NTL, the largest broadband provider in the United Kingdom, will be testing the file-swapping service that will let users purchase movies and music video more cheaply than traditional downloads.

The trial, which will also include another technology company from Cambridge, England-based CacheLogic Ltd., comes as BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen works to establish the software as a legitimate means of distributing content; it will add its data-caching technology to improve the network's efficiency.

20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Walt Disney, and Universal, are reported to have sued Samsung over DVD-HD841's encryption bypassing bug.

Seoul-based high-tech company Samsung Electronics Asia’s most valuable high-tech company is facing legal action in federal court in Los Angeles; from the big five US movie studios, which claims one of its DVD players that can be used to avoid encryption technology, thus facilitates piracy.

Users will be given a mobile phone with Skype pre-installed.

Skype, the fastest growing Internet Communications Company and Hutchison 3 Group, the leader in 3G mobile services, today announced an agreement to enable Skype communications on 3G.

The first company to announce a full-fledged deal with Skype has been Hutchison 3G who will trial the service in Sweden, followed by Austria, Australia, Hong Kong, Italy and the UK by the end of the year. With Skype installed on your mobile there would be a flat, and very cheap, rate to call anywhere in the world. Geography is irrelevant, and telecoms providers cannot charge users hefty premiums for overseas calls.

Symantec plans to introduce a security product later this year that will take on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows OneCare and Vista security technology.

The software, code-named "Genesis," will integrate components of Symantec's current security, PC optimization and backup products, the security company said. It will be sold on a subscription basis and will require an initial one-year agreement. Pricing has not yet been determined.

The two could earn millions but claim fee will reduce spam

America Online and Yahoo Inc. will begin charging businesses to send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by the plan, set to start in several weeks, call it e-mail taxation designed to create a new stream of revenue for the two.

The Internet companies say that this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges that plague users of their services. The two companies stand to earn millions of dollars a year from the system if it is widely adopted.

Integrated Service Gives Users Real-Time Access to AT&T Yahoo Portal, Communications Services and Customized Content

AT&T Inc., Cingular Wireless and Yahoo! Inc., of late announced the availability of AT&T Yahoo! Go Mobile, the first-of-its-kind integrated service that gives consumers real-time access to their favorite AT&T Yahoo! Internet customized online content, services and community on a wireless phone.

Collaboration again shows search leader expanding beyond computer realm
Volkswagen AG of Germany’s American unit, recently disclosed that it is working on a prototype vehicle which features Google Inc.’s satellite mapping software to give drivers a bird’s eye view of the road ahead.

The two companies are working with the graphics chipmaker nVidia Corp. to build an in-car navigation map system and a three-dimensional display so that driver and passengers will be able to instinctively recognize where they are in relation to the surrounding topography, especially in urban areas that are depicted with depth and accurate size relationships between buildings and roads.

BT announces world-beating family programming deals for next generation TV
Microsoft recently announced a partnership with British Telecom Group and Virgin Mobile to launch a mobile TV service in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, British Telecom announced three more deals with leading rights owners to widen the range of family entertainment available on its eagerly-awaited national next generation TV offering. Also, Virgin Mobile became the first European cellular network to launch a live digital TV service on mobile phones.

Seamless integration of Windows Media technologies will deliver complete music experience and redefine music discovery on Motorola handsets.

Motorola Inc. and Microsoft Corp., strengthened their existing relationship by announcing a collaboration to integrate Microsoft Windows Media Technologies on a number of Motorola's new range of handset that will offer a rival system alongside its own iTunes phone developed with Apple. Users can access content from the broadest selection of online music stores from around the world.

Ultra-Thin Motorola SLVR L7 Debuts Exclusively at Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile provider, has started offering its customers the Slvr, an ultra-thin phone from Motorola loaded with the popular iTunes music-playing software from Apple Computer Inc., the companies said in a statement.

Music is seen in the wireless industry as one of the hottest new cell phone features as service providers aim to attract new subscribers and boost revenue with services beyond voice.

Blinkx Partners with ITN, Launching Full-Service IPTV Platform blinkx.tv DirectPlay at www.blinkx.tv
Blinkx, the smartest thing on the Web, has struck a partnership deal with news producer ITN, one of the world's leading news producers, creating a new broadband TV platform for media brands in the process. Blinkx has been appointed to create and power the official ITN player, as well as make their news searchable through Blinkx.tv.

Find Code, Find Answers!
At the opening day of Demo 06 turned the spotlight on open source with three companies leveraging the collaborative and community nature of the model to bring developers and users closer together.

“Here Comes a Google for Coders!” For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel -- at least, that's the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low, because it's often too hard for programmers to find relevant bits of code for their applications.

Search giant lures away Amazon exec and he is replaced by Intel research director.
The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.

Udi Manber, who has been chief executive of Amazon.com's A9 subsidiary, will be a vice president of engineering at Google, spokeswoman Lynn Fox said in a statement. She declined to provide more details, including when he will start and what specifically he will work on.

The Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.
Concerns by Google Inc. that a Bush administration demand to examine millions of its users' Internet search requests would violate privacy rights are unwarranted, the Justice Department said in a court filing.

The 18-page brief filed recently argues that because the information provided would not identify or be traceable to specific users, privacy rights would not be violated.

Vodafone recently made an announcement that it is collaborating with Google to develop innovative mobile search services for its customers.

Vodafone will soon integrate Google's search capability into its consumer service, Vodafone live! -- providing customers with the most relevant information, wherever they are and whatever time of day it is.

Vodafone hopes that the deal with Google, which for many users is synonymous with the Internet, will help it increase Internet usage by customers and help it raise data revenues.

The mobile industry of late has unveiled plans to bring IM (Instant Messaging) to cell phones later this year to tap a new source of revenues and build on the success of text messaging.

Fifteen of the world's top mobile operators, including Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica and China Mobile announced plans to roll out PC-type instant messaging services initially targeting some 700 million mobile users.

Robert Conway, CEO of the GSM Association, said interoperable messaging is a landmark for the associations' members and will provide a blueprint for the launch of other mobile services.

IBM of late detailed new circuit design techniques that it says will double the clock speed of its forthcoming Power6 processors over the speed of its Power5 processors without dramatically increasing power requirements.

IBM's upcoming Power6, which is multi-core and designed for higher-end servers running the Unix operating system, was crafted from the ground up to run fast without major losses in power efficiency, said Bernard Meyerson, chief technologist of IBM's Systems and Technology Group.

A new type of Internet search tool presents a much smaller, but more relevant result, classified into categories.
A two-year-old start up company, co-founded by two Indians, created waves at the: "Demo 06" conference in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, with an innovative Net search engine.

At the Demo conference, various startup companies launched products ranging from a search engine that phonetically looks through audio and video to technology that relies on structured data to provide perfect—as well as close—matches.

Publishers demand revenue and recognition from search engines
The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back.

A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to legally challenge internet news aggregation services like those offered by Google.

Deal Also Includes CBS Television Network VOD Content

Less than two months after CBS Corp. president Leslie Moonves told Wall Street he wanted the company to be paid for its signal, CBS snagged its first major deal with Verizon and its fledgling TV service.

Verizon and CBS recently announced a comprehensive retransmission consent and video-on-demand (VOD) agreement, which includes analog, digital, multicast and high-definition rights to programming on CBS owned-and-operated television stations; local VOD content from those stations; and CBS Television Network VOD content, including such current popular network series as "CSI," "NCIS" and "Survivor."...