Canonical and Dell have announced a partnership to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on select desktop and notebook products
Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year. The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick’s advertisement software and, more importantly, its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies
Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is awesome, he’s turning down endorsement deals and bring a $15 basketball shoe to market. If you’ve ever wondered why basketball shoes were so expensive, the answer is — because they can be. It’s an interesting culture hack, and parents/kids who can’t afford $150+ for pricey shoes can still hit the court
Europe’s biggest drug company has announced it is taking the first steps towards marketing a vaccine in Africa from which it never expects to make money. GlaxoSmithKline says it has begun filing documents with the regulatory authorities concerning its meningitis vaccine called Globorix
EcoPods are environmentally friendly coffins made from recycled paper. Whether you’re worried about the state of the planet, or just want to be sure that you’ll have an easy climb back out of the grave, should the zombiism take hold, this seems like a good idea — via Boing Boing
Four Amway distributors have been ordered to pay Proctor and Gamble over $19 million in compensation. The four had spread rumours that the company was involved in Satanism, and the case has dragged on for over a decade. The judge had earlier decided that Amway itself could not be held responsible for the actions of its self-employed distributors — via The Pagan Prattle
Viacom says it will sue Google and YouTube for US$1 billion. Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally. Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times. Google says it is confident
that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web’s most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. Three YouTube channels — one for news and two for entertainment — will showcase short clips of BBC content. The BBC hopes that the deal will help it reach YouTube’s monthly audience of more than 70 million users and drive extra traffic to its own website. The corporation will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by traffic to the new YouTube channels
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months. The online service is part of a larger move to introduce ad-supported online services to complement its existing products and broaden the company reach into the consumer market
Google is planning to sell Australian users licences for its web-based office productivity suite, Google Apps, under a local-currency pricing scheme
I’m sure many people wondered if Google will release a presentation tool, after building Google Docs&Spreadsheets. Well, the answer is yes, and the code-name of the tool is Presently (a play on Writely, the name of the online word processor bought by Google). You will be able to convert a document into a presentation, create slides and view the presentation in full-screen
The British Broadcasting Corporation said Monday that it was in discussions with the search engine company Google about putting some of the BBC’s programming on the online video site YouTube
Banks and credit card companies are rushing to notify their customers to keep an eye out for fraudulent activity on their accounts after several retailers discovered thefts of customer data from their computer systems. TJX, the parent company of Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and several other national chains, said hackers breached a system that handles credit card, debit card, and check transactions in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company also said there is a possibility the breach is as far-reaching as the United Kingdom and Ireland
Dell is the target of a class action suit on behalf of Canadian consumers who purchased several models of Inspiron notebooks. The suit claims the computer maker knowingly sold faulty machines
Google has quickly fixed a flaw that reportedly exposed the contact lists of Gmail users to spammers, giving them, at least in theory, a new source of e-mail addresses for hawking their wares. When users access Gmail, Google’s Web-based e-mail service, their contact lists are stored in a JavaScript file on their hard drives. Before the flaw was patched, a malicious Web site could have read that file, extracting the list of contacts, then sending that data to spammers
Palm is buying — or rather, buying back — what it used to own. This week, Palm announced that it purchased a perpetual license to the Palm Garnet operating system from Access Systems
An internet advertising firm called Zango has agreed to pay $US3 million (AU$4 million) to the US government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers
Forgent Networks has settled its lawsuit concerning the so-called JPEG patents for US$8 million, a fraction of what the company initially sought
Vodafone Australia is poised to turn its back on its 12-year mobile-only strategy, and planning to open a tender for a landline broadband partner, with the aim of earning $200 million in revenue from fixed-line services within three years
Telecom New Zealand is making a further attempt to offload its struggling Australian business AAPT, opening talks with a number of junior telcos less than six months after failing to find a buyer for around $450 million. TNZ is now believed to be in talks with NSW-based Soul — which is controlled by WH Soul Pattison — about selling its retail fixed-line business, the fourth biggest in the country. AAPT is also in separate talks with infrastructure player Powertel — which holds a 19 per cent stake in Perth-based broadband company iiNet — to build a credible third force in broadband internet services
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