Yahoo and Intel on Wednesday unveiled plans to make television more interactive with online capabilities.

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Intel and Yahoo said Wednesday that they are teaming up to bring Web-style interactive applications to television sets. The joint effort is one of many aimed at bringing interactivity to television, a concept that has been trumpeted for years but has seen little consumer adoption so far.

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Yahoo announced Tuesday that its Buzz story ratings service is now available to the general public. ?What does this mean for you? Anything you find on the Web is now buzzable,” Tapan Bhat, senior vice president of front doors, communities, and network services at Yahoo, wrote in a blog post.

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Google ?s philanthropic arm is investing in two geothermal companies, while also providing a grant to Southern Methodist University to further study renewable energy bubbling from below the earth?s surface.

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Google’s quantity searches in the United States during July surged 16 percent over the last year, cementing the company’s lead at the top of the market, according to statistics released Tuesday by Nielsen Online.

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While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo.

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Yahoo’s ad deal with Google should help it monetize certain queries better, but analysts have wondered whether Yahoo risks hollowing out its own ad business, as buyers view Google as a one-stop shop.

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Shares of Yahoo Inc. fell Monday as analysts lowered expectations for the Web search and portal operator’s earnings in the second half of the year.

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Google and other technology giants like Microsoft, Intel and Dell, have long pushed for a plan to allow soon-to-be-vacant broadcast spectrum to be used to provide new high-speed wireless Internet access networks.

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T-Mobile said Monday it plans to launch a mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple’s popular iPhone.

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