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Business software units of Yahoo Inc and Google Inc are introducing beefed-up versions of their Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook, offering yet another clue why Microsoft Corp made a $45 billion unsolicited bid for Yahoo.

A good place to see the true frontline in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the bowels of the British Library in London.

The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a "huge revolution", Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday.

The high-definition DVD format war has not been won, at least not in the minds of the retailers.
Last week, Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studio said it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in Blu-ray format instead of Toshiba Corp's competing HD DVD technology.

Napster Inc, one of the largest digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought online.

Neighbors of a former IBM plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.

Motorola Inc on Thursday unveiled a mobile media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips and programming saved on digital video recorders.

Video recording on cellphones is set to reach high definition (HD) quality in a few years' time, an executive at the world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday.

Google Inc said on Friday that the company would bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, pitting it against established telecommunications players AT&T and Verizon.

Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest Web retailer, launched Askville.com, an information-sharing Web site where users can ask questions and answer queries from others, on Thursday.

Viacom Inc's MTV Networks is eyeing an expansion of its myMTV mobile video social network to other countries beyond Japan, said MTV's president for global digital media, Mika Salmi, on Wednesday.

The United States is working to prevent attacks on military, government and private computer networks, but any aggressive response raises legal, civil rights and policy questions that should be addressed, a U.S. military adviser said on Tuesday.

Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it will open its network to any phone or software application by the end of 2008, becoming the first major U.S. mobile service to cave in to demands by Google Inc.

Google Inc is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.

Picture having an Olympian view of millions of photos the world's photographers and cameraphone users have produced over the last day.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil its closely-guarded electronic book reader in New York on Monday, a source told Reuters.

Teachers need extra protection from pupils who abuse or humiliate them on "rate my teacher" Web sites, a British union leader said on Thursday.

A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts.

Companies are rushing to serve up advertisements with online videos, but that doesn't mean anybody is paying attention to the promotions for cars, soap or sneakers.

VMware Inc, a global leader in virtualization software, said on Thursday it hopes to expand rapidly in China, a market where it has only recently established a toehold.