New Round Of Documents Aired In Viacom-google Case


Google

The internal Google documents, marked “highly confidential,” were obtained and released by media company Viacom Inc. in part to bolster its case in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google and YouTube.
Viacom alleges the companies built YouTubes success by promoting the unlicensed use of video taken from Viacom cable channels such as MTV, [...]

Microsoft to Inquire Conditions In China Plant


Microsoft

The worlds largest software maker was responding to a report from The National Labor Committee, a nonprofit that looks into the treatment of foreign workers by U.S. companies. On Tuesday, the group published a report detailing long working hours, low pay, insufficient food and few freedoms for workers at the KYE Systems Corp. factory in [...]

Myspace Launches Social Calendar Function With Ads


Myspace

The social networking site, in the midst of an overhaul to regain its lost mojo, is rolling out a service Thursday that blends nearly 1 million concert listings with a calendar and new links to buy tickets from partners or artists. Other pop culture events such as movie debuts and album releases are expected to [...]

Twitter Finally Feathers Its Nest With Marketing


Google

The startup is trying to make money without alienating the tens of millions of people who have gotten used to tweeting and following friends, celebrities and others without commercial interruptions. Just as it has through most of its four-year existence, Twitter is treading cautiously.
The new ads, called “promoted tweets,” will pop up only on searches [...]

Qualcomm to Let Phones Record Mobile Tv Shows


Qualcomm

AT&T Inc. offers two phone models that can receive the broadcasts through a FLO TV service branded as “AT&T Mobile TV,” while Verizon Wireless sells another two for “V Cast Mobile TV.” Qualcomm also sells a portable TV set for $200, while Audiovox Corp. sells an in-car entertainment system that can receive FLO TV.
Mobile TV [...]

Facebook Unveils Revamped Online Precaution Site


Facebook

Facebooks “Safety Center,” which features new tools for parents, teachers, teens and law enforcement, is the first major endeavor from the social networking site and its four-month-old global safety advisory board.
The company unveiled its Safety Center a day after meeting with child advocacy officials in the U.K., who had been pushing the company [...]

At&t Rebrands Self, Shelves Ad Spat With Verizon


Verizon

AT&T Inc.s new “Rethink Possible” sales pitch touts grand visions for untethered Internet access and avoids tearing down its top competitor. It could mean a truce to a battle that experts say had no clear winner.
The new campaign, which debuted last weekend during the Masters golf tournament, tells people AT&T can help them simultaneously talk [...]

Google Adds A Touch Of Microsoft to Applications


Google

The changes introduced Monday include several editing tools for word processing and quicker ways to fill cells in spreadsheets. The new features have long been staples in Microsofts widely used Office suite of software.
Google Inc. has been trying to lure users away from Microsoft Corp.s products for several years in an effort to [...]

Arkansas Teen Accuses Mom Of Facebook Harassment


Facebook

“If Im found guilty on this it is going to be open season” on parents, Denise New said Wednesday.
New, of Arkadelphia, a small college town an hour southwest of Little Rock, said many of her sons postings didnt reflect well on him, so after he failed to log off the social networking site one day [...]


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The publisher of the Chinese edition and publicity agents for the tour believe Ken Aulettas book tour no longer made sense, because even if Chinese media attend, they wont be able to report anything, the author said in a phone interview late Wednesday.
“Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by the New [...]