family or for a small group together in your homes. What the update does is that when you type in a food related search,

So, it seems that ad serving is the order of the day for Google. Aside from introducing new targeting options for mobile ads , Google is also improving the ads it is currently serving on Gmail . Honestly, I've never really paid close attention to these ads, so it doesn't really bother me whether Google is serving relevant, irrelevant or better ads on emails I received from my Gmail account. But if you do,

Google AdWords has just rolled out a new targeting options for mobile ads .  If you're an AdWords publisher running ads on iPhones and other mobile devices with full internet browsers, this new feature will let you target specific mobile devices or carriers instead of targetting all of them. This new feature will be most useful if you're running ads that contains specific messages pertaining to specific devices or carriers.