A Google executive who helped invent the internet has said that Google will use antitrust lawsuits to defend net neutrality. Google of late warned it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators.

Acquisition of iView Multimedia will strengthen assault on Adobe British company iView Media Software has sold its "digital asset management" to software giant Microsoft, the founder of the British photo cataloging Software Company said on its Web site. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Joint consumer Internet security service to help companies compete against rivals such as: Google and Microsoft. Yahoo, in partnership with Symantec, launched an Internet security software suite dubbed Norton Internet Security and designed to protect online users from threats like viruses and spyware, the companies said in a statement.

Google announced updates to two of its most popular mobile products, further demonstrating the company’s commitment to making the mobile phone a more convenient platform for accessing information while on the go. Web search leader Google Inc. has enhanced its Google Maps Mobile application by adding “live” traffic information and the ability to save routes.

Amnesty International has released a report in which it shames Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google of violating human rights principles by juxtaposing statements about their corporate values with details of how they acted contrary to these values in cooperating with the Chinese authorities to censor the Web and assisting them to track down dissidents using their […]

Google is testing a version of its search engine aimed at blind and partially sighted users. Google Inc. has begun testing a new version of its search system that makes finding information on the Web easier for the blind or visually impaired, its creator said in a statement. For visually impaired users, Web pages that […]

When it comes to video searching on the Net, blinkx is big. blinkx recently inked a deal with the History Channel U.K. to feature historical audio and video content on the search web site, including speeches and clips from icons such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Neil Armstrong as well […]

Microsoft will start selling a wireless digital music and video player to compete with Apple’s iPod by Christmas, sources close to the matter reported. Microsoft’s interest in making its own hand-held music and video player, to challenge Apple Computer’s iPod and expects to have it in stores in time for the holiday season, disclosed by […]

A group of leading music companies is preparing to sue Yahoo China over complaints that the popular search engine violates copyrights by linking to Web sites that offer pirated music, the group’s chairman said. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has complained for some time that search engines in China make it too […]

Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang; until recently Along with defining an intensive computer user as a "mouse potato" (a popular twist on the late 1990’s "couch potato" entry), they have given formal definition to one of the Internet’s most recognizable names. "Google is […]