Archive for the ‘Reuters Technology’ Category
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire basketball team owner Mark Cuban responded to U.S. insider trading charges on Tuesday, saying on his website that he had not agreed to keep information about a proposed stock sale confidential.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire privately-owned Transitive Corp, whose technology helps businesses use software on IBM computers that was designed to run on rival systems.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Recognizing the limits of traditional advertising, established technology companies are diving headlong into the sometimes chaotic landscape of social media to promote their products.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Yahoo Inc soared 10 percent on Tuesday on hopes that the departure of Jerry Yang, its embattled chief executive, would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft Corp.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
MACAU (Reuters) - China took another step toward its long-cherished goal of operating high-speed telecoms services, with China Mobile dishing out over $4 billion of deals and smaller rival Unicom hoping to win a 3G license soon.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A milestone was reached last week in the crossover from Internet to TV when Sci Fi Channel gave an early second-season pickup to "Sanctuary," making it the first TV show based on an online series to accomplish the feat.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Global sales of semiconductors are likely to fall 2.2 percent in 2009 due to weak demand for electronics worldwide, industry group World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said on Tuesday, reversing its May forecast of 5.8 percent growth.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - National Geographic is getting into the video game business. Through its for-profit unit National Geographic Ventures, the nonprofit National Geographic Society is set to announce Tuesday that it has created National Geographic Games.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc said on Tuesday it had not infringed Eastman Kodak Co's patented technology and said it would respond actively to litigation.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has notified employees that it will extend its planned one-week holiday shutdown by an additional week as a cost-cutting measure, it said on Monday.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Video compression software maker DivX Inc said on Monday it filed a lawsuit against Yahoo Inc for planning to end a two-year advertising services agreement.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel began selling its new Core i7 processor on Monday, finally matching the lower power consumption and ability to handle multiple tasks offered by smaller competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Rodney Jerkins and former Vivendi Games executive Nicholas Longano are teaming up on a technology project that will present a basic virtual world, in the tradition of Second Life, on the Web.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Software maker Adobe Systems and chip designer ARM Holdings will collaborate to bring better Web services to ARM-powered devices including cellphones from most of the world's biggest handset makers.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Banking on the global appeal of Japanese pop and video games, social networking site MySpace said it would more than double the number of artists on its Japanese pages to get more clicks internationally.
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