Luxembourg — A group of Belgian French-language newspapers publishers said Tuesday they are seeking as much as $77 million from search engine Google Inc. in damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant over the right to link to and cache their news stories in violation of copyright law. Copiepresse, a copyright group for […]

Boston — Maker of the popular Photoshop and Acrobat software, Adobe Systems Inc., has made available for free download beta versions of three of the latest tools that its Creative Suit 4 will come with: Dreamweaver, Soundbooth and Fireworks, on Tuesday. The trio beta applications are available now from Adobe Labs, and are taken from […]

New York — On the eve of its’ first-ever developer conference, Web search leader Google Inc. unlocked the doors for its Google App Engine to all takers Tuesday and would offer additional computing resources for developers this year and announced pricing details for the service. More announcements in addition to its almost 100 in-depth technical […]

RIM Refuses To Provide E-mail Interception In India New Delhi – BlackBerry vendor Research-In-Motion (RIM) today rejected the Indian government’s demand to access its encryption keys for decoding messages sent by its enterprise clients over the BlackBerry service to any third party.

New Delhi — Google India, attempting to maximize its advertising revenue today announced the appointment of three key senior business heads for its India operations. Sridhar Seshadri has been appointed as Business Head to handle Financial Services, Parminder Singh as Business Head to deal with Technology, while Narasimha Jayakumar has been brought in as Business […]

New York — Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit in violation of copyright demanding YouTube’s ability to maintain copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site “threatens to what extent hundreds of millions of people lawfully exchange all kinds of information over the Internet,” YouTube owner Google Inc. said. Google’s lawyers asserted in papers filed late Friday in […]

“NBA all-star Kevin Garnett holds center court in a new TV spot from Verizon Communications that introduces the company’s FiOS TV service.” New York — Eleven-time hoops star Kevin Garnett is now the latest A-list celebrity acting in a new advertising campaign for Verizon FiOS services.

Washington — Despite its criticism of NAB’s amidst growing opposition, Google co-founder Larry Page intensified its campaign to make “white spaces” spectrum available for use by a new generation of mobile phones and other wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves in a visit to Washington lawmakers on Thursday. Google’s spectrum battle did not […]

Google, Facebook In Standoff Over Social Data New York – Google Inc.’s online groups of people have little grip in the United States, but the search leader carry on to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. And if it bets on catching up with other popular social networks, then first it must deal with […]

Yahoo Postpones Annual Meeting, Fending Off Icahn “Embattled Web pioneer buys more time as talks continues with Microsoft.” Washington – Yahoo! Inc., the Internet web pioneer under siege from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, postponed its annual meeting after the billionaire threatened to oust its directors for snubbing a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.