Datamation Staff

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging site now seeking ways to make money, expanded its terms for users on Thursday to allow advertisers to reach the Internet site’s more than 45 million monthly visitors. Twitter, the two-year-old venture capital-backed company that lets people send an unlimited number of 140-character messages, is just now […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more. “We’ve been looking at very unusual materials for the […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia Oyj plans to skip tailoring software of its upcoming top-of-the-range model N900 to different operators, raising the risk some carriers, who focus on integrating their own software, could refuse to offer the model. Nokia’s plan for phones using its Linux Maemo operating system is the latest twist in a battle between […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Palm Inc on Wednesday announced a lower-priced smartphone in the same family as its popular Palm Pre smartphone, although the move may be overshadowed by rival product launches by Motorola Inc and Apple Inc. Palm said it will start sales of the Pixi, a candy bar-shaped multimedia handset with a full […]

BOSTON (Reuters) – Google Inc’s efforts to persuade businesses to buy its email services suffered a setback this week after a highly publicized outage shut down accounts of millions of corporate customers for almost two hours. The outage — one of several in the past year — underscored fears that Google’s email, still lagging Yahoo […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The biggest U.S. Internet service providers urged regulators to adopt a conservative definition of “broadband,” arguing for minimum speeds that were substantially below many other nations. The submissions were filed with the Federal Communications Commission which had sought comments by August 31 on how the agency should define broadband for a report […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service. Google said at 5:37 p.m. edt (9:37 GMT) that it fixed the problem but was still investigating the cause of the outage, which lasted for over […]

STUTTGART (Reuters) – Nokia on Wednesday bolstered its smartphone line-up to better compete with Apple and put a price on the new laptop leading its foray into the fiercely-competitive netbook market. The handset announcements, the latest moves by the Finnish firm to match Apple’s innovation in a sector switching focus to services and software, left […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is shipping its Chrome browser with Sony Corp PCs, sealing the Internet company’s first such deal since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft. The deal could expand the reach of Google’s fledgling product which lags behind browsers offered by Microsoft Corp and the Mozilla […]

(Reuters) – EBay has signed a definitive agreement to sell Skype in a deal valuing the communications business at $2.75 billion. Here are the highlights. eBay: * Says to receive approximately $1.9 billion in cash; retain approximately 35 percent stake. * Says buyer is investor group led by Silver Lake. * Says buyer is investor […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Monday that it would host a media event next week, when the company is widely expected to unveil an updated line of iPod media players. Apple declined to say what products would be featured at the September 9 event, which was announced in an invitation emailed to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip. AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers […]