Reuters - Nokia unveiled on Thursday a new small mobile phone targeted at a mass market of business users, as the world's largest handset maker aims to grab a bigger share of that lucrative segment of the industry.
AFP - Japanese Internet and telecom group Softbank and Vodafone of Britain said they had agreed to join forces to develop new mobile telephone handsets, software and content.
Macworld.com - The fugitive owners of a gambling Web site based on the Caribbean island of Antigua have laundered US$250 million in profits, according to charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. on Thursday said it would buy Swiss software company Rembo Technology, which helps organizations automatically install or upgrade operating systems on computer servers.
Reuters - KDDI Corp., Japan's No.2 telecoms firm, said on Thursday it had agreed a deal with Google Inc. enabling users of its Internet services via "au" mobile phones to use Google's Web search engine.
AP - China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., China's largest cell-phone carrier by subscribers, said Thursday it's in talks with Google Inc. to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.
PC World - Toolbar directs users to pirated software, company claims.
Macworld.com - Apple on Thursday released Final Cut Express HD v3.5, an updated version of their video editing software aimed at video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses. New to this release is support for Dynamic RT, real-time playback of multi-stream effects, and more.
InfoWorld - SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems executives at the JavaOne conference sought to dispel what they described as marketplace misconceptions, including the notions that Java is being displaced, that middleware is obsolete, and that innovation and commercial software are both dead.
USATODAY.com - Going up against Apple's iTunes/iPod online music empire is a colossal challenge for any competitor. But the handsome Urge digital music service jointly launched Wednesday as a near-finished "beta" from Microsoft and MTV Networks is well worth a music junkie's attention - if you can tolerate the growing pains.
Macworld.com - Apple has released the MacBook, an Intel-based 13.3-inch widescreen notebook which replaces both its iBook and the 12-inch PowerBook. Tonight, I’m using one — and thanks to Boot Camp, it’s running Windows XP as well as Mac OS X. (I’m using the US$1499 black version.)
Reuters - Japan's Softbank Corp. (9984.T) said on Thursday it would set up a mobile phone handset and content joint venture with Vodafone Group Plc as it looks to take on NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T) and KDDI Corp. (9433.T).
Reuters - Univision Communications Inc. and its Mexican programming partner Televisa, already embroiled in a legal dispute over television royalties, also disagree on the rights to air shows on the Internet in the United States, a Univision executive said on Wednesday.
Macworld.com - Standing in the shadow of some of the world’s retail giants — Bergdorf Goodman, FAO Schwarz and Trump Towers flanking it — a shining glass cube stands in the center of a public plaza, adorned with only the illuminated logo of Apple Computer.
AP - AOL LLC, signaling the importance online video will play in drawing visitors to its ad-supported Web sites, has purchased a small company that specializes in inserting advertising into video clips.
NewsFactor - The old days of the client-server model might be here again. Vendors of hosted software are seeing a spike in their adoption rates. Microsoft is moving its software online as a service, something Oracle has been preaching for years. Sun's mantra has always been that the network is the computer. And there are tons of Web-services technologies that are continuing to facilitate the shift from standalone applications to a network-centric approach to computing.
NewsFactor - Sony Ericsson has unveiled a handful of new mobile phones, including two handsets that capitalize on what the Sony side of the partnership does best: music and imaging.
AFP - More than one billion people in the world have access to the Internet, with a quarter of them with broadband, or high-speed connections, according to a survey.
AP - Sony Ericsson launched four new mobile phone models Thursday, including two in its Walkman-branded line.
InfoWorld - San Francisco -- Sun Microsystems, which still maintains it will not join the open source Eclipse Foundation, is nevertheless helping the organization out with one particular project.
NewsFactor - With laptops rapidly becoming the PCs of choice for everyone, AMD is taking its mobile chips to the next level with the introduction of dual-core, 64-bit processors optimized to handle multiple applications at the same time.
Reuters - Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet unit on Thursday said it had purchased privately-held online advertising company Lightningcast in a bid to expand its Web ad network.
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