Warner exec says talks about content rights that began with YouTube will continue with its new owner.
Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons is negotiating with YouTube to deal with the problem of videos that infringe his company's copyrights, and now that Google's buying the video-sharing site, Parsons says he is going to move those negotiations to his company's partner, which owns a 5 percent stake in Time Warne's AOL unit.

“You can assume we are in negotiations with YouTube and that those negotiations will be kicked up to the Google level in the hope that we can get to some acceptable position,” Parsons told The Guardian.

Palm Inc. recently announced the Palm Treo 680 smart-phones that will deliver the popular interactive mapping experience of Google Maps to millions of users. The new Treo aims to meet growing demand for devices with multimedia capabilities that receive e-mail wirelessly, let users listen to digital music, download podcasts and handle other features beyond talk.

The company said it would begin a 25 million-dollar marketing campaign to expand demand for the product beyond its base of business users.

Carphone Warehouse Group has agreed to buy Time Warner unit AOL's UK Internet access business for 370 million pounds (US$689 million) in cash, transforming the mobile phone retailer into Britain's third biggest broadband provider, the two companies announced in a joint statement to the London Stock Exchange.

The all-cash transaction will give Carphone Warehouse an extra 1.5 million high-speed Internet access customers to add to an existing base of 625,000, propelling it up to third place in the broadband league table behind BT and NTL.

Microsoft licenses Blinkx technology to power video search on parts of MSN and Live.com.

In a growing digital media market that has witnessed YouTube carve out a niche for viral video, Blinkx is looking to make those videos easier to find online.

YouTube is a load of laughs. Finding something specific you want to watch is another matter.

MTV has inked a deal with Baidu.com, China's largest search engine, to distribute music videos via the Internet in China, boosting the music video channel's exposure in a market where regulation has limited its presence.

MTV Networks will share music videos and shows with China Internet search leader Baidu.com in an attempt to reap advertising revenue in the world's second-largest Internet market, the two companies said.

Amazon.com has discontinued several distinctive features of its search engine, A9.com, including a search history that recorded all the searches ever made by a user, and mapping technology that captured street-level images of businesses in the largest U.S. cities, that were among its most distinctive features, the company confirmed.

The A9 Toolbar, maps, Yellow Pages and a personalized diary and bookmark features are no longer available, a spokesman said.

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Apple Computer, which pioneered the online distribution of music and television shows, appears poised to jump into the movie business.

Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, was set to announce the new products at a special media event recently held in San Francisco, that it will soon begin selling movie downloads from Walt Disney Co.'s film studios, aiming to turn its iTunes online music store into a one-stop shop for digital entertainment.

The invitations sent last week had declared simply "It is Showtime," triggering an avalanche of speculation that Apple would soon shake up the distribution of movies as much as it did music with its iTunes store and iPod players.

The limits of artificial intelligence have prompted information companies to look beyond computers to human brainpower as a competitive edge. The latest effort to tap people power is ChaCha.com, a search engine launching in beta this week that, in addition to the standard algorithmic search box, includes an option to direct queries to human search guides.

Scott Jones knows it is probably not wise to try to out-Google Google. But he is also not ready to concede that the world's leading search engine, or any of its main competitors, has the Web search trick down completely.

Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007, Norton Internet Security 2007 Provide State-of-the-Art Security and Performance to Protect Against Today's Newest Threats.

Symantec Corp. lately announced the launch of Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007, editions of its flagship consumer security products by touting new features and smaller PC footprints.

Photoshop Showcase will host photos, videos and flash galleries.

Adobe recently debuted updates to both its Adobe Photoshop Elements photo editing software and Premiere Elements video editing suite, which it billed as major upgrades to both products. The applications are consumer versions of the more comprehensive professional products offered by Adobe.

Eight more cities will get access to Net phone service that requires no additional customer gear.

EarthLink said that it would expand its packaged DSL and phone service in D.C. and seven other metropolitan markets in an effort to give consumers an alternative to local phone companies by year's end. First announced in January, the service is made possible through a partnership with Covad.

Tuning in to popular TV programming while at home or on the go is now as simple -- and ubiquitous -- as powering up a broadband connection.

AT&T Inc. and MobiTV, Inc., the global leader in television and music services for all things mobile and broadband, lately announced an agreement to offer a mobile television service to broadband users in the United States, including AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and AT&T WorldNet subscribers.

Microsoft announces release date and price, which means Zune will compete directly with Apple's 30GB iPod.

Microsoft has vowed to put considerable money and effort behind its bid to dethrone Apple Computer's market-leading iPod, but it would not be using price as a weapon.

Microsoft has recently announced pricing for its new Zune music player, setting the price at $249. The Zune's price will put it in direct competition with Apple Computer's latest 30GB iPod, which also costs $249, the company said as it released more details on the device.

Roughly three months after the launch of Windows Media Player 11 Beta 1, Microsoft has followed it up with a Beta 2 release of the next version of Windows Media Player for Windows XP, adding more online stores for buying digital music and letting users share content across various devices.

Media Player 11 also has tight integration with the Urge online music store, a joint venture with MTV Networks Inc. Microsoft, however, says the software can also access other stores that support its digital rights management software, which does not include the Web's most popular store iTunes from Apple Computer.

19 year Microsoft veteran Brian Valentine has announced that he is leaving the Vole-hill to join Amazon.

A Microsoft Corp. executive who led Windows Vista's development is leaving for Amazon.com, with the clock ticking down to the scheduled release of the delayed operating system.

Brian Valentine, a Microsoft veteran known for rallying the troops to finish big projects, is due to start work at Amazon as a senior vice president in mid-September.

Company acquires tiny start-up that built an add-on for purchasing and managing Google-driven Web ad campaigns.

Software provider Salesforce.com Inc. has acquired a tiny four-person start-up Kieden Corp., specializing in paid search technology that created an add-on to its hosted services, which helps customers track sales leads generated with online advertisements for purchasing and managing Google-driven AdWords Web advertising campaigns.

The $200 million deal as big media companies compete with upstart online video leader YouTube.com.

MTV Networks (MTVN), a division of Viacom, Inc., recently announced a definitive agreement to acquire Atom Entertainment, Inc., a portfolio of four leading online destinations for casual games, short films and video, for $200 million, as big media companies move to compete with online upstarts such as video leader YouTube.com.

Search engine's plans could revolutionize book industry as much as Gutenberg did

The row is a classic clash between the old and the new; between an industry that can trace its roots back to Johannes Gutenberg and other printers of the 15th century and one that has erupted in just half a decade.

Google, the world's largest Internet search engine company, is to start an on-line book search service in China, accelerating fierce competition with Baidu, its biggest Chinese rival, the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities News reported.

Amnesty International has released a report in which it shames Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google of violating human rights principles by juxtaposing statements about their corporate values with details of how they acted contrary to these values in cooperating with the Chinese authorities to censor the Web and assisting them to track down dissidents using their respective networks.