EU Levies $357M Fine on Microsoft, Threatens More Penalties Unless Company Obeys Antitrust Order The European Union levied a second massive fine on Microsoft e280.5m ($357.3m) for defying a 2004 antitrust ruling, and warned the company to comply or face bigger fines from next month and order to share technical details of its Windows operating […]

OpenDocument Format Alliance adds search giant to member list, touting application-indifferent document-reading skills. Google has joined the lobbying group supporting the use of the OpenDocument file format (ODF), designed to challenge the proprietary data formats from Microsoft.

Google Inc. plans to open a new facility in downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., the hometown of the University of Michigan, where Larry Page, one of Google’s founders, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering. The plan, which could be a significant boost to Michigan’s lagging economy, was announced by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm at a news […]

The two firms have linked arms in a multi-year agreement that will see Google’s Toolbar included with various Adobe products. As part of its recent push to have its Web browser toolbar installed everywhere around the world, Adobe Systems Inc. lately said that Google Inc. had agreed to pay the multimedia software maker a "significant" […]

Motorola, the world’s second-biggest maker of mobile phones, is to embed Yahoo services on tens of millions of phones. Yahoo is extending its reach into the mobile realm by inking an agreement with wireless technology specialist Motorola that will put a variety of services, including Web search, e-mail, and personal contact lists at the fingertips […]

Self-regulation for Vista and all future Windows versions will bolster competition and customer choice. Microsoft Corp. pledged of late that the company was adopting voluntary principles to guide development of its flagship Windows operating system, including Windows Vista, which will include allowing computer manufacturers to set Google and other non-Microsoft search engines as a default […]

Google has announced the launch of its advertising service ‘”click-to-play video ad format” that allows businesses to show videos online, available for advertisers worldwide. Advertisers can now run this new format on the Google content network to reach their target customers. An example can be seen on the Google Video Ads demo page. The service […]

Auction giant urges customers to use its’ own PayPal service In the ongoing fight between Internet giants, the latest round has eBay coming out swinging. Shortly after Google rolled out a PayPal-like payment service called Checkout, eBay banned it from being advertised on auction listings. Auction giant eBay is preventing its sellers from using Google’s […]

Company to Sponsor Open Source Project for Open XML-ODF File Translation to Deliver More Choice for Government Customers and Their Constituents Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office Documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments.

The malware works its way onto users’ personal computers when they click on infected links in Orkut scrapbook pages. Free Web hosting service was being used by hackers trying to steal money. A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google Inc.’s social networking […]