Internet advertising - new search engine may beat Google: Gates (AFP)AFP - Microsoft's

Internet advertising - new search engine may beat Google: Gates (AFP)AFP - Microsoft's

Microsoft's new search engine may beat Google: Gates (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft's new search engine may rival or even surpass the world's most popular web tool Google, Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates said.

Podcasting: A New Chapter in the History of Radio (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple's launch of its Podcasting Directory for iTunes on Tuesday marks more than the unveiling of yet another add-on technology. It represents a bet by one of Silicon Valley's most visionary companies that the history of audio distribution just started another chapter.

EU weighs plan to help online music market -source (Reuters)
Reuters - A European Union initiative to fosterEU-wide licensing of online music use and royalty collection isdue in early July to help spur jobs and creativity, a sourceclose to the situation said on Thursday.

Live 8 concert Webcasts to be available in China (Reuters)
Reuters - America Online will license the rightsto broadcast Live 8 concerts to a Chinese Internet mediacompany, potentially reaching the world's single largestpopulation, AOL said it would announce on Friday.

Startup Blinkx Searches Podcasts, Video Blogs (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Blinkx, a startup company trying to build a name with video search, adds to its online service the ability to search podcasts and video blogs.

Nextel Tests High-Speed Wireless Internet (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com - Nextel Communications Inc. of Reston said yesterday it would test a new high-speed wireless technology in the Washington area. The trial, which is scheduled to begin in the fall, will take place in the District, Arlington, Alexandria, Reston and Bethesda, but the service will not be commercially available.

U.S. Won't Cede Control of Net Computers (AP)
AP - The U.S. government will indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control traffic on the Internet, ignoring calls by some countries to turn the function over to an international body, a senior official said Thursday.

T-Online acquires Albura for 61.5 million euros (AFP)
AFP - T-Online, Europe's leading Internet services provider and a unit of Deutsche Telekom, said it had acquired Spanish network operator Albura from energy group Red Electrica for 61.5 million euros (74.4 million dollars) including debt.