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I admit it, I've got a problem. Smaller than a wallet, this little black box comprises my phone and Internet connection, sending a continuous stream of e-mail and news. It wakes me to the tinny sound of "El Toreador" or "The Entertainer," automatically adjusting to the local time zone. My wife calls...

On the eve of President Bush's first visit to India, people in both countries are re-examining U.S.-India relations, with special attention being paid to economic relations. One of the most important members of the current national leadership is Mr. P. Chidambaram, who is serving as India's Finance ...

The U.S. Justice Department is arguing that Google's privacy concerns are not reason enough for it to withhold search records being sought by investigators, likely setting the stage for a court battle over the data. In a court filing made late Friday, the Bush administration said because individual ...

The federal judge weighing whether to grant an injunction that could lead to the shutdown or alteration of Research In Motion's BlackBerry mobile e-mail service ended a hearing Friday without making a ruling. District Judge James Spencer said he would issue a decision on an injunction "as soon as re...

Mobile equipment maker Ericsson filed patent infringement suits Friday against Samsung, saying its rival was using a variety of its technologies without authorization. Sweden-based Ericsson filed suit against Samsung in the U.S., UK, Germany and The Netherlands. The actions came after talks aimed at...

Research In Motion continued to score victories at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, with another disputed patent held by NTP ruled to be invalid -- but the BlackBerry service faces a critical courtroom showdown on Friday. That's when a judge will hold a long-awaited hearing on whether...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Aduva. Aduva's solution attempts to ease the management of open- and mixed-source server stacks. Aduva's technology competes with products from Levanta, Red Hat, PatchLink and BigFix. Sun was particularly attrac...

Despite some chest beating by the entertainment industry Wednesday over the shutdown of one of the biggest index servers on the eDonkey network, a raid by Belgian and Swiss police seems to have had little impact on file-sharing traffic. "We have seen no effect on the eDonkey traffic levels," Andrew ...

U.S. advertisers have turned the practice of "product placement" into a lucrative market. This advertising phenomenon makes possible the insertion of an advertiser's product into a film, television program or video game. The estimated value of the total product-placement industry in 2005 -- when you...

Sprint Nextel posted sharply lower profits in its first full quarter as a merged company, saying the cost of combining the wireless powerhouse with the traditional long-distance company kept profits down even while the company added subscribers. Sprint Nextel said it earned US$197 million, or 7 cent...

Microsoft's rivals on Wednesday banded together to bring a new charge against the software giant to the European Commission: unfair competition. Microsoft "threatens to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice," the European Committee for Interoperable Systems argued. The ECIS was forme...

Symantec on Tuesday announced that it has completed the acquisition of Relicore, a provider of data center change and configuration management solutions. Relicore's flagship product, Relicore Clarity, automatically discovers, maps and tracks changes to application and server components in real time...

Sony's highly anticipated PlayStation 3 gaming console may not reach the market on schedule, an analyst firm says, leading to speculation that the company could lose ground in the video game war brewing among Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. PS3 is slated to debut this spring in Japan with later launch...

Can reviewing the path of a cab ride shared by quarrelling inventors be a better solution to a patent dispute than years-long litigation that could otherwise reach up to the U.S. Supreme Court? Jorge Goldstein, managing director at the firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox, based in Washington,...

Sirius Satellite Radio's fourth quarter sales more than tripled over the previous year, beating analyst estimates, despite higher quarterly losses tied to heavy promotional efforts aimed at boosting its subscriber base, the company reported. Sirius, which is locked in a battle for market share with...