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New York Times: Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
Palm is trying to revive itself as business users have embraced the BlackBerry and consumers have fallen in love with the iPhone.
New York Times: EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model
The move is just one of the changes eBay has made in the last few months aimed at reducing its dependence on its auction business, which is growing more slowly than fixed-price sales.
New York Times: DealBook: Video Game Deal Clears Antitrust Hurdle
The Federal Trade Commission has ended its antitrust investigation into Electronic Arts’ proposal to buy Take Two. Electronic Arts withdrew its offer on Monday but the sides agreed to hold more talks.
New York Times: Ericsson and STMicroelectronics Form Venture
The Swedish wireless equipment maker and the Swiss chipmaker announced plans to create a 50-50 joint venture that will make chipsets for mobile phones.
New York Times: Advertising: A Small Empire Built on Cuddly and Fuzzy Branches Out From the Web
Given all the nastiness on the Internet -- blog trolls, flame wars, vicious gossip, pornography, snark and spam -- what better antidote is there than looking at pictures of cute animals?
New York Times: Motorola Unveils Low-End Phones for Music and Web
Motorola unveiled the W388, a music-enabled camera phone, and the W388, a 3G cellphone that offers one-click mobile social networking, photo uploading and blogging.
New York Times: Bits: I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services
I.B.M. is spending $300 million to build 13 data centers around the world, dedicated to helping corporate customers keep their businesses up and running despite calamity.
New York Times: Dot Earth: Enhanced Geothermal: The Next Killer App?
Dan Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives at Google.org, suggests that Enhanced Geothermal Systems, or E.G.S., might well be “the killer app” of clean energy technology.
New York Times: Bits: Lighting the Big Apple With L.E.D.'s
New York City has contracted with the Office for Visual Interaction, a lighting design group, to install and test L.E.D. street lighting.
Bits: Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty
The Medium: Tiny Talents
Consumers Upgrade, but to Smaller TVs
Bits: EBay in Talks to Buy Share of Korean Auction Site GMarket
Cassini revisits Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Dell Revamps Its Corporate Laptops
Bits: Google Says It Did Not Erase Maps of Georgia
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·Growth Wanes for India's Tech Titans
India's information-technology industry is losing steam. The credit crunch and spending slowdown in the U.S. are hurting the companies' biggest market, while a cheaper dollar shrinks their profits. Competition is rising from other low-cost nations.
·Reliance Eyes Cellphone Game Makers
India's Reliance ADA is hunting for U.S. acquisitions in the mobile-content market, seeking to extend its U.S. foothold beyond movies.
·Ericsson, STMicro Join Forces
Ericsson and STMicro said they will form a joint venture to produce semiconductors and software for mobile applications.
·Overseas Sales Lift H-P
H-P's profit climbed 14%, driven by robust international sales and strong demand for laptops. An upbeat forecast was issued.
·EBay Reduces Fee for Fixed-Price Listings
EBay said it will lower the fees it charges for products listed for sale at a fixed price, in a bid to become more competitive with rival Web sites such as Amazon.com.
·Salesforce.com Acquires InStranet
Salesforce.com acquired InStranet which makes call-center optimization software, for $31.5 million, which includes the assumption of $4.2 million in cash.
·Intel Seeks to Boost Performance
Intel is accelerating efforts to boost computing performance without increasing power consumption, including a new "turbo" technology on forthcoming chips. The technology was disclosed at the company's twice-yearly forum for developers.
·Cheaper Rates on Global Cellphone Calls
Companies have emerged to make calling overseas cheaper and easier -- often requiring little more than a cellphone with Internet access. But the cellphone services still have hurdles for consumers, and require some level of tech savvy.
·FTC Limits Prerecorded Calls
The FTC said it will bar telemarketers from making prerecorded sales calls unless a consumer explicitly agrees to receive such calls.
·Judge Rules Against Boston Transit
A federal judge ruled against the Boston transit system in a closely watched lawsuit against MIT students who found a way to take free subway and bus trips.
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·Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
Palm is trying to revive itself as business users have embraced the BlackBerry and consumers have fallen in love with the iPhone.
·EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model
The move is just one of the changes eBay has made in the last few months aimed at reducing its dependence on its auction business, which is growing more slowly than fixed-price sales.
·DealBook: Video Game Deal Clears Antitrust Hurdle
The Federal Trade Commission has ended its antitrust investigation into Electronic Arts’ proposal to buy Take Two. Electronic Arts withdrew its offer on Monday but the sides agreed to hold more talks.
·Ericsson and STMicroelectronics Form Venture
The Swedish wireless equipment maker and the Swiss chipmaker announced plans to create a 50-50 joint venture that will make chipsets for mobile phones.
·Advertising: A Small Empire Built on Cuddly and Fuzzy Branches Out From the Web
Given all the nastiness on the Internet -- blog trolls, flame wars, vicious gossip, pornography, snark and spam -- what better antidote is there than looking at pictures of cute animals?
·Motorola Unveils Low-End Phones for Music and Web
Motorola unveiled the W388, a music-enabled camera phone, and the W388, a 3G cellphone that offers one-click mobile social networking, photo uploading and blogging.
·Bits: I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services
I.B.M. is spending $300 million to build 13 data centers around the world, dedicated to helping corporate customers keep their businesses up and running despite calamity.
·Dot Earth: Enhanced Geothermal: The Next Killer App?
Dan Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives at Google.org, suggests that Enhanced Geothermal Systems, or E.G.S., might well be “the killer app” of clean energy technology.
·Hewlett’s Printing Business Struggles
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest technology company, continues to roll along financially -- except in one traditional core business -- its printing business.
·Bits: Lighting the Big Apple With L.E.D.'s
New York City has contracted with the Office for Visual Interaction, a lighting design group, to install and test L.E.D. street lighting.
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·Phelps and his 700,000 Facebook friends
Yes, Michael Phelps has been called a rock star. But online - at least on Facebook - the Rodgers Forge swimmer is actually much bigger than that.
·Video merger seems closer
EA and Take-Two are expected to begin discussions about 'strategic alternatives' Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. is retracting its hostile bid for smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., but a deal - and a friendly one at that - is likelier than ever.
·Magazines mull legal action to fight digital piracy
Legal experts say Web site run by offshore firm violating copyright laws The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.
·New BlackBerry model may arrive by September
Latest version may arrive by September The new BlackBerry model should be coming to North America within a month now that Research In Motion Ltd. has started selling it in Germany and Chile.
·Netflix problems delay shipping
Netflix has been slammed by three days of big technical problems that have severely limited the number of digital video discs it has been sending out.
·Apple ex-counsel settles SEC case
Accused of options backdating, Heinen will pay $2.2 million The former top attorney at Apple Inc. agreed yesterday to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives, including Steve Jobs.
·Casting a wider net for iPhone
I n yet another signal of Apple's determination to build market share for the iPhone, Best Buy will start selling the popular device as of Sept. 7.
·Nanotechnology unit joins Lockheed
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. said yesterday it has acquired the government business unit of a company that develops nanotechnology-enabled devices such as memory, logic and sensors used in military and intelligence applications. Lockheed Martin also entered a license arrangement with privately held Woburn, Mass.-based Nantero Inc. for government applications of Nantero's intellectual property portfolio. Lockh ...
·Wells Fargo reports a possible breach
Wells Fargo & Co. is notifying about 5,000 people that their personal information might have been seen by someone using a bank access code illegally.
·Fantasy football for Facebook
Jeff Ma (left) and business partner Mike Kerns hope to introduce a younger generation of players to a game best known as "fantasy football" through a program within the popular Internet hangout Facebook.
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