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U.S. software company Oracle will present to European Union regulators on Dec. 10 its case for buying computer maker Sun Microsystems, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The European Commission has objected to the $7 billion deal, saying the combination of Sun’s MySQL database product and Oracle’s products could dent competition […]

The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 ($449.99) is available today from AT&T. Features includeWi-Fi, visual voicemail, and built-in GPS. With a two-year contract and rebate, the price drops to $199.99. November 23, 2009 Shoppers looking for a new Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry from T-Mobile will have the chance to take advantage of Black Friday weekend (11/27 – 11/29) promotions, which T-Mobile […]

Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it. But, his proposal is a gamble, and one that could hurt News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) instead of helping it. Murdoch is considering removing News Corp.’s news from Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Web search results, […]

Microblogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday. “That is something we are definitely interested in,” Stone told a news conference in Tel Aviv. “We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision.” He said […]

AT&T unveiled on Monday an offering that lets customers using its network for Web-surfing on laptop computers or netbooks avoid the obligation to sign a two-year contract with the operator. Instead of having to commit to paying $60 a month for two years, customers will be able to pay by the day, by the week […]

China’s government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday. “A large body of both circumstantial and forensic evidence strongly indicates Chinese state involvement in such activities,” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its […]

Microsoft has had talks with News Corp. about a tie up, which would involve News Corp. getting paid to take its news Web sites off Google, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA), which owns such papers as the Wall Street Journal and the Sun, started the discussions, which […]

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand — a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc’s market leading Kindle. The news followed a similar announcement on Thursday by Sony Corp about its electronic reader. Amazon shares […]

China’s Defense Ministry said its Web site has been hit by 2.3 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of them were successful. Web site editor Ji Guilin was quoted as saying the site (www.mod.gov.cn) had been popular with less malignant visitors as well, drawing 1.25 billion visits in the three […]

The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which has presented the […]

A glitch in the computer system that processes U.S. flight plan data was causing delays in the United States but there were no safety issues, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday. The problem, which occurred in the Atlanta-based computer system that provides data about flight plans, has forced air controllers to input the […]

AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of the Internet company’s planned spin-off from Time Warner Inc. The struggling Web pioneer, which is now focused primarily on advertising-supported content, said on Thursday that it would start with […]