Amazon and Google are separately in talks with music industry executives about new digital music services that could break Apple’s grip on the fast-growing market for legal downloads. Apple’s iTunes music store sells about 75 percent of all legally downloaded songs worldwide. According to Financial Times report, both companies are in talks with big names […]

Google Inc. and eBay Inc.’s Skype are investing in a Spain-based start-up, Fon, which aims to create a network of Wi-Fi users who share their wireless access, some for free and others for a fee, is set to announce a $22 million in funding from big name backers, according to recent media reports. Two venture-capital […]

Collaboration again shows search leader expanding beyond computer realm Volkswagen AG of Germany’s American unit, recently disclosed that it is working on a prototype vehicle which features Google Inc.’s satellite mapping software to give drivers a bird’s eye view of the road ahead. The two companies are working with the graphics chipmaker nVidia Corp. to […]

Search giant Google tapped Dr. Larry Brilliant, a man with deep roots both in technology and altruism, to head Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm. Google Inc. has recently announced the appointment of Dr. Larry Brilliant as Executive Director of Google.org, which administers Google’s philanthropic activities. Dr. Brilliant, 61, an admitted radical and associate of Wavy […]

Integrated Service Gives Users Real-Time Access to AT&T Yahoo Portal, Communications Services and Customized Content AT&T Inc., Cingular Wireless and Yahoo! Inc., of late announced the availability of AT&T Yahoo! Go Mobile, the first-of-its-kind integrated service that gives consumers real-time access to their favorite AT&T Yahoo! Internet customized online content, services and community on a […]

America Online said that it has launched a public test of a Chinese-language version of its U.S. website to court Chinese Americans, offering features that in some ways are more ambitious than its main U.S. site. AOL Chinese-language Web portal, which brings together Web search, blogs, and e-mail features with news and entertainment from North […]

Adult entertainment firm claims search results directly violate copyrights A federal court judge has concluded that an image search service run by Google Inc. infringes on the copyrights of adult entertainment company Perfect 10 Inc., by displaying small versions of its images in search results. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled that Perfect 10, […]

Seamless integration of Windows Media technologies will deliver complete music experience and redefine music discovery on Motorola handsets. Motorola Inc. and Microsoft Corp., strengthened their existing relationship by announcing a collaboration to integrate Microsoft Windows Media Technologies on a number of Motorola’s new range of handset that will offer a rival system alongside its own […]

BT announces world-beating family programming deals for next generation TV Microsoft recently announced a partnership with British Telecom Group and Virgin Mobile to launch a mobile TV service in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, British Telecom announced three more deals with leading rights owners to widen the range of family entertainment available on its eagerly-awaited national […]

Windows OneCare Live available in June Microsoft Corp. said that it plans to launch a new computer security service in June, marking the world’s biggest software maker’s entry into the fast-growing consumer anti-virus market. Microsoft’s Windows OneCare Live, a subscription-based, self-updating service, will push the software giant into competition with consumer security providers Symantec Corp. […]