Motorola, Inc. is ringing in the New Year at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a resolution to design and deliver "wickedly cool and compelling" solutions that make anytime, anywhere and always-on entertainment and communication a personal reality for consumers. The bar-style Motorola SLVR L7 will be the next phone to run Apple’s […]

Google Inc.’s instant message and Internet phone feature, Google Talk, has been hit by patent infringement allegations. Google Talk is the search giant’s combination of instant messaging and VOIP (voice over IP). Rates Technology Inc (RTI) has brought a case against Google in New York. The patent-holding company claims that two of its patents, dating […]

New service enables marketers to measure ROI of online campaigns alongside offline programs. Now that online advertising is forecast to take a bigger slice of advertisers’ budgets than ever in the coming year, Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, and Marketing Management Analytics, Inc. (MMA), the marketing analytics pioneer, recently announced a new service […]

Time Warner can buy back shares under pending $1 billion deal Google Inc., the online media giant, will be able to sell its pending 5 per cent stake in Time Warner Inc.’s AOL internet unit as early as July 2008 according to Google’s recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The search advertising company […]

Microsoft and Google reached an agreement to settle the dispute on Google’s employment of Mircrosoft’s former employee Lee Kai-Fu. Microsoft sued Google, claiming it had violated non-competition agreements after it poached Lee, who was the head of its research operation in China. Google counter-sued saying that it had done nothing wrong and that Microsoft was […]

Web search leader Google Inc. said that it may not raise its small stake in China’s top search engine Baidu.com, even as competition rises in the fast growing sector. Google owns 2.6 percent of Baidu, and was believed to be seeking to boost its stake prior to the Chinese company’s hugely successful initial public offering […]