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Viacom accused Google of turning a blind eye to illegal video clips on its YouTube site in a bid to attract viewers, according to court documents released on Thursday. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) countered that Viacom (NYSE: VIA) managers continued to secretly upload content to YouTube even after the media company had filed the $1 billion […]

Cellphone developer HTC said it is confident it can fight off a recent technology patent infringement lawsuit from iPhone maker Apple and promised to issue a formal response in the next few weeks. The comments released on Thursday follow a lawsuit from Apple earlier this month, accusing HTC of infringing on 20 iPhone-related technology patents. […]

Google’s Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint Nextel, the second U.S. wireless service provider to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone. Sprint (NYSE: S) said on Wednesday it would announce the pricing and availability date soon for the Nexus One. The smartphone is the first that Google (NASDAQ: […]

Google should obey Chinese government rules even if it decides to retreat from the country over hacking and censorship complaints, a Chinese government spokesman said on Tuesday. Investors sold off Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares a day earlier after signs the company could soon shut its Web search site in China, Google.cn, two months after saying […]

Some U.S. TV broadcasters have indicated they support a proposal to give up their airwaves to help resolve a shortage of spectrum for advanced mobile phone services, the top communications regulator said. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said “a number of broadcasters” were open to his plan, which would call for them to give […]

U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours. Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average is one of the myriad goals to be […]

Dell, the world’s third-largest PC maker, has filed a lawsuit against Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba and two other companies for alleged price fixing of LCD displays. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) filed the suit at a U.S. district court in San Francisco on Friday against the group of five firms, which also includes Japan’s Seiko Epson and Taiwan’s […]

China warned Google, the world’s largest search engine, against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security. The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese authorities on offering an uncensored […]

Apple has awarded its chief operating officer a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company while Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on 6-months’ medical leave last year. The cash-and-stock award came at Jobs’ recommendation, and was made in recognition of Tim Cook’s “outstanding performance in assuming the day-to-day operations” at Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) […]

What recession? Despite the moribund economy in the U.S. and abroad, virtually all of the wealthiest technology chieftains managed to increase their net worth to nose-bleed elevations last year, according to Forbes’ latest list of the world’s billionaires. However, primarily due to his penchant for philanthropy, Microsoft’s Bill Gates was knocked from his familiar perch […]

Media companies longing to bring a paid-for culture to the Internet might just get what they want if they pay more attention to the smartphone revolution that is changing the way people access the Web. Huge numbers now use mobile phones instead of desktop computers to get online — a development that has spawned whole […]

Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese Google.cn portal and to pull back from China, citing problems of censorship and a hacking attack from within the country. “I’m going to use […]