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NBC to sell new TV shows on Amazon Unbox
Sep 4 2007 10:17PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - NBC Universal said Tuesday it will sell episodes of its new fall television shows using Amazon's Unbox digital download service, after the network failed to reach an agreement with Apple Inc. last week to offer the shows on iTunes.
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Yahoo buying ad network for $300 million
Sep 4 2007 9:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.
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UN: World now has 4 billion phone lines
Sep 4 2007 7:56PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion lines worldwide, according to a report Tuesday from the U.N. telecommunications agency.
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Virtual Bernanke guides 'Second Life'
Sep 4 2007 7:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Just before U.S. financial markets were roiled by a global credit squeeze this summer, an equally dramatic financial crisis threatened "Second Life," the much-hyped online world.
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ATM makers see ties to cell phones, PDAs
Sep 4 2007 7:35PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Diebold Inc. and NCR Corp., long key players and staunch competitors in the automated teller machines market, are both firming up strategies for communicating with an ATM by cell phone or personal digital assistant.
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MetroPCS offers $5.12B for Leap
Sep 4 2007 5:34PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Wireless phone provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. publicly offered Tuesday to buy a regional rival for more than $5 billion in stock, a long-anticipated move that would create a nationwide wireless carrier dedicated to the discount market.
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MetroPCS offers $5.12B for Leap
Sep 4 2007 5:34PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Wireless phone provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. publicly offered Tuesday to buy a regional rival for more than $5 billion in stock, a long-anticipated move that would create a nationwide wireless carrier dedicated to the discount market.
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Microsoft loses vote on file standards
Sep 4 2007 3:26PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday.
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Google ad trademark suit dismissed
Sep 4 2007 2:36PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A home decor merchant has dropped a federal lawsuit attacking Google Inc.'s practice of connecting some online ads to trademarks, handing the Internet search leader its latest legal victory on the prickly issue.
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Google ad trademark suit dismissed
Sep 4 2007 2:36PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A home decor merchant has dropped a federal lawsuit attacking Google Inc.'s practice of connecting some online ads to trademarks, handing the Internet search leader its latest legal victory on the prickly issue.
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Unauthorized iPhones on sale in China
Sep 4 2007 2:18PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The iPhone can be bought in China, even though Apple Inc. isn't selling it there and the gadget doesn't function properly despite costing twice as much as in the United States.
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AT&T sells parental cell phone controls
Sep 4 2007 1:55PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads _ all at a parent's fingertips.
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FCC leaves public in the dark
Sep 4 2007 1:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's odd for an agency that has the word "communications" as its middle name, but the Federal Communications Commission routinely leaves the public in the dark about how it makes critical policy decisions.
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Texas startup says it has batteries beat
Sep 4 2007 8:19AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
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Sony may start movie download service
Sep 4 2007 6:34AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Sony may soon compete directly with Apple and its popular iPods and iTunes, producing its own movie download service and products, company officials said Tuesday.
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