“The European Union’s data privacy regulators contradicted Google Inc. views on IP addresses and said they should be regarded as personal information, according to reports…” Brussels — Google Inc. attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have competition authorities consider the handling of personal information in its $3.1 billion takeover of […]

Company aims to increase profitability, prop up its deflated stock price, and focus on a smaller number of key areas, people close to the company say… “Yahoo! Inc., owner of the most- visited U.S. Web site, will cut about 700 jobs as it reorganizes to compete with Google Inc., according to a person with knowledge […]

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 […]

Google and IncrediMail are now co-operating with the goal of resolving any remaining compliance issues, if any… Internet content software company IncrediMail Ltd. has resumed its collaboration with Google Inc., after the latter reinstated it as an AdSense online customer. Last week Incredimail said that Google had unilaterally suspended its use of the AdSense service […]

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…”

Approximately three in four U.S. Internet users surveyed, by ComScore viewed online video in November, mostly from Google sites like YouTube… “More content begets more viewers, which, in turn, beget more content. That is the virtuous cycle — the network effect — that has propelled Google-owned YouTube to the No. 1 spot in online video…” […]

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 […]

“Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said yesterday…” Microsoft has said it designed “Office 2003 Service Pack 3,” blocks most pre-Windows 98 Word documents as well as many Office 97 files and […]

Designer behind Gmail moseys along… Google Inc.’s Kevin Fox, who helped design the Gmail e-mail program, said he is leaving the Internet search engine to work for a startup company. Kevin, who also worked at Yahoo before, does not make it explicit exactly why he is leaving Google. But it is not unlikely that he […]