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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson became the latest high-profile technology company to disappoint investors with its first quarter earnings report, saying today that low-price handsets from competitors was pinching its profits Sony Ericsson said it earned US$41 million in the first quarter, a 61 percent decrease compared to a year ago, while sales w...
Number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced plans to spin off its Spansion flash memory business, which has been a drag on the parent company's performance amid an industry-wide glut of the technology AMD registered for an initial public offering of the Spansion unit, saying the stock sale could raise as much as US$600 million.
Wireless e-mail connectivity will be a built-in feature on all smartphones by the end of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner that underscores the shift in the hand-held device market and portends massive future changes Gartner said wireless e-mail is on its way to becoming a mainstream mobile application as common as voice communications a...
In a bid to drill into two fertile growth markets with a single service, Google has unveiled a version of its local search tool designed specifically for users of mobile devices The mobile version of Google Local went live this week and seeks to extend many of the same features available at the Web-based local search product to hand-held devices in...
In a move that is seen hastening the alignment of the Internet into deep vertical segments based on relatively narrow content parameters, the Web's governing body has cleared the way for two new top-level domains exclusively for jobs and travel information The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave final approval to t...
Looking to spark growth in what has proven to be a relatively difficult market niche to crack and to provide boosts to their respective bottom lines, America Online and XM Satellite said they would team to create a new online radio service The co-branded service, to be available this summer, will include a free Web-radio offering as well as an enha...
In a move that is seen hastening the alignment of the Internet into deep vertical segments based on relatively narrow content parameters, the Web's governing body has cleared the way for two new top-level domains exclusively for jobs and travel information The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave final approval to t...
In a closely watched case with potentially far-ranging implications about Internet governance, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the U.S. can set certain limits on Web gambling sites located in offshore locations The decision was seen as a partial reversal of last November's ruling against the U.S. In that instance, a three-person commi...
America Online has become the latest to join the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) frenzy, rolling out AOL Internet Phone Service today in selected cities and promising customers an all-in-one bundle that will carry e-mail, instant messages and voice calls AOL is billing the service, seen by analysts as a bid to halt its exodus of subscribers tha...
A new breed of news aggregators could provide Web users with personal control over their content feeds and force portals and other e-commerce companies that rely on content to reach their audience to rethink their approaches While the jury is still out on the eventual impact of Web logs, or blogs, on Internet use, few analysts doubt that they have ...
Google has rolled out a round of price cuts on its enterprise search family of products, even as it boosts the search capacity of its two main product lines in a bid to appeal to more smaller and mid-sized businesses The Google Mini, a search box first made available in January, will be cut in price from US$4,995 to $2,995 and will have the capacit...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is beginning to break out into a more rapid period of growth, fueled by the rollout of the service by trusted telecommunications providers, according to a new report on the emerging trend IDC said VoIP has "clearly come into its own in the U.S." as major incumbent telecoms start to offer the service alongside sta...
Striking off in new directions as it seeks ways to stay ahead of the growing pack in the search industry, Google has unveiled a feature that gives users the ability to see satellite imagery when they view maps and also said it would collect personal video clips for a new service it's testing The satellite map service builds on Google's recent acqui...
Placing a bet that the book-making industry will move away from traditional publishing methods to embrace the efficiencies of the Web, Amazon.com said it has purchased a privately held print-on-demand publisher Amazon paid an undisclosed sum to acquire BookSurge, a Charleston, S.C.-based firm that already sells many of its books through Amazon....
Vertical search, seen by many analysts as the next massive market opportunity in the search space, is quickly becoming one of the most crowded, with a host of new launches in recent days In the past two weeks alone, LookSmart launched a group of five vertical search tools and promised more, Yahoo unveiled the first of what is hinted would be a fami...
A report recommending that VeriSign is well positioned to remain in charge of the ".net" domain name registries is coming under repeated criticism, as the Internet's international governing body finds itself in the eye of yet another controversy The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a report earlier this week from...
Search engine Google marked the one-year anniversary of the debut of its much-hyped Web-based e-mail program by boosting the free storage it gives users to a massive 2 gigabytes and promising to continue to move the bar higher as users' needs expand The move doubles the original 1 GB storage that came when Gmail debuted last April 1 and is seen by ...
Even as IBM distances itself from the personal computer industry -- citing foreign competition as a reason -- and others might be prepared to follow suit, private U.S. investors have stepped forward to bankroll the Chinese company taking over Big Blue's PC wing A group of private investors announced it has agreed to buy a 12 percent stake in Lenovo...
In a move that both validates the technology underlying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and promises to help advance it, especially in terms of security, the Department of Defense (DoD) has taken a step toward developing its own, privately managed VoIP system The DoD said it had awarded Nortel Networks a contract worth up to US$20 million to mi...
EBay has moved closer to scoring a major victory in a long-running legal case after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a finding that patents the auction giant has been found guilty of violating should be revoked The Patent Office issued a preliminary finding suggesting that patents previously issued to MercExchange should be revoked after...
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