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Viacom sued Google claiming that their video sharing service YouTube infringed on their copyright.
Google said the lawsuit is a direct threat to freedom on the internet. Viacom on the other hand said the availability of a vast library of the copyrighted works on YouTube and others is the cornerstone of defendants’ business plan.

Samsung indicated that they are going to invest as much as 946.8 billion won on upgrading their memory lines this year.
This investment would be part of their plans to spend 11 trillion won on various departments within this year.
The company said that this latest infusion would help maximize production and improve cost competitiveness.

Asus revealed that they are naming the desktop edition of the EEE PC as EBox.
Asus EBox will be powered with the same Eee’s Linux OS. It would be sold in both white and black color. The device would feature 2GB RAM and 160GB hard disk.

Cisco announced the availability of three patches for their router products. These patches are to fix bugs which are serious enough to crash their products.
One of the patches is to fix denial of service bugs in the SSH software in Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System. It also fixes a similar bug in their Cisco [...]

Samsung launched their new solid state drive. This new drive has a storage capacity of 256 GB.
The company claims that this new drive is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.

SAP said in a statement that they are unlikely to settle with database industry giant Oracle outside the court.
Oracle had filed a lawsuit against SAP last year accusing it of corporate theft and copyright infringement.

Hewlett Packard announced the launch of their new environment friend product HP DeskJet D2545 Printer.
As much as 83% of the printer’s total plastic weight is recycled material.
This printer also uses their HP 60 ink cartridges which are also molded from recycled plastic resins.

Nintendo of America was ordered by the courts to pay $21 million to Anascape for infringing on their patented technologies.
The courts said that Nintendo infringed on patents owned by Anascape in designing controllers for Nintendo Wii and Nintendo GameCube consoles.
The lawsuit was filed way back in 2006.

Microsoft announced that they are now closing down their division which scans and indexes books from libraries.
The company said that the operations were no longer fitting in their plans for its own search services.
Microsoft launched the project to take on similar services provided by arch rival Google.

Symantec revealed that they are working on a web based parental control service that would enable parents to keep a tight watch on what their kids do online.
Symantec said that it is more of a “family online safety” program rather than the usual parent control application.