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Surging demand for the latest iPhone and Blackberry models helped Apple Inc and Research In Motion to win larger shares of the smartphone market in the third quarter at the expense of top vendor Nokia, market research firm Canalys said on Thursday. Nokia’s share of the market for smartphones — handsets with computer-like features like […]

Cisco CEO John ChambersSource: Reuters Cisco Systems warned that its revenue could fall as much as 10 percent in the current quarter as the economic downturn spreads to Europe and Asia, and its shares fell about 6 percent. The world’s largest maker of network equipment, often seen as a bellwether in the technology sector, said […]

Source: Reuters Google canceled plans for a search advertising partnership with Yahoo amid opposition from antitrust regulators and advertisers, Google’s chief legal officer said in a blog posting on Wednesday. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) expressed dismay at Google’s decision, saying it was “disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it […]

Source: Reuters Barack Obama soared to victory in the U.S. presidential election Tuesday night with a promise of change. But with the new administration not taking office until Jan. 20, the tech industry has some time to weigh the election’s outcome — and the chances that if change does come, it’ll be in its favor. […]

Comedy spoofs by Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert have made the U.S. presidential race a made-for-television event, but on Tuesday many voters will turn to the Internet to watch election night coverage. Major media organizations expect record-breaking traffic on their websites as they follow results in the race between Republican John McCain and his Democratic […]

SAN FRANCISCO — FBR Capital Markets said on Monday that production of Apple Inc’s iconic iPhone might plunge more than 40 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous period. “Previous checks indicated that iPhone production would fall about 10 percent sequentially in calendar 4Q,” said FBR’s note by Craig Berger, “(but) our new checks […]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) — A new technology that essentially allows content owners to profit from piracy will get a high-profile test this month from MySpace and MTV Networks. Instead of triggering the usual take-down notices, copyright-infringing footage of select MTV Networks programing uploaded by MySpace subscribers would be automatically redistributed with advertisements that would […]

Sony said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard. Sony (NYSE: SNE) said the recall is expected to have limited impact on its earnings, and its shares outperformed a falling Tokyo stock market on Friday. The recall is […]

WASHINGTON — Google may decide to scrap its proposed partnership with Yahoo rather than accept government-imposed antitrust restrictions on it, according to two sources familiar with the companies’ discussions. “Are they more serious about walking away? Yes. Have they decided? I’m not sure,” one source told Reuters on Friday. “Yahoo wants the deal, and they’re […]

BEIJING — A top Chinese copyright official chided Microsoft for launching an anti-piracy tool that nags users of counterfeit software with a black computer screen and said the company’s prices were too high. The U.S. software giant launched Windows Genuine Advantage in China last week, a program that turns the background of the Windows operating […]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce on Tuesday that they have agreed to a common set of principals on how to do business in nations that restrict free speech and expression, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move by the Internet media and technology giants comes in the wake of criticism that they […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its datacenters to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the cloud computing trend. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, said on Monday it will start previewing “Windows Azure,” a platform that […]