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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 […]

Global shipments of personal computers bounced back in the third quarter of 2009, a sign that information technology spending will pick up in the coming months, a research group reported on Wednesday. Back-to-school demand helped shipments to rise 2.3 percent after falling for three consecutive quarters, according to research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. […]

Samsung Electronics’ new chief executive, Choi Geesung, said the South Korean technology giant would cultivate new revenue sources in the infotainment and “lifecare” sectors and beef up its PC, appliance and camera businesses. Choi, who officially took over as CEO on Thursday, said in his inauguration speech that Samsung would further cement its leading position […]

BRUSSELS — European Union (EU) regulators accepted Microsoft’s pledge to give European consumers better access to rival Internet browser in Windows, ending a long antitrust dispute with the U.S. software maker. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said millions of European consumers would benefit from being able to choose their browser and the decision would encourage web […]

Comcast has rolled out an on-demand, Web-based service for subscribers to both its video programming and Internet access in a bid to keep customers from dropping their cable subscriptions in search of free shows online. The new service is called Fancast XFINITY TV, and is the largest implementation of a cable industry initiative called TV […]

Google could undermine its long-term strategy of extending its reach into mobile Web services if it chooses to go head-to-head with cell phone manufacturers that are using its Android operating system. Analysts say Google’s ultimate success rests on phones of all sorts using its Web search and services — the lion’s share of its revenue […]

Microsoft said it was temporarily suspending its MSN China microblogging site, Juku, as it investigates a complaint of plagiarism from a start-up, Plurk. Microsoft is working with the MSN China joint venture to investigate the situation, the company said in a statement on its Web site. In a blog post on Monday, Plurk, considered a […]

U.S. computer maker Sun Microsystems said on Tuesday it won intellectual property cases in both the United States and Britain. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) said that in the U.S. case it obtained a federal court judgment against Sun Valley Technical Repair, describing it as a major counterfeiter of its products. The owner is required to make […]

Apple accused Nokia of anticompetitive practices and patent infringement on Friday, escalating a legal battle as they fight for market share in smartphones. Analysts say the dispute, potentially involving hundreds of millions of dollars in annual royalties, reflects the shifting balance of power in the mobile industry as cellphones morph into handheld computers that can […]

Major British and U.S. companies are focusing on a return to revenue growth in 2010 over cost-cutting, and IT is central to their recovery strategies, according to a survey by consultants Gartner. In 2009, CEOs prioritized cost cutting to cope with the downturn, but a year later the focus for 71 percent is a return […]

A consortium including Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and KDDI Corp has signed a deal on Thursday to build and operate an international undersea cable system, estimated to cost $400 million. Globe Telecom, part owned by Singapore Telecommunications, and units of Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications are also part of the consortium. The cable system, named Southeast […]

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark testified on Thursday he decided to trust eBay after a key 2004 meeting in which then-CEO Meg Whitman and other executives said the Internet giant shared the small private company’s core values. But he compared his feelings to that of a cheated spouse when he later learned that eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) […]