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A UK-based phone maker announced a flat-rate music download service for mobile phones in key European markets Thursday, getting it into stores two weeks ahead of Apple's hotly anticipated iPhone. Omnifone launched MusicStation -- which comes with subscription music access provided by multiple major ...

Auction giant eBay has stopped buying Google AdWords in apparent retaliation for a now-canceled event meant to build support among eBay sellers for Google Checkout -- a sign of the increasing tensions between the Internet competitors. The spat reportedly began when Google last week announced it woul...

More than 12 million small and medium-sized businesses operate in the U.S., and unlike larger enterprises, few of them have the cash to pay a marketing firm to launch an online advertising campaign. In world where the Internet has become perhaps the most powerful tool that companies can use to attra...

Sprint Nextel announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Minnesota-based affiliate Northern PCS for $312.5 million. The deal includes the assumption of Northern PCS's debt, and should close in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approvals, the Reston, Va.-based company said. Northern PCS provides...

Blockbuster is offering lower-priced plans for its Web rental service to steal business from online video rental star Netflix. The Dallas-based Blockbuster has cut prices $1 a month for customers ordering movies only online just a month after the company's CEO suggested raising prices. Industry insi...

Shareholders upset about Yahoo's lagging performance forced CEO Terry Semel to defend the company's market strategy, even as he and other company-backed officers were re-elected to the portal's board of directors. Yahoo shareholders defeated a proposal to change the way executive pay is determined, ...

Bringing services-oriented architectures to life is a lot like delivering a baby -- it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor and ultimately ... pushing. So far, the job openings for SOA midwives outstrip the available pool of talent. These are great jobs: transforming companies and indu...

In today's competitive marketplace, securing online market share and mindshare are paramount to any business. Online market share is becoming increasingly important, with more and more consumers using the Internet. In January, 747 million people worldwide -- ages 15 and over -- used the Internet, a ...

Another day, another charge that Microsoft has violated its consent decree -- or so it must seem to the software titan, which has been battling such accusations ever since the mega antitrust case against it ended in 2002. In the latest controversy, though, the company lodging the complaint is none o...

Electronics maker Toshiba lowered its sales target for high-definition DVD players and recorders based on slumping sales figures in the United States. The Tokyo-based company now expects to sell 1 million of its optical disc players in the country by the end of this year, down 44 percent from its pr...

Chipmaker Texas Instruments narrowed its second-quarter fiscal outlook late Monday, reducing the high end of its forecast range on weaker demand for wireless networking gear and calculators sold to the education market. Texas Instruments -- a bellwether of sorts because it is the world's largest mak...

In five years, the number of mobile phone subscribers is expected to increase by almost two billion -- at that point, the way people purchase goods and services could be forever changed. For now, text-messaging, or short message service, is chiefly used for communication, but businesses hip to m-com...

A memo apparently written by a key antitrust enforcement official in the U.S. Justice Department is raising suspicions that the Bush Administration unduly favored Microsoft's positions. Issued by Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett, a former antitrust partner at Covington & Burlington, ...

IBM will acquire Sweden-based Telelogic in a $745 million cash deal, one that gives IBM access to a leading provider of application lifecycle management products. Big Blue will fold Telelogic into its Rational unit -- created in the wake of an earlier acquisition -- where companies will have access ...

Qwest Communications Chairman and CEO Richard C. Notebaert plans to retire from both positions as soon as a successor can be found, the telecommunications carrier said Monday. Qwest will commence a search for a replacement immediately, saying that it "plans no changes in strategy or operations" as a...