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AT&T told U.S. telecom regulators that it should set plans for phasing out older telephone networks if the government wants to make high-speed Internet access available across the country. AT&T (NYSE: T), the original U.S. phone operator, described older voice-based “circuit switched” telephone systems and service as “relics of a by-gone era” in a filing […]

The Internet made shopping without checkout lines a no-brainer. Now, some Web companies are betting that people are ready to forsake another shopping tradition: tangible products. Virtual goods, which exist as digital bits on computers and cellphones, have grown more popular in the past year as important accoutrements for increasingly Web-oriented lives. Often available for […]

Nokia’s latest patent strike against Apple underscores the changing dynamics of the cell phone market, with the sector leader no longer holding the whip hand over rivals in terms of product development. But analysts believe the risks involved in stepping into a legal minefield to help make up lost ground, notably in the fast-growing smartphone […]

China is a vital market for Microsoft’s Web search business, as it chases leaders Baidu and Google in the world’s biggest Internet market, the world’s largest software maker said. Since launching its English-language Bing search site in June, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been gaining steady share in the United States, with 10.3 percent in November […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares rose on Monday after it posted strong growth in holiday season orders and said its customers bought more e-books than physical books for the first time ever on Christmas Day, thanks to its hot-selling Kindle electronic book reader. The U.S.-based Internet retailer said over the weekend its Kindle reader had become […]

Source: Micron Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs, industry tracker DRAMeXchange believes. Prices for DRAM chips, the most common type of computer memory, have stabilized over the past […]

North and South American users of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone suffered widespread delays in message services on Tuesday, just a week after another outage struck the popular corporate network. Customers and analysts had raised concerns about network stability after a short-lived outage on Dec. 17 — the same day the Canadian company reported quarterly […]

China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved Web sites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ordered domain management institutions and internet service providers to tighten control over domain name registration, […]

iPhone app developer Tapulous says its sales have approached $1 million a month, providing fresh evidence of the growing success of start-ups designing programs for Apple’s mobile device. Tapulous — with a mere 20 employees — said its “Tap Tap Revenge” game series has now been installed more than 20 million times, with more than […]

Sony’s e-Reader. Photo: Reuters The way Howard Stringer sees it, Sony’s digital e-readers should focus on the printed word and making reading “comfortable,” even though the consumer electronics giant could turn it into a multimedia machine. Stringer, Chief Executive of Japan’s Sony Corp., admits there is a lot of “energy” behind Amazon.com’s Kindle, which is […]

A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitizing books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and authors […]

Palm reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss as consumer demand for its smartphones was hurt by increased competition, sending shares down 4 percent on Thursday. Investors worried about Palm’s hefty costs as it tries to turn around its business and about increasing competition from phones based on Google Inc’s Android system at Sprint Nextel, the only […]