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Texas Instruments (TI) unveiled new application chips on Tuesday that can be used in everything from music players to medical equipment, with an aim to expand its business beyond the mobile phone chip market. TI, which faces competition from San Diego-based Qualcomm in the wireless market, said it would address broader markets by expanding its […]

Avistar Communications, a videoconference equipment maker, said on Monday it has been notified that Microsoft has challenged 24 of Avistar’s 29 U.S. patents. Microsoft’s request that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reexamine the patents follows six months of negotiations between the two companies over the patent issues, Avistar said in a statement. Avistar […]

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Internet Service Providers may have inadvertently blocked the popular YouTube Web site across the world this past weekend when they restricted local access to the site, a telecommunications official said. YouTube said on Monday that many users around the world could not access the site for about two hours because traffic had […]

Web search company Google has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecom operators that will link the United States to Japan and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents. Google and the five telecom companies said in a joint statement that the 10,000-kilometer (6,200 mile) undersea fiber-optic […]

Mozilla, which develops open source Web browser Firefox, the biggest alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, aims to at least double its share this year in China, which is set to become the world’s largest Web market. California-based Mozilla expects the going to be tough in a country where consumers are largely unaware of open source […]

Microsoft ramped up the fight to have its Office Open XML document format made into an international standard on Monday as delegates from 37 countries met to reconsider the proposal. Their meeting hosted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva is meant to help broker consensus after a […]

Britain will impose legislation on ISPs by April 2009 if they do not work with the music and film industries to curb illegal downloading, the government said on Friday. The government released a strategy paper to address the problem of illegal file sharing after the two sides failed to come to a voluntary agreement over […]

The U.S. telecommunications industry will grow at a slower rate than the global industry in the coming years as the wireless and wired markets mature, the Telecommunications Industry Association said on Friday. According to a study commissioned by the TIA, the U.S. telecom industry will grow at an average annual rate of 7.2 percent in […]

EU and U.S. senior officials said on Friday they would crack down on counterfeiting of computer components after they seized more than 360,000 fake items in just two weeks in a joint operation at the end of last year. Integrated circuits and computer components of over 40 trademarks including Intel, Cisco and Philips, worth more […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said on Thursday that it would make key technology elements of some of its best-selling software products widely available to boost interoperability of its software with that of competitors and customers. To make connecting Microsoft products with third-party software products easier, Microsoft will publish on its Web site key software blueprints, […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Web search leader Google Inc. plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos after it agreed a partnership with YuMe, an online video advertising network. YuMe, a Redwood City, Calif.-based start-up, said on Thursday, it will serve InVideo overlay adverts as part of Google’s AdSense for video beta advertising […]

Amazon.com announced its support for Sony’s Blu-ray format on Wednesday, days after Toshiba pulled the plug on the rival HD DVD format, as key studios and retailers also took Blu-ray’s side. The online retailer said it would continue to sell HD DVD products for customers who already use that format. The Amazon move comes after […]