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Nokia is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple’s App Store. The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) store has proved the market for software supermarkets in the mobile world, with more than 500 million […]

A senior Democratic lawmaker said on Thursday he would push to pass legislation to repeal a three-year-old U.S. ban on Internet gambling that has hurt trade ties with European Union. “I’m going to be pushing it,” House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank told reporters at a press conference to lay out his […]

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said social network sites are a key area of interest for the Internet media company, even as it tries to figure out how to boost its Web search business. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Bartz suggested Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) might seek to partner with […]

Julius GenachowskiSource: Launchbox Digital President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Julius Genachowski, a law school friend and technology industry executive, to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski’s expected priorities include the expansion of broadband service fueled by the recent economic stimulus package and Net neutrality to prevent Internet service providers from giving preference to certain […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is testing a new version of its online search service internally under the name of Kumo.com, a spokesman for the software company said on Monday. The service is not yet available outside the company, but may eventually form part of Microsoft’s attempt to catch up with Internet search leaders […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating EMC’s pricing practices and fee arrangements on sales to federal government agencies, the world’s No. 1 maker of corporate storage gear said on Monday. If the matter proceeds to litigation, the case could result in fines as well as EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) suspension or disbarment from selling to […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet service providers like AT&T Inc are making greater efforts to manage traffic on their networks as they seek ways to avoid congestion caused by bandwidth-hogging services like video, industry officials said on Thursday. Network management of Internet traffic has become a flash point between companies and public interest groups which worry […]

The world’s top mobile phone maker, Nokia, is eyeing entering the laptop business, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday. “We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,” Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to make laptops. The comment was the first official admittance […]

Source: Reuters CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs remains deeply involved in company decisions despite ceding control over operations, executives told shareholders, while waving off questions about reports of a regulatory probe into disclosure. In a one-hour annual meeting at the firm’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) executives cautiously adhered to previous statements […]

It seems like everywhere you turn these days someone has one of those cute little netbooks under their arm or taking up a tiny corner of the table at Starbucks. Chances are pretty good you’ll find a Linux operating system on a least a fair share of those netbooks as well. The real question for […]

Privately held mobile e-mail provider Visto has agreed to buy rival Good Technology from struggling Motorola to expand its offering and grow scale in a market dominated by Research in Motion (RIM). Blackberry-maker RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) created the market for mobile e-mail, holding a dominant position in the corporate sector, and, with Nokia and Microsoft […]

Yahoo introduced several tools on Tuesday that it says will help marketers target their ads more efficiently at a time when many of them are cutting advertising spending drastically. One of the new products lets marketers target people with tailored display ads based on the terms they used in Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) search engine. Another […]