InternetNews Staff

Network administrators, the custodians of an organization’s passwords and privileges, may want to find another job as Google Inc helps business users set up and manage their own work groups. On Thursday, Google expanded its free software suite, called Google Apps, to the enterprise market to allow coworkers or students to collaborate on documents, calendars […]

British chip designer ARM Holdings will show a prototype mobile phone based on Google’s Android platform next Monday at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, a source close to the company said on Thursday. Google and ARM declined to comment on the report. Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile and Taiwan’s High Tech Computer have said […]

Repairs on two out of three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle East and South Asia should be completed by Sunday, while the third should be fixed by Saturday, cable operators said. Undersea cable connections were disrupted off Egypt’s North Coast last week when segments of two international cables were […]

Enterprise search vendor Autonomy has added new eDiscovery capabilities for virtual environments to its Autonomy Zantaz Introspect software. Autonomy said the new feature in Introspect makes it the first to offer automated search or discovery in a wide range of virtual environments, including VMWare, a process that usually requires a time-consuming, manual set of steps, […]

Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the Federal Communications Commission. There were no new offers for the nationwide “C” block slice of wireless spectrum to top previous high bids totaling $4.74 billion. Tuesday’s pause prompted […]

Time Warner is working on splitting AOL’s audience and access businesses and running the two as independent entities, CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said on Wednesday. AOL’s access business is its dial-up Internet service, while audience is its portal and advertising business. “This should significantly increase AOL’s strategic options,” Bewkes told analysts on a conference call. Bewkes […]

Web search leader Google is planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The report, quoting people close to the situation, said Google was in the late planning stages of a venture and will likely […]

Apple on Tuesday introduced models of its iPhone and iPod touch devices with double the memory available in previous versions. The products come on the heels of Apple’s launch last month of a service that lets iPhone and iPod users rent and download movies to watch on their devices. “There are a lot of users […]

Repair work has started on one of three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and a repair ship was expected to reach a second cable on Tuesday. Undersea cable connections were disrupted off Egypt’s north coast last week when segments of two international […]

Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China’s top Internet search engine Baidu.com, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music files, an international music trade body said. Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) and Warner Music Hong Kong have asked a court to order Baidu to remove all […]

Google might be able to stymie Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo by forging a deal to run Yahoo’s Web search operations or buy a minority stake — but even that risks the ire of antitrust regulators. Microsoft on Friday offered to pay $44.6 billion for Yahoo, an ailing Web star that has been under pressure […]

Internet media company Yahoo said on Monday its music service will now be handled by Rhapsody America, an on-demand subscription service run by RealNetworks and Viacom. According to Yahoo, which previously said it would replace its in-house built Yahoo Music Unlimited service, it would migrate customers to Rhapsody over the coming months, while allowing subscribers […]