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 […]

Hundreds of thousands of Spanish language books to go online The library of the Complutense University of Madrid became the first Spanish-language collection added to the Google Books project, according to the Mountain View, California, company.

Microsoft is planning free web-based versions of its word processing and spreadsheet programs. Microsoft Corp. said that it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market, who bought web-word processor Writely […]

{mosimage}French alternative fixed-line carrier Neuf Cegetel SA has finalized an agreement to purchase the internet access business of AOL France, as the sell-off of Time Warner Inc.’s European assets continues. Time Warner Inc. of late said it agreed to sell AOL France’s Internet access business to Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications network operator, for about […]

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, […]

A couple of weeks after Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker announced a partnership with Yahoo! to enhance the search capabilities for its smart-phones, the Finnish phone maker has reached a similar agreement with Microsoft to do essentially the same thing. “In fact, Microsoft’s Live Search joins Yahoo! as part of Nokia’s Mobile Search […]

Internet search firm Yahoo is reported to be in talks to buy social networking website Facebook for $1bn (£527m). Yahoo is reportedly in serious talks to acquire Facebook, a move that at least one analyst said would give the portal a needed boost in the fast-growing market for online social networks.

Google released enhanced search tools that let companies sift through as many as 30 million documents kept on networks or websites. Google Inc. lately announced a new version of the “Google Search Appliance” that offers increased search capacity of up to 30 million documents, and consisted of a combination of hardware and software and supported […]

Internet giant removes links from Belgian site — Papers say content being used without permission. The world’s most popular Web search engine Google said it would appeal against a Belgian court ruling that threatens to undermine the rationale behind its hugely popular global network of news sites, local media reported. The court ruled that Google […]

Google apparently thinks Apple can succeed where no other company has and is jumping at the chance to be part of its iTV device. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined the board of directors at Apple last month, industry experts and insiders could smell that something was cooking between the two companies.