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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia said it opened its online software and content store, Ovi Store, globally to some 50 million phone users on Tuesday. Nokia aims to follow the success of Apple’s App Store with its new offering. Apple’s store has proved extremely popular, with one billion applications downloaded in less than a year, and […]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – How’s this for a tweet? Twitter is coming to a television near you. The social-networking and micro-blogging service is developing the first TV series that incorporates Twitter into the action of the show. Created by novelist Amy Ephron, sister of Nora and Delia Ephron, the untitled show will feature ordinary […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dell Inc (DELL.O) is still cautious about corporate technology spending, but plans to make acquisitions and aggressively pursue enterprise customers in an effort to win back market share in the United States. Steve Schuckenbrock, president of the No. 2 PC maker’s large enterprise business, said on Thursday that corporations in general […]

PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Technology executives say they are prepared to cut more costs if the downturn proves more prolonged than expected, but finding places to get further savings won’t be easy. The obvious place to look is research and development budgets, which are typically the last things to get cut at tech companies that […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Technology can pull the United States out of recession and help the world’s ailing financial markets work better, Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates told a high-level business summit at the company he co-founded. “The drug companies will get back in high productivity mode. The software, IT revolution — we’re just at the […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday a Texas federal jury ordered the company to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million in damages for infringing a patent. The world’s largest software company, which is involved in a number of legal battles over patents, said the award was unsupported, and plans to […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Acer Inc, the world’s third-largest PC brand, plans to introduce a phone model running on Google’s Android software this year, the head of its phone unit said on Wednesday. The company plans to sell this year around 10 models, with all but one using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software. Aymar de Lencquesaing told […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The software giant has been testing a new version of the service internally under the name of Kumo.com and it may […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc could offer lower-cost versions of the iPhone, and without the obligatory monthly data service plan, in hopes of significantly boosting sales, according to one influential technology analyst. Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York on Monday, on Monday Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said he […]

BOSTON (Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using “cloud computing” technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Symantec Corp, Iron Mountain Inc and others in offering storage as a service […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Nokia unveiled three new cell phone models on Monday, including the cheapest 3G phone to date from the world’s top handset maker. The new 2730 Classic is expected to retail for 80 euros ($108), excluding taxes and operator subsidies, and go on sale from the third quarter of this year. An analyst […]

(Reuters) – Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, will start selling Hewlett-Packard Co’s netbook computers from May 17, according to a statement from Verizon Wireless. The netbook is priced at $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year activation on a mobile broadband plan, the statement said. […]