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European Union telecom ministers backed proposals on Thursday to open radio frequencies allocated exclusively for GSM mobile phone services to other technologies, such as third-generation (3G) mobile data. The European Commission had in July proposed freeing access to the 900MHz frequency, saying that doing so would make it easier and cheaper for mobile operators in […]

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips, which trails Finland’s Nokia in mobile phones and jumped ahead of U.S. rival […]

Internet search leader Google said Wednesday it is introducing a new mapping system that uses cell phone towers to let mobile phone users locate nearby services without typing in addresses. Google’s new My Location service is being offered in test mode to U.S. users and is designed to expand the percentage of mobile phone users […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Dell Inc said on Tuesday it will sell Google search devices to help companies find information on their networks. Dell said it would sell Google Search Appliance starting at $30,000 and the Google Mini starting at $1,995 to U.S. corporate customers and small businesses. Dell already offers personal computers with Google’s desktop […]

Japanese chip makers Toshiba and NEC Electronics said on Tuesday they would jointly develop 32-nanometer chips to better keep up with rivals. The companies will decide in 2008 how and if they will jointly produce the chips, they said. Chip makers are racing to move to tinier circuit sizes to cut production cost per chip […]

Google is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition. Users would be able to house files they would normally store on personal computers — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images […]

NEW YORK — News Corp’s popular online social network, MySpace, plans to launch Facebook-style “news feeds” in the next 30 to 45 days, Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said on Monday. News feeds, which alert a user to what their friends and colleagues are doing, have been one of the most popular features of […]

NEW YORK, Nov 26 – News Corp’s Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling empire and even to other media companies as early as the first half of next year. Fox Interactive Media (FIM) President Peter Levinsohn told the Reuters Media Summit in New York on Monday […]

The world’s top mobile phone maker, Nokia, said on Monday it was confident it had not infringed the two technology patents chipmaker Qualcomm had sued it for in Britain. The case in the British High Court started on Monday. Qualcomm is seeking an injunction that would stop Nokia selling products using the patents in Britain. […]

Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new anti-piracy system unveiled Friday. The three-way pact between Internet service providers, the government and owners of film and music rights is a boon to the music industry, which has been calling for such measures to stop illicit […]

IBM is gearing up to release not one, but two new versions of its Sametime instant messaging, unified communications and presence software. Expected next Monday, one is a full-featured version that extends the functionality of its current enterprise product. The other is an entry-level version for customers who are looking for a secure corporate IM […]

The personal details of half of Britons have been mislaid by the government, finance minister Alistair Darling said on Tuesday, in another major blow to an administration reeling from an earlier banking debacle. The opposition Conservatives accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labor government of laying 25 million people open to identity theft and bank fraud, […]