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Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm said on Wednesday an unfavorable ruling in a patent dispute with Broadcom would hurt its business in the short term, sending its shares lower. A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that Qualcomm could sell through January 2009 some chips whose designs infringe three patents held by Broadcom, though it must […]

About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche. The findings of the online survey of 2,081 Americans, conducted […]

Internet phone service Vonage said on Friday it agreed to settle a patent dispute with U.S. telephone giant AT&T that calls on Vonage to pay AT&T up to $7.8 million a year. Vonage said in a statement the five-year settlement deal means it must make an upfront payment of $1.95 million to AT&T in January […]

EMC yesterday said it agreed to acquire Document Sciences, a provider of communications management software, for $14.75 per share in cash, a 79 percent premium to the stock’s closing price on Wednesday. The deal values Document Sciences at about $85 million. With the acquisition, EMC expects to strengthen its presence in the transactional content management […]

Wal-Mart Stores quietly canceled its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday. Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett-Packard discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said in an e-mail. She added that it would not look for another […]

About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche. The findings of the online survey of 2,081 Americans, conducted […]

Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo is considering a partnership with Google, adopting the Web giant’s search and e-mail features in its mobile phone Internet service, company sources said this week. The move marks a strategic shift for Japan’s largest wireless operator by seeking a partner, as the firm has been lagging behind much smaller rivals in […]

UPDATED: Apple and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple’s digital iTunes Store, according to media reports on Thursday. The agreement will allow rentals of Fox’s latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from the online iTunes store for a limited time, the […]

Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple’s industry-dominating iTunes online store. Warner Music songs are available on the Amazon MP3 service, which lets users purchase the tunes and download them to many digital music players, including Apple’s iPod, the companies said on Thursday. They […]

In his first official visit to the United States in 2006, China President Hu Jintao arrived for dinner at Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates’ house with a gift for the host. Shortly before Hu’s Seattle visit, the Chinese government had issued a decree requiring all personal computers manufactured in China to come with a licensed […]

A federal appeals court handed Google a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday, tossing out part of a summary judgment in the Web search engine’s favor in a lawsuit filed by Hyperphrase Technologies. Hyperphrase had filed suit in Wisconsin saying that Google infringed on four patents used to make AutoLink and AdSense. The district […]

Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America’s GPS. The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009, once all its 24 navigational satellites are operating. A space rocket blasted […]