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Internet search engine Google is becoming a “giant monopoly” like Microsoft and could face legal action if it does not become more transparent, Germany’s justice minister said. In an interview with weekly magazine Der Spiegel Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said she was concerned the firm was accruing too much power and information about citizens via programs like […]

Large flat-screen TVs were all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but companies like Microvision are putting their bets on image viewing of a much smaller scale: projections from devices as tiny as mobile phones. While commercial products with so-called pico projectors are still relatively rare, Microvision and rivals such as Texas Instruments and […]

Google sweetened its bid for On2 Technologies with a cash portion that boosts the deal value by 20 percent to $134 million, months after shareholders of the video compression technology company balked at the initial price. Shares of Clifton Park, N.Y.-based On2 rose 25 percent to 75 cents on Thursday morning after the two companies […]

The smoke has finally cleared on Google’s highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone, but the ramifications of the Internet company’s new role as a mobile phone vendor are still hazy. For established wireless companies, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) represents a new heavyweight jumping into the ring. And in bypassing the wireless carriers to sell phones directly to […]

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unveiled a new Hewlett-Packard tablet computer on Wednesday, beating Apple’s hotly anticipated move into the market. But analysts were skeptical that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) could generate as much consumer excitement as Apple’s new device, widely expected to be unveiled on Jan. 27, though the company has […]

AT&T plans to sell seven new smartphones in the first half of this year, including two from Palm Inc and five Android handsets from vendors such as Dell. The news bolstered shares of Palm, which has been under pressure to find more carrier partners. But the multiple new handsets announced by AT&T fueled speculation among […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google is expected to unveil its highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone today, marking a first foray into an increasingly crowded market that could shape the future of the company’s advertising business. Gadget lovers around the world will focus on Google’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., where the Internet search leader […]

The government agency that supervises the communications industry should free up unused airwaves to make the high-speed Internet access market more competitive, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) also should make it harder for big wireless phone companies to win spectrum auctions, the Justice Department said in comments it […]

Online retailer Amazon.com is testing Wall Street’s patience by repeatedly touting the success of its Kindle electronic reader without providing specific sales figures. In one press release after another in recent months, Amazon (AMZN.O) has talked up the Kindle’s best-seller status across all product categories. The statements have helped propel a share price already on […]

Lenovo Group Ltd is unveiling a new look for its classic ThinkPad line, and is including Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors in the laptops for the first time. Technology The new ThinkPad Edge series, with a sleeker design, simplified keyboard and slightly larger keys, will come in three screen sizes, three colors and start at $549 […]

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking to hold Apple responsible for possible hearing loss caused by using its popular iPod music player. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of the iPod poses an […]

Despite iPods, genetic sequencing, the Internet and Twitter, nearly a third of Americans said they thought there would be more technological advances by the year 2010. Not everyone expected to be living like The Jetsons, the space age television cartoon series of the early 1960s, but the Zogby International survey of more than 3,000 adults […]