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Sony Ericsson and Google have introduced a phone aimed at a rapidly growing segment of Internet users -- bloggers. The phones will integrate Google's Blogger and Web search features on Sony Ericsson's mobile phones. The blog application will be tightly integrated to the camera and provide automatic ...

More mobile video is slated to come to the consumer marketplace via a service dubbed "Mobizzo" announced by News Corp.'s Fox Mobile Entertainment this week. The service will offer games, music, mobile phone wallpaper and ringtones, including Fox programming such as episodes of "Family Guy" and films...

America Online and Yahoo are under fire for plans to charge for e-mail. A group of nonprofit and public interest groups on Tuesday launched a campaign to protest the online giants' scheme to charge high-volume e-mail senders a fee in exchange for a guarantee that their messages will be delivered. AO...

Broadband penetration of the nation's rural areas has more than doubled since 2003, but it still lags behind urban and suburban areas by a substantial margin, according to a survey released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. By the end of 2005, surveyors found, 24 percent of ...

Most households that are not on the Web already have little intention of logging on. So says a study released by market researcher Parks Associates on Friday. The study found few new households willing to subscribe to Internet services, which, the study predicted, would limit 2006 growth in overall ...

The era of the networked home has finally arrived, as sales are soaring for IP-enabled multimedia devices. According to a new study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, sales in the U.S. of Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled devices rose by more than 500 percent to 16 million units in 2005, as consumers ...

Television fans are getting more and more TV to go from Apple's iTunes and other services, including access to exclusive online offerings such as the broadcast-TV first announced Thursday by NBC. The network said the pilot episode of its new series "Conviction" will be available for free on iTunes ...

Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again. The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator on Thursday to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace. Specifically, Google Page Creator is t...

Back in the 1950s, Elvis Presley and other recording artists put out plenty of hit singles like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog," and consumers clamored for the tunes. By the 1960s, with the success of "The Beatles (The White Album)" and blockbusters from other big groups, the album became the ma...

Results of a new study dramatically challenge the conventional wisdom on the benefits of the Internet, and indicate that the Web may actually "inhibit" productivity for some workers. The study, undertaken by Lieberman Research Worldwide for San Mateo, Calif.-based Rearden Commerce, an online marketp...

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is the latest in the industry to jump on the fast-moving streaming video bandwagon. DoCoMo said on Friday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Real Networks to jointly deploy software to bring video streaming capabilities to its mobile phones....

Mobile brand Helio on Thursday announced plans to target the lucrative U.S. youth market with two South Korean-made cell phones and a content deal with popular social networking site MySpace. Helio's Hero and Kickflip multimedia handsets are set to debut this spring. "Helio is for those of us who wa...

A growing number of corporations are installing Voice over Internet Protocol applications. While the technology has the potential to cut their telecommunications costs, it also presents new challenges. "IT managers are looking for their vendors to offer them ways to monitor and improve VoIP performa...

Opera Software on Wednesday announced an agreement with Nintendo to provide a browser that will allow video game lovers to surf the full Internet from their handheld systems. "The incredibly popular Nintendo DS is already WiFi enabled to support real time gaming, so adding Web browsing capabilities ...

European cellular network provider Virgin Mobile is the first company in Europe to offer its customers the latest in wireless content: digital TV and radio services. Virgin Mobile will begin selling smartphones that can receive the service later this year, it said. Users can see and hear the content...

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