Archive for February 13th, 2007
LG Electronics and Yahoo! today announced a new strategic global partnership to distribute Yahoo!’s services on tens of millions of LG mobile phones in more than 70 countries around the world. Beginning later in 2007, LG will pre-load Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on many of its mobile phones. The recently launched Yahoo! oneSearch, will also be available.
February 13th, 2007
A Belgian court ruled today that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers. Copiepresse, a copyright protection group representing 18 mostly French-language newspapers, had complained, that the Google’s cached links offered free access to archived articles that the papers usually sell on a subscription basis.
The court ordered Google to remove all articles, photos or links from Google News, that it displays without the newspapers permission.
In the future, it said it would be up to the copyright owners to get in touch with Google, to complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google then has to remove the content within 24 hours or face a fine of 1,000 Euros ($1,300) daily.
February 13th, 2007
Yahoo! today launched a new gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, a month after the new service initially launched in beta. The new gamma version features the ability for consumers to search directly from maps and share oneSearch results, news articles and the service directly with friends.
The new gamma version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 also includes display ads from major global advertisers. The advertisements will run in several of the Widgets, near the top of the page. Consumers will be able to click on these interactive ads to directly call the advertiser or to learn more information about the advertiser’s offer.
February 13th, 2007