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Article | 1/02/2008 Amazon buys Audible for US$300 million

Amazon.com has begun a new chapter in its battle for customers' ears: it has agreed to pay US$300 million for Audible, a seller of audio books that ha...

Article | 29/01/2008 Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $US153M

Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner ($US153 million) ...

Article | 8/01/2008 Sony-BMG to sell DRM-free music downloads through stores

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection o...

Article | 28/12/2007 US court of appeals hands Google a patent setback

Google's browser toolbar is back in court on patent infringement charges, after a U.S. court of appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. Goo...

Article | 28/11/2007 New legal guidelines proposed for online games

Video games that include an online element expose players and publishers to a host of new risks for which they must prepare. That's the message from F...

Article | 17/11/2007 Google needs telco partner for 700MHz bid, say analysts

Google is making the necessary preparations to bid for wireless spectrum in an auction be held in the US in January -- but it will likely need a carri...

Article | 24/10/2007 MySpace to add games from Oberon

Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from...

Article | 24/07/2007 Orange makes nine-country deal to boost music-phone use

Mobile phone operator Orange is expecting the iPhone to raise awareness of its mobile music services -- but it's with Sony Ericsson that it is workin...

Article | 21/06/2007 Security concerns prompt French BlackBerry ban

French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry de...

Article | 16/03/2007 CEBIT - DSL gateways will mark video to catch pirates

Another role could soon be added to the many already performed by home gateway devices: identifying video pirates.

Article | 9/01/2007 CES - Sling brings TV to Vista, Palm - and HP notebooks

Users of Sling Media's "placeshifting" system, Slingbox, will soon be able to watch their home TVs on Palm smart phones running Palm OS, consumer lapt...

Article | 7/12/2006 Yahoo Music continues DRM-free download experiment

Yahoo put another music track without DRM (digital rights management) on sale through its Yahoo Music service Tuesday.

Article | 28/09/2006 Sony will begin selling e-book reader by end of October

Sony will begin selling an electronic-book reader in stores and on the Web in the U.S. by the end of October, and has opened a dedicated online bookst...

Article | 5/04/2006 Virgin Mobile accepts NTL's £962 million bid

NTL's bid for British mobile phone company Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) PLC has won the approval of Virgin Mobile's board, the companies announced Tues...

Article | 1/03/2006 Mobile phone sales reached record levels in 2005

Mid-size manufacturers are being squeezed out of the worldwide mobile phone market, even though it grew by 21 percent in 2005, market analyst Gartner ...