Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1089 technology Internet Portals and Search Engines en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:20 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1089 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/tc_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles afp/20091107/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles AFP technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/tc_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257566678296-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ASmLd9evIRKBtqidUCEz.Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/tc_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257566678296-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ASmLd9evIRKBtqidUCEz.Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091107/tc_pcworld/pcworldpodcast52motodroidinvadesattsuesverizonandbluebeatripsoffthebeatles pcworld/20091107/pcworldpodcast52motodroidinvadesattsuesverizonandbluebeatripsoffthebeatles PC World business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT PC World - This week on the PC World Podcast, Hassle-Free PC blogger Rick Broida joins PC World editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan for a half-hour discussion of the week's biggest tech stories. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_mu/us_emi_beatles_lawsuit ap/20091106/us_emi_beatles_lawsuit AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:56:10 GMT AP - A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/tc_afp/usitinternetmicrosoftgoogleyahoo afp/20091106/usitinternetmicrosoftgoogleyahoo AFP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:26:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/tc_afp/usitinternetmicrosoftgoogleyahoo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257549814241-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=eTGnCU7Lv3cvhvDdvxKjbQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A view of the Microsoft cffices in Herndon, Virginia. Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/tc_afp/usitinternetmicrosoftgoogleyahoo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257549814241-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=eTGnCU7Lv3cvhvDdvxKjbQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A view of the Microsoft cffices in Herndon, Virginia. Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/salesboycottovermodernwarfare2withsteamtrojanhorse pcworld/20091106/salesboycottovermodernwarfare2withsteamtrojanhorse PC World technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:06:00 GMT PC World - Steam, it seems, may finally have tromped across the proverbial bridge too far. The online PC games storefront with the sales leverage of a lion but the transparency of a two-way mirror reportedly signed a deal with Activision to load its Steamworks technology into retail and digitally distributed PC copies of Modern Warfare 2, and online sales competitors are bristling. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091106/tc_nf/69922 nf/20091106/69922 NewsFactor technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:33 GMT NewsFactor - If you're worried that your employees or children are disengaging from the world by using the Internet and cell phones, relax. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that these technologies have not increased social isolation in the U.S. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091106/tc_nf/69926 nf/20091106/69926 NewsFactor technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:00 GMT NewsFactor - On Friday, EMI won an injunction against BlueBeat.com, forcing the web site to stop selling Beatles songs without permission. The London-based record label alleged that the music site was breaching its copyrights. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091106/tc_nf/69927 nf/20091106/69927 NewsFactor technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:06:46 GMT NewsFactor - A new product that gives users a new level of insight into what the world's biggest search engine knows about them was launched Thursday. Google Dashboard lets users see reports on the data Google has collected on them. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_broadband_mapping_mass ap/20091106/us_broadband_mapping_mass AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:37:26 GMT AP - Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/uslawmakersproposechangesintelecomsubsidies pcworld/20091106/uslawmakersproposechangesintelecomsubsidies PC World business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:30:14 GMT PC World - Two U.S. lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow money from a huge fund that subsidizes telephone and mobile service to parts of the U.S. to also go for broadband deployment. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_minnesota_internet_access ap/20091106/us_minnesota_internet_access AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:22 GMT AP - Internet speeds in more than four-fifths of Minnesota are too slow to support technologies that could draw new jobs, take cars off the roads and bring new services to people in their homes, a new report said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_windstream_acquisition ap/20091106/us_windstream_acquisition AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:41:00 GMT AP - Windstream Corp.'s acquisition of D&E Communications Inc. phone and Internet company has the approval of Pennsylvania state utility regulators. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/pl_nm/us_telecom_fund_congress nm/20091106/us_telecom_fund_congress Reuters business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:22 GMT Reuters - U.S. lawmakers said on Friday they introduced a measure aimed at overhauling an annual fund intended to ensure nationwide telephone service in high-cost, rural areas by including money for high-speed Internet use. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_skype_suit_settlement ap/20091106/us_tec_skype_suit_settlement AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:38 GMT AP - EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/eu_france_disabled_and_online ap/20091106/eu_france_disabled_and_online AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:02:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/eu_france_disabled_and_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.ff0b88778bfb479295331217827d21b3.france_disabled_and_online_par501.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=CQyT70cYqIu4TwDeIWiN3w--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This August, 15, 2009 hand out photo provided by Didier Lamic shows his 32-year-old daughter, Anne Lamic, dozing in bed in Tallard, French Alps region. Diagnosed with servere cerebral palsy, Anne Lamic's parents are planning to broadcast her quiet life to the world via webcam . (AP Photo/Didier Lamic/HO )" border="0" /></a>AP - Disabled with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in southeastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak or walk, and she sometimes has seizures.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/eu_france_disabled_and_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.ff0b88778bfb479295331217827d21b3.france_disabled_and_online_par501.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=CQyT70cYqIu4TwDeIWiN3w--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="This August, 15, 2009 hand out photo provided by Didier Lamic shows his 32-year-old daughter, Anne Lamic, dozing in bed in Tallard, French Alps region. Diagnosed with servere cerebral palsy, Anne Lamic's parents are planning to broadcast her quiet life to the world via webcam . (AP Photo/Didier Lamic/HO )" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/ebayreachesdealwithskypefoundersyourgabbingissafe pcworld/20091106/ebayreachesdealwithskypefoundersyourgabbingissafe PC World technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:00 GMT PC World - Skype users can breathe easier, now that one of technology's greatest business blunders has been fixed. The outside chance of a Skype shutdown has gone away, messy lawsuits have been resolved, and Skype's founders are back helping run the company. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091106/tc_zd/245822 zd/20091106/245822 PC Magazine technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:23:56 GMT PC Magazine - An intellectual property organization has denied a request by Glenn Beck to take down a Web site with a domain name that the talk show host claimed improperly used his name and defamed his name. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_dvd_price_war ap/20091106/us_dvd_price_war AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:55:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_dvd_price_war"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.17af46b739264e76ac3c9f2075069064.dvd_price_war_nybz159.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=CVgYUEzgKsk9XYGZuIn4VQ--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="In this screen shot taken from WalMart.com, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.(AP Photo/WalMart.com)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_dvd_price_war"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.17af46b739264e76ac3c9f2075069064.dvd_price_war_nybz159.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=CVgYUEzgKsk9XYGZuIn4VQ--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="In this screen shot taken from WalMart.com, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.(AP Photo/WalMart.com)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wr_nm/us_ferragamo_museum_life nm/20091106/us_ferragamo_museum_life Reuters technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:03 GMT Reuters - Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo has taken a museum detailing its history and culture online, allowing young designers to add their creative touch to its shoe models. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/portals/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wr_nm/us_trade_censorship nm/20091106/us_trade_censorship Reuters technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:08:49 GMT Reuters - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.