The U.S. District Court ruled this month that Google’s copying and caching of a story that author and attorney Blake Field posted on his Website did not violate copyright law. A Nevada judge has ruled in favor of Google Inc. in a copyright case that legal experts said could be helpful in its defense against […]

Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Joins Yahoo! To Lead Research Efforts in Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is opening its first research labs in Europe and South America, continuing a quest to close the gap separating it from online search engine leader Google Inc.

Planned Technology Collaboration Would Enable Consumers to Quickly and Easily Search, Manage and Consume Video in the Digital Home Intel Corp. said that it is working with search engine company Google Inc. to make Google Video, a form of a video-on-demand accessible on Viiv computers.

Pay-per-downloads to include CBS shows; software pack aimed at Microsoft Google announced plans for an Internet video service that will carry a wide range of entertainment, sports and news programming, according to a person familiar with its plans. Users will pay an undisclosed fee to download content supplied by partners that Google has lined up. […]

KODAK Photo Voice marks the next step in this evolution. Eastman Kodak Company and Skype, the global Internet communications company, announced the availability of the latest innovation in digital storytelling KODAK Photo Voice – that combines live voice and online photo sharing. The beta version of KODAK Photo Voice, the first Skype certified online photo […]

Google Poses Strong Challenge to Leader Baidu in China, Reports Keynote Google Inc.’s simpler homepage design and more relevant search results give it a chance of overtaking China’s leading search engine Baidu, a Web metrics firm said. A groundbreaking new study from Keynote Systems, The Internet Performance Authority, shows Google in a strong position to […]

New Unit – Verizon Business – Serves Business and Government Customers Verizon Communications Inc. and MCI, Inc. recently closed on their merger, enhancing Verizon’s ability to deliver the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment to customers across the country and around the world. Verizon Communications said it completed its 8.5-billion-dollar purchase of MCI, creating […]

Industry-Leading Relevance and Image-Specific Zoom Related Search Provide Superior Image Search Experience Ask Jeeves Inc. has a new image search engine and it is ready for its close-up, the Oakland, California, company announced recently. The new tool includes Ask Jeeves’s internally created index of Web images, improvements to its image search ranking algorithms and Zoom-related […]

Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. (PCC), a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., has teamed up with Skype, the global Internet communications company, to develop Panasonic Internet calling products. Panasonic’s future Skype compatible products will give consumers access to Skype services including, SkypeOut, SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail using a cordless phone and a computer running […]

Purchase of radio ad firm could cost more than $1 billion over 3 years Google Inc. of late announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based digital solutions provider for the radio broadcast industry. dMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. The platform simplifies the […]