The venerable British network will make “The Mighty Boosh, Robin Hood and Top Gear” content available on the social networking site…

MySpace has entered into a partnership with BBC Worldwide, which will allow MySpaceTV viewers to view, embed and virtually share short video clips from popular programs distributed on the social networking site owned by News Corp.

Under the terms of the deal, current and archived video content from the BBC will be made available via the MySpace video platform.

The deal marks the first time eBay and PayPal have acquired a security technology company…

“PayPal’s acquisition of the software firm Fraud Sciences for US$169 million, could help boost confidence in the online payment industry and in the parent company’s online auctions…”

San Francisco -- PayPal, eBay’s online payments division, will pay $169 million for an Israeli security company specializing in detecting online fraud, the companies said Monday. The deal should close within 30 days.

“Just when you thought there was no room for any more “Hot or Not” web sites, along comes one which lets you vote on how good a web site looks…”

“David Sifry, who founded Technorati as a family blog in 2002, can probably claim a share of that jackpot.”

Technorati founder David Sifry has just launched a website with investor friend Martin Varsavsky that is, in so many words, a “Web Hot or Not” for websites.

On his blog, Sifry bills it as “a fun game to play with your friends when you have got a few minutes to waste”.

Leading Chinese language search firm Baidu has launched a Japanese language version of its search engine…

Tokyo -- China’s most popular search engine Baidu.com, which has risen rapidly as Internet use expands in China, aims to overtake Google and Yahoo has finally launched its long anticipated Japanese portal, its executives said on Wednesday.

AT&T plans to soon make its nationwide Wi-Fi network free to users…provided you are one of its 10 million plus broadband subscribers…

“With the growing popularity of Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, AT&T wanted to give its subscribers more options to access the Internet on the go, the carrier said…”

AT&T said Wednesday that it will soon offer its broadband subscribers unlimited free “Wi-Fi” access in its hot spots, as well as a new supercharged 10Mbps tier of service.

Once again, YouTube is in the news for all the wrong reasons…

“Earlier this year, a Turkish court blocked access to YouTube because of videos allegedly insulting the country’s founder. Now, it has happened again…”

One of the world’s most popular video websites “YouTube” has been banned in Turkey for the second time because it allegedly insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, according to media reports Monday.

Net Integration Technologies sells an all-in-one business server aimed at small- and mid-sized companies…

“International Business Machines Corp., the world’s second-biggest software maker, agreed to buy Net Integration Technologies Inc. to add small-business network programs…”

Zhongyi Electronic sues Microsoft, claims breach of intellectual property rights…

“A small Beijing software firm is taking Microsoft to court, alleging that it has not been keeping its end of a bargain to license technology for converting the Roman alphabet into Chinese characters…”

Sony to unveil VoIP add-on at CES…

Tokyo -- Japan’s Sony Corp. plans to add an Internet phone function to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game player in cooperation with eBay unit Skype to stir up demand, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.

According to a Sony Web page dedicated to news to be announced at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show the latest software upgrade to the PlayStation Portable platform will be Skype support.

ChaCha Founder Scott Jones says the move marks ChaCha’s entry into the lucrative mobile search market…

“ChaCha is repositioning itself from a Web-based search engine to become a player in the multi-million-dollar -- soon to be multibillion-dollar -- mobile search market…”

Indianapolis -- In a landmark move, on Thursday, ChaCha began inviting mobile users to send questions of just about anything via text message to 242242, which spells “ChaCha” on many phones, which will instantly be routed to a ChaCha guide for review and the answer will be returned via text within minutes.

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with “Real Estate TV,” the U.K.’s only property channel, to give viewers access to the best real estate video showcase on the Web today.

Under the terms of the deal, the United Kingdom-based Real Estate TV’s popular online property programming will be fully searchable and playable from the blinkx Web site at www.blinkx.com.

Wikia Search, a community-driven open-source search tool, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales…

“The founder of Wikipedia says taking the online encyclopedia's collaborative approach into the field of search would not dethrone Google Inc. or another major search engine -- at least not soon…”

New York -- Wikia co-founder and chairman Jim

Mountain View, Ca. -- Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world.

“Under the deal, Bharti Airtel will become VeriSign’s Strategic Market Partner and will deploy VeriSign’s services in India, leveraging Bharti Airtel’s in-country support and expertise.”

All Five FCC Commissioners Make Unprecedented Showing at the 2008 International CES…

“The Consumer Electronics Association announced that senior technology policymakers from the European Union, Japan and the United States will participate in the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)…”

Beijing -- Shawn Wang, chief financial officer of Baidu.com Inc., the leading Chinese search engine that can search websites, audio files, and images, has reportedly died in an accident, while on a vacation in the country that occurred on Dec. 27, the company said in a statement.

“Wang died three days ago during a Christmas-New Year holiday, the company said without giving further details.”

Apple's iPhone may be big news, but in Silicon Valley all eyes are on Facebook.

Plao Alto, Calif. -- Given its roots as a college networking site, Facebook has historically shown very strong skews toward the 18-24 year old age segment.

Facebook's membership among the early adopters who are first to latch onto new technology trends has skyrocketed in recent weeks, sparking a minor backlash among kids who find it “creepy” that adults are flooding to their site.

Video-share site confident in face of litigation - Plans for further worldwide expansion

Literally, it might be known as Voustube, Voitubo or Vocetubo, but the world's most popular video-sharing site expanding its global platform introduced local-language sites in nine countries on Tuesday that will all just go by YouTube.

Mediation begins in music copyright trial involving China's largest search engine.
Four music giants and their local subsidiaries have entered mediation with Baidu.com, China's largest Internet search engine over the recording companies' claims of copyright infringement.

The companies including Universal, Warner, EMI and Sony BMG are suing the Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com whose MP3 search technology provide links to websites which allegedly allows users to illegally download copyrighted music.

AdCenter targets pitches based on demographics; due in U.S. this fall.
MSN has announced the official launch of AdCenter in France and Singapore. AdCenter powers a paid-search service from MSN that provides advanced audience intelligence and targeting capabilities to help advertisers improve their return on investment when it comes to paid-search advertising.

The official launch of AdCenter in France recently and Singapore on Aug. 31 follows successful pilot programs in both countries. U.S. testing of AdCenter is set to begin in October. The ads can be customized based on parameters such as time, location, age, and gender.

World’s leading online e-commerce portal has announced plans to collaborate with leading Internet photo service Shutterfly. The web-based service is planning to enter the growing market of online photo developing services and plans to provide these facilities on their webstore, which sells anything, and everything on the Internet.