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Lawsuit Says Cable, Sat TV Plans Rip Off Viewers

Forcing consumers to buy prepackaged tiers of bundled TV channels is a violation of trade and anti-trust laws, contends a lawsuit filed in the federal court against media companies and cable/satellite TV providers. The complaint, filed by Los Angeles lawyers Maxwell Blecher and David Kesselman on be...

Google Apps Pairs Up With Capgemini to Go After Big Fish

Google signaled its intention to go after enterprise users by announcing a partnership with a French firm that will help it deliver Google Apps as a Web-based service. Capgemini, a major global provider of outsourced business technology, will now provide professional support for enterprises that ado...

Being Bugs Bunny: Warner Bros. Goes Virtual

Warner Bros. Entertainment is launching a new multifaceted, multimedia Web site that will let people immerse themselves in, and even play the part of, their favorite Warner Bros., Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics characters. Called "T-Works," the endeavor is being described by Warner Bros. ...

ITT Wins $1.8B Contract for GPS Air Traffic System

ITT this week emerged the winner of a lucrative contract with the Federal Aviation Administration to design and build the first component of a new satellite-guided air traffic control system. The $207 million initial contract is for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveilla...

Sales Exec Out as Yahoo Struggles to Find Itself

As Yahoo struggles to compete with Google and other big Internet players for ad revenue, its management team keeps experimenting with new structures. A leaked memo revealed this week that the company's longtime global head of advertising sales is leaving in the latest shuffle. In the confidential me...

Layoffs Necessary for EarthLink’s Survival, CEO Says

A day after struggling Internet service provider EarthLink announced a major restructuring, the company's leader said the decision to lay off about 900 employees was painful to make but necessary if the Internet pioneer is to survive. The cost cuts announced Tuesday should help the Atlanta company s...

Game Console Sales: Like Christmas in July

When it comes to sales, Nintendo's Wii continues to lead the pack of current-generation video game consoles, according to NPD Group. However, the real eye-opener, from NPD's perspective, is the unexpected mid-summer sales boom involving just about everything related to the games. Those following the...

Advertising Invades YouTube Videos

Visitors to YouTube will now find advertisements temporarily appearing at the bottom of some videos as the Google-owned site experiments with ways to draw revenue to itself and to those who produce the clips. Initiated with little fanfare, the advertising program currently involves only videos creat...

Google Remains Goliath in Online Search

Google continues to win the battle for Internet search dominance, according to the latest findings of Web traffic measurement firm comScore. The Reston, Va.-based Internet metrics company said its July numbers show Google leading the field of what it considers the top five search engines. According ...

Nokia Pushes for Qualcomm Chip Ban as Patent Battle Builds

Nokia has thrown another punch in its longstanding patent battle with Qualcomm by asking the government to block imports of some Qualcomm products. In a complaint filed with the United States International Trade Commission, Nokia alleges Qualcomm engaged in unfair trade practices by infringing on fi...

Microsoft Wraps Up $6B aQuantive Buy

Completing its largest acquisition ever, Microsoft closed its $6 billion purchase of digital advertising player aQuantive, then created a new business unit to encompass aQuantive and its three companies: Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas Solutions and DRIVE Performance Solutions. Formed in 1997 and based ...

EA Exec Dons Microsoft Jersey

John Schappert, who helped create and grow the "Madden NFL" franchise of video games, has taken a position with Microsoft's Live interactive entertainment division. Schappert moves to Microsoft from Electronic Arts, following in the footsteps of his former boss at EA, Don Mattrick, who will now be h...

Cisco Rakes in Profits, Plots Course for Web 2.0

Cisco Systems released fourth quarter and fiscal year results that heartened technology investors and, according to the networking giant's CEO, reflected "great execution across the company." For the year, Cisco reported net sales of $34.9 billion, a 23 percent increase over its 2006 sales figure, a...

Virtual Penguin World Now Part of Disney Magic

Club Penguin, a quickly growing virtual world targeted at children, is now part of the Disney empire. Disney grabbed the company for $350 million in cash plus up to $350 million more based on the site's earnings over the next two years. Club Penguin is exactly the type of online entertainment proper...

Filtering Software Makes YouTube Copyright Cop

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...

Judge Tells Facebook Challengers to Do More Homework

A federal judge on Wednesday gave the founders of Facebook challenger ConnectU two weeks to shore up their case against the popular social networking site, indicating he thinks the lawsuit is based on a shaky foundation. The plaintiffs contend Mark Zuckerberg surreptitiously stole their idea for a W...

Lawsuit Over Code Theft Could Shelve Facebook

A federal judge in Boston is set to hear arguments this week in a case that accuses Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the code on which he built his massively popular Web site. The lawsuit could at least damage the young Web 2.0 entrepreneur's reputation, and at worst result in a Facebook...

Investors Pummel Netflix on Price Cut News

The price war between movie rental companies Blockbuster and Netflix continued Sunday when Netflix slashed by $1 the price of two DVD rental subscription plans. The $1 reduction will benefit most of Netflix's 6 million customers because it affects two of its most popular rental packages, Netflix sai...

60Frames to Pull Hollywood Heavies Into Web Video Scene

A Hollywood talent agency and an Internet advertising company are joining forces in a new venture designed to help create, find advertisers for and distribute over the Web professionally produced short-form video content. The new company, 60Frames Entertainment, has secured $3.5 million in funding f...

Nielsen//NetRatings Starts the Clock on Web Metrics

Reacting to changes in Internet browsing fostered by Web 2.0 applications, Internet market research company Nielsen//NetRatings is adding to its toolbox two new ways of measuring Web site use. The company's NetView syndicated Internet audience measurement service will now include "Total Minutes" and...

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