Microsoft, TomTom find way to settlement Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it settled a patent dispute over car navigation technology with TomTom NV for an undisclosed amount. In February, Microsoft filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington and with the International Trade Commission against TomTom NV and its U.S. subsidiary, TomTom Inc., claiming their car navigation systems infringed on patented technology that let vehicle computer systems run more than one application at a time, provide more natural driving directions and access the Internet, among other functions.
Disney to provide videos to YouTube The Walt Disney Co. says it has agreed to provide short-form videos from its ABC and ESPN television properties to run on Google Inc.'s YouTube in an ad-revenue sharing arrangement.
Romanian gets 4 years in Internet theft ring A Romanian citizen was sentenced in Bridgeport, Conn., Monday to more than four years in prison as the first foreign defendant convicted in a global crime ring that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Internet users. Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman pleaded guilty last year to his role in the scheme, which involved sending e-mails that directed recipients to fake websites where they were asked to input sensitive data.
Music download site for China launched Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China on Monday in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business.
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