Apple launched a legal broadside against smart-phone maker HTC, a key Google partner, the latest sign of the escalating tensions between the two Silicon Valley companies.
Apple's move comes as the Taiwanese smart-phone maker struggles to compete against bigger rivals to sell smart phones to the mass market.
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RealNetworks has settled lawsuits with six movie studios that sought to stop it from selling technology that let consumers copy DVDs to their computers.
Some Silicon Valley firms, led by Oracle and Cisco Systems, continued to give out big options packages to executives during the recession last year, according to Equilar.
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IBM researchers claim an important advance in the way computer chips communicate, sharply boosting speed while lowering energy consumption.
The FCC's coming National Broadband Plan will propose up to $25 billion in new federal spending for high-speed Internet lines and a wireless network for police and firefighters.
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Media companies such as E! Entertainment are using their Web sites to piggyback on the Academy Awards gala—officially broadcast by ABC—hoping to attract viewers and advertisers to a full lineup of supplemental coverage.
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"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will no longer be available on Hulu due to a financial impasse between the video Web site and Viacom, which owns the shows.
Videogame companies are rushing to tap China's market, but many find that a slow-moving bureaucracy and rampant piracy remain significant hurdles.
Underscoring the rise of free Internet-based telephony, handset maker Nokia said it has made Skype available as a free download from its Ovi online store.
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Verizon Wireless said some customers in the Eastern U.S. were temporarily left without access to data services such as mobile Web and email early Wednesday.
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Panasonic's president said he expects the company's unprofitable television operations to swing to the black in the next fiscal year.
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TiVo is introducing new digital video recorders that blend broadcast and online content more thoroughly than before.
Sen. Durbin said he will introduce legislation that would require Internet companies to take steps to protect human rights or face civil or criminal liability.
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China Mobile is in talks to buy a stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank as part of the wireless carrier's plan to push further into mobile e-commerce.
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Virgin Galactic plans test flights next year and aims to start commercial space flights within the next five years.
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Most everyone in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street agrees: The eventual IPO of social-networking site Facebook could make its founder the world's richest 25-year-old. Yet CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems intent on deferring that multibillion dollar payday.
Michael Chertoff, who ran the Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, says there's a reason that computer security isn't up to the threat posed by cyber criminals: Doing it right is too complicated for most people.
It's not news that Google lost some intellectual property in the highly publicized cyber attack that targeted the Internet giant and many other companies. What is more surprising, the security firm McAfee says, is how the others could have also been victimized.
Digits will be live tweeting the Shorty Awards -- the "Oscars" of Twitter -- this evening from New York.
AT&T's first-ever Android phone is coming soon. It just isn't coming with Google.
The Journal's Shira Ovide and Marcelo Prince talk about the ad dollars in online video and the possibility of subscription models.
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Intel's Wi-Di and MediaMall's PlayOn offer ways to watch your computer videos on your TV, but they are expensive solutions that have downsides.
Katie Boehret looks at laptops by Acer and Asus that use 3-D technology to make photos, movies and games pop.
Jonnelle Marte tests Lenovo's IdeaPad S10-3t, which includes tablet-like features in a netbook, in the hopes of capturing some of the momentum around Apple's iPad.
Intuit's upgrade of Mac Quicken keeps its promises, but is no match for the Windows version—and a step backward in some features on the 2007 Mac version.
Marisa Taylor takes the Magellan RoadMate iPhone app and Premium Car Kit for a spin to see how it compares with an in-car navigation device.
Web traffic measurement, despite recent advances, remains fraught with conflicting numbers for popular sites.
Don't expect Microsoft or Hewlett-Packard to spend their money willy-nilly on start-ups anytime soon.
Canadian real-estate firm Mantella has tapped two Toronto early-stage investors to spread a new, venture fund to more than a dozen fledgling technology companies.
In this morning's Web roundup, a start-up built entirely to benefit from the explosive popularity of Twitter has produced what appears to be a good exit for its venture investors. Also, a European drug start-up wins big, online shopping is finally innovating and Hulu says goodbye to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Sina (SINA), the Shanghai-based online media company, this afternoon reported Q4 revenue of $98.2 million, down 3% from a year ago, up 2% sequentially, and above the Street at $94.9 million. But non-GAAP EPS of 31 cents a share fell a nickel shy of expectations. Advertising revenue was down 9% year [...]
DivX (DIVX) shares are sharply higher after hours on better-than-expected Q4 results. The digital media technology licensing company posted Q4 revenue of $20.1 million and non-GAAP EPS of 7 cents; the Street had been forecasting $18.1 million and 2 cents. For Q1, the company sees revenue of $20.5 million-$21.5 million, with non-GAAP [...]
Cbeyond (CBEY), which provides communications services to small businesses, reported Q4 revenue of $107.7 million, up 14.8% from a year ago, but shy of the Street at $109.3 million. EPS of 3 cents a share was ahead of the Street, which had expected a loss of a penny a share. For [...]
Altera (ALTR) this afternoon said it now sees Q1 revenue up 7%-10% sequentially, ahead of its previous forecast of 5%-10% growth. “The company expects solid growth from new products in the first quarter,” Altera said in a statement. “All four vertical market segments are likely to report sequential [...]