Reuters - Three global record companies have
launched legal proceedings against China’s top Internet search
engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by
giving access to music files, an international music trade body
said.
Archive for February 5th, 2008
Reuters - Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone
maker, started to roll-out its online gaming service N-Gage on
Tuesday as it expands into mobile Internet services.
AP - Google Inc. is adding more e-mail security and storage products for businesses, sharpening its aim on a Microsoft Corp. stronghold while the competition between the two rivals also heats up in Internet search and advertising.
AP - MySpace users will be able to add games, e-mail services and other features from outside developers without ever leaving the site under a new program the popular online community will fully launch next month.
AP - Microsoft Corp.’s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
Reuters - Chinese media company
Sohu.com Inc on Monday said quarterly profits rose 148 percent,
fueled by record growth in advertising and online gaming in one
of the world’s biggest Internet markets.
TechWeb - IBM, Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Panda Security are among those in Spain this week hammering out details of the anti-malware group.
TechWeb - The current version — IPv4, which can accommodate 4.3 billion addresses — would have run out of addresses by 2012, experts predict.
AP - The inspiration for CrimeReports.com came a decade ago when Greg Whisenant made the mistake of letting a stranger, who turned out to be a burglar, into his apartment building in Arlington, Va.
AFP - US computer giant Microsoft said Monday it was launching a cheaper version of its Xbox 360 in Japan in an attempt to make inroads into the game-loving nation that has shunned the console.
