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Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple’s iPhone without having to sign a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone obtained a court injunction against it. T-Mobile said on Wednesday it will offer the iPhone without a T-Mobile contract for 999 euros ($1,478) at its shops. It will also allow those customers who […]

Tired of traffic jams, late trains, packed buses? Telecommuting can be a big plus for workers and employers because it boosts morale and job satisfaction and cuts stress, researchers said on Monday. In an analysis of 46 studies on telecommuting, researchers found that working away from the office by using computers, cell phones or other […]

European trade chief Peter Mandelson said the United States should let foreign companies into its multibillion-dollar online gaming market instead of trying to compensate European firms for shutting them out. “The U.S. has so far opted for compensation to make right what is wrong,” he told members of the European Parliament on Tuesday. “I don’t […]

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration should explore legislation to roll back a U.S. ban on Internet gambling instead of paying compensation to the European Union and other trading partners, the chairmen of two House of Representatives committees said today. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and six other […]

PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don’t accept PayPal directly. The new software utility, called the PayPal Secure Card, recognizes when a user lands on an e-commerce checkout page and automatically helps […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a verdict that Vonage Holdings Corp. infringed two patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., the latest legal setback for the loss-making Internet phone company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reaffirmed an order barring Vonage from using Internet phone call […]

AMD is welcoming some new investors based in Abu Dhabi who are sinking $622 million into the chipmaker. It all amounts to about an 8.1 percent stake in the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD by Mubadala Development Company, a strategic investment and development company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The […]

Google is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday in its online edition. The company is also prepared to bid on its own without any partners, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The newspaper […]

Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Wednesday that if his company were to make another offer for BEA Systems, it would be below its original $17-per-share offer. Oracle, the world’s number-three software maker, withdrew its bid on Oct. 28. BEA has said it would begin negotiations to sell the company with any suitor willing […]

IBM is staking out a major new source of business helping clients like banks or retailers manage datacenters on a par with Internet players such as Google or Microsoft, a top official said on Wednesday. Bill Zeitler, the executive in charge of IBM’s hardware business, said the initiative to set up customers with the technology, […]

Chinese espionage posed “the single greatest risk” to U.S. technology, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday and called for efforts to protect industrial secrets and computer networks. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission also called in its annual report to Congress for closer work with China to promote energy security and deal with […]

Apple’s iPhone is unlikely to hit Chinese shelves soon because of technical and fee issues, industry executives said on Wednesday, a day after shares in the U.S. company shot up on hopes of a deal with China Mobile. Shares in Apple rose more than 10 percent on Tuesday — snapping a four-day losing streak — […]