SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Facebook, the social networking Internet site that is sweeping the globe with a quarter million new members every day, has targeted the world’s second-largest Internet market, registering a local Web address in China.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp’s Windows Vista is starting to see mass adoption from businesses nearly a year after it was released, the company said while predicting a strong first holiday season for the product.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Insurance and holiday company for the over-50s Saga has launched a social networking Web site for silver surfers in a bid to emulate the huge popularity of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc’s AOL Internet division said on Wednesday that it would let users opt out of online advertisements that are presented to individuals based on the Web sites they have visited.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, is in talks to put applications from Web search leader Google Inc on its cell phones, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - It’s not the neon lights or hip-hop beats that make this an unusual whistle stop in the November 2008 presidential contest. It’s the youthful faces of those in the crowd.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the latest antics of “The Simpsons”, Bart chases a giant ape through a video game factory, Lisa destroys a logging camp and Marge storms city hall with an angry mob.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp are supplying Libya’s government with 150,000 rugged laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to meet the needs of children in developing countries.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to ban exclusive deals between building owners and cable television providers to give apartment and condominium dwellers a greater choice of pay television services.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British film project has turned MySpace users into movie moguls, giving them a say in choosing the director, cast, soundtrack and marketing model.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved legislation on Tuesday extending a moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years, sending the bill to the president to sign into law.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom on Tuesday denied being in talks with Google about introducing handsets fitted with the U.S. Web search leader’s software systems.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the states accusing it of continuing monopolistic behavior asked a federal judge to temporarily delay the end of government oversight of the software giant, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.
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Work colleagues who press “reply all” on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a new survey.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Personal computers are likely to be among this holiday season’s best-selling gifts as consumers upgrade to higher-performance systems and switch to notebook PCs, but the highest demand is coming from outside the United States.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronics retailer Best Buy Co launched an online service in partnership with video hosting site Mydeo on Tuesday, through which its customers can store and share home movies and videos via the Internet.
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(Reuters) - Apple Inc said it sold more than two million copies of the latest version of its operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, since its release on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet media company Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed ‘the $100 laptop,’ has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc , the biggest U.S. mobile service, said on Monday it will sell a new handset from Pantech Co aimed at customers who like to send e-mails or text messages.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission, which has declared war on Internet scams, warned consumers on Monday not to open a bogus e-mail that appears to come from its fraud department because it carries an attachment that can download a virus.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed “the $100 laptop,” has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hulu, an online video service formed by two media conglomerates, will begin a private test on Monday with two new partners in one of big media’s most ambitious attempts to court viewers wherever they spend time.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics group Toshiba Corp. posted a jump in quarterly operating profit on Monday, thanks to solid flash memory chip prices and power plant sales, and raised its full-year outlook by 12 percent, closer to market estimates.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press “reply all” on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - EBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls to each other while on the move.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives and lobbyists from some of America’s richest and most influential companies are walking the halls of Congress, buttonholing senators to argue for strong patents to preserve U.S. innovation.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The largest U.S. mobile service provider AT&T Inc and smaller rival T-Mobile USA revealed new handsets on Monday to attract a growing number of consumers who like to send e-mails or text messages.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Men are just as likely as women to play casual video games, but are less likely to admit it, according to an industry report that shatters a widely held industry belief that such games appeal mainly to women.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama will auction two new cellular phone licenses at a minimum price of $36 million each, in a bid to increase competition and encourage lower prices and improved services, the government said on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global microchip sales rose 5.9 percent in September, driven by demand for consumer products such as personal computers and cell phones, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Monday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Internet and telecoms giant Softbank Corp will spend about 40 billion yen ($350 million) to start operations next year at a new data centre in southwestern Japan, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walgreen Co <WAG.N plans to put kiosks that can make DVDs of popular movies in drugstore photo departments next year, using a new system that would increase selection while avoiding piracy.
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NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Travelers want to go green and stay clean in the next year — and they don’t want cell phones disturbing their peace, according to an annual survey of travel trends.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Seven police cars chased a go-cart at high speed for five km (three miles) through the winding streets of the western German town of Moenchengladbach but were not able to keep up with the teenage speedster.
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While the music industry is dealing with falling sales, videogames provide an unprecedented way for people to discover new music andfor artists to reach an audience.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York-based cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp said on Friday it will raise the price of its average video package by 4.7 percent in 2008 due to increases in programming costs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate has approved legislation extending a moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd said it aims to launch its Wii game console in China and South Korea next year, helping accelerate its break-neck growth and cement its recent lead over Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British police crime scene examiner was jailed on Friday after grooming a child over the Internet and asking her to do a “rude dare”.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday.
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TORONTO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Find the smiling face on the computer screen and reduce stress.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc is set to launch “Guitar Hero 3″ amid expectations that the latest installment of its music-themed franchise will be a platinum hit for the second-biggest U.S. video game publisher.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Robust demand from emerging markets in Asia and Africa lifted third-quarter sales of all major handset vendors from the previous quarter, with companies expecting another sales boost from holiday shopping ahead.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Saving the galaxy from annihilation has to be emotional, according to a Canadian video game developer who wants players of action role playing title “Mass Effect” to weigh their choices carefully as they fight for the future.
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With some of the best looking digital actors in any video game to date, developers of “Mass Effect” want you to care deeply about their characters.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp will start production this week at a new $3 billion factory in Arizona that is its first to mass-produce microchips with circuits almost a third smaller than before, the company said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rather than looking for their perfect match, one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Singer-guitarist Walter de Castro couldn’t believe his luck when he found out his band’s song “The Core” would be featured on “FIFA 2008,” the Electronic Arts popular soccer game.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp beat out Google Inc on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc expects revenue and bottom-line improvements for its mobile devices business in the fourth quarter compared with the third quarter, a top executive for the company said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retailers and police called on Congress on Thursday to require online auction sites such as eBay to post the serial numbers of items for sale to help crack down on gangs of professional shoplifters.
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MILAN (Reuters) - A high-resolution image of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike to scrutinize it from their own computers.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday his company is working closely with regulators and that he was optimistic its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick will be approved.