Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said on Thursday it would launch the next-generation, high-definition optical disk recorder based on the HD DVD format on July 14 in Japan.

Toshiba expects the world’s first HD DVD recorder, equipped with hard disk drive, to sell for 398,000 yen ($3,466).

Source: Reuters

Adobe Systems Inc. said on Wednesday Google Inc. had agreed to pay the multimedia software maker a “significant” amount to distribute Google’s Web search software over several years.

Adobe said it had begun distributing Google search software with new downloads of Adobe’s Macromedia Shockwave multimedia playback software, which allows users to view interactive Web programming such as games, entertainment, business presentations, and advertisements via a Web browser.

Source: Reuters