Internet News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Apple Inc. has purchased online music company Lala Media Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, in a move it said may signal an expansion of its music strategy. Full Story »

ROME (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the centre of Rome against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Saturday after an Internet call for a "No Berlusconi Day." Full Story »

TEHRAN (AFP) - Most of the Iranian capital's Internet links with the outside world were down on Saturday, two days ahead of planned demonstrations by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has acquired digital music service Lala, as the dominant online music retailer explores new models for selling songs. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Online collaboration startup AppJet said that Google is buying the San Francisco firm and merging its technology with an innovation Wave communication platform the Internet giant is creating. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have finalized the details of their planned Internet search and advertising partnership. Full Story »

An early engineering sample of Intel's upcoming Core i9 chip has been spotted on eBay, way ahead of the processors' scheduled 2010 release date. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market. Full Story »

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - An Ecosia search engine launching Monday is counting on the world's fascination with the Internet to help save Brazilian rainforests and battle global warming. Full Story »

NEW YORK - A New Jersey blogger crossed the line protecting free speech by writing that three federal judges in Chicago "must die" for a decision supporting gun control, a prosecutor said Friday, as the defense countered in closing arguments that giving a passionate opinion is not a crime. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Shares of Web video delivery company Akamai Technologies Inc. rose Friday after two analysts upgraded the stock based on an upbeat outlook for online commerce. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing. Full Story »

Just hours after introducing a public DNS to make the web faster, Google rolled out a new tool that aims to make searching the web a little easier. Google also launched its own dictionary in its quest to offer information to the world. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - The international news agency Reuters launched a new version of its website on Friday, aiming to make it the "best" financial Internet site in the world. Full Story »

Google touts its new, free, Public DNS service as a speedier, safer version for accessing the Web. There's some truth to Google's claims, and its speed advantage may be compounded when a site your browser loads has to access several different URLs to load all of its content. Full Story »

Next week will be a busy one for IT administrators. Microsoft plans to release six patches for December's Patch Tuesday -- three rated critical and three important. The patches will address 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. Full Story »