Software Giant Microsoft and the British Library have come together to digitize 25m pages of content from the library’s collections in 2006. The two will work together to digitize around 100,000 out-of-copyright books and deliver search results for this content through the new MSN Book Search service. According to a library press release, Lynne Brindley, […]

Yahoo Inc. and TiVo Inc. are teaming up to blend some of their services, a move that further fades the lines between offices and living rooms, TVs and PCs. Under a partnership announced lately, the two will collaborate to offer Yahoo’s Internet-based content and services through TiVo’s digital video recording devices. People can browse television […]

Efforts to establish national standards for protecting computer data received a boost when Microsoft Corp. announced support for the idea. Microsoft, the world’s biggest computer software maker, did not endorse a specific bill but said a single national standard is better than the complex and sometimes contradictory patchwork approach now in place around the country.

The wireless outfit’s just-finalized alliance with four cable-TV giants is likely to boost its earnings, raising the pressure on Telco rivals. Four of the nation’s top cable TV providers announced a long-awaited deal to deliver their own cell phone services through Sprint Nextel Corp., creating a “quadruple play” of voice, video, Internet and wireless products […]

South Korea’s anti-trust agency said in a statement that it was delaying a long-awaited ruling on Microsoft Corp.’s business practices to next week, after the review committee failed to reach an agreement. Despite Microsoft reaching a $30 million settlement with Daum over the antitrust allegations in early November, the commission has said it would rule […]

America Online quietly launched a new video-on-demand search service recently, opening the doors for millions of Internet users to view music videos, news segments and other content from parent company Time Warner, whose mountain of media holdings gives AOL an advantage over rivals Google and Yahoo.

Microsoft has told South Korea that if the (KFTC) Korean Fair Trade Commission forces Microsoft to remove code or redesign Windows for the Korean market, it might withdraw Windows from the Korean market. In response, Linspire has offered to license every Korean computer with its Linux operating system. Microsoft had threatened to remove Windows from […]

Any researcher or student, whether living in New York or New Delhi, can now research and learn from these books that previously were only available in a library. Google Inc.’s Internet-leading search engine will begin offering entire contents of ‘public domain‘ material, i.e. books and government documents that are not entangled in a copyright battle […]

The entrepreneur who runs Yahoo Inc.’s China-based Web portal has announced a new strategy based on promoting the site as a search engine, saying he is ready to spend heavily in a battle with Chinese-language search leader Baidu.com. Ma Yun, chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba.com, said the top priority for Yahoo in China […]

Microsoft Corp. has reached a $30 million settlement with South Korea’s Daum over an antitrust suit, but regulators will continue to review their case against the world’s largest software maker. The deal ends a legal battle with Daum, which had accused Microsoft of violating anti-trust rules by unfairly incorporating its MSN instant messaging software into […]