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Article | 31/07/2008 Italian media company sues YouTube

Italian media conglomerate Mediaset Group has sued YouTube for 500 million euro, alleging the Google video-sharing site illegally hosts thousands of v...

Article | 29/07/2008 Mobile executives spar over iPhone

Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion threw down the gauntlet to Symbian, Android and other software platforms to match the impa...

Article | 25/07/2008 Users may help to vet Android apps

Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.

Article | 18/07/2008 AMD appoints new CEO as losses continue

Advanced Micro Devices has replaced Hector Ruiz with Dirk Meyer as its CEO, as the company reported its seventh consecutive quarterly net loss on Thur...

Article | 18/07/2008 US Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls

The US Air Force is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support its missions despite wariness about security, a civilian technology official of the s...

Article | 11/07/2008 Gadget addict Woz will line up for iPhone 3G

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will be in line all Thursday night to buy an iPhone 3G, but he said most of his friends with the original device aren't ...

Article | 7/07/2008 A tale of two city Wi-Fi's

Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different results, with one projec...

Article | 2/07/2008 Verizon, Rhapsody team up on mobile music

Rhapsody America, the joint online music service of RealNetworks and MTV Networks, on Monday began selling songs from all major labels in the MP3 form...

Article | 26/06/2008 AT&T rolls out digital content delivery system

Enterprise multimedia is moving out of the do-it-yourself phase as carriers offer services over their own infrastructure to entities that want to reac...

Article | 23/05/2008 Craigslist tops US mobile browsing

Mobile Web surfers in the US spend more time on classified-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site, and they spent nearly twice as much time bro...

Article | 22/05/2008 Time Warner to make $9.25 billion from cable spin-off

Time Warner will gain US$9.25 billion -- and more flexibility in running its remaining businesses -- from its spin-off of Time Warner Cable later this...

Article | 2/05/2008 EMC extends Mozy online storage to Macs

The MozyHome online backup service became generally available on Thursday after a long beta test and the acquisition of its creator by EMC.

Article | 23/04/2008 Seagate ships one-billionth hard drive

Seagate announced Tuesday that it has shipped 1 billion hard drives since pioneering an industry that shows no signs of slowing down 29 years later.

Article | 23/04/2008 Sony to buy Gracenote music data company

Sony Corp. of America will buy Gracenote, which made its name with software that identifies digital music files, for about $US260 million.

Article | 15/04/2008 Samsung, partners push mobile TV

Samsung Electronics and several other vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters show this week are demonstrating a pending mobile TV broadca...