'Your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally,' wrote Jaiku's Finnish co-founder Jyri Engeström as he revealed yesterday that Jaiku had been acquired by Google. Jaiku's technology can hopefully help Google develop new ways to use ...

In a cautionary tale about the tulip-like valuations assigned too many of these Internet acquisitions these days - as well as the returns one gets off of a free business model - eBay as much as admitted Monday that it paid way, way too much for Skype and said it w...

Telefonica and Yahoo have announced a global agreement providing a framework for making oneSearch, Yahoo!'s mobile search product, the main search service on Telefonica's mobile portals in 15 countries in Europe and Latin America, potentially reaching more than 10...

'Skype has not performed as well as we would have hoped,' said an eBay spokesman yesterday as the company announced drastically reduced bonuses would be paid to Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom and others due to Skype's poor financial performance since eBay acquired...

Nokia will pay $8.1 billion, or $78 per share, for NAVTEQ, which provides digital map data for in-car navigation systems and other devices.

'With this program, advertisers can connect with the growing number of mobile publishers, ultimately providing users with an enhanced mobile experience that helps them find what they are looking for more quickly and efficiently on the go,' said Google, as it yeste...

According to the first European brand value study, presented in Vienna by the European Brand Institute, Europe's most valuable brand is Nokia, which the study estimates is worth $40.6 billion. Nokia came ahead of Euro-giants like LVMH, Unilever, Telefonica, Vodafo...

The perennial rumors of a mobile phone from Google are currently in full flower with the Engadget blog claiming to have heard from reliable sources that Google's been working on a Linux mobile device OS and shopping it around to carriers and handset makers and tha...

Earthlink is getting out of the Wi-Fi business, rendering moot the fact that Google and Earthlink together won the deal last year to provide free Wi-Fi to San Francisco. The plan to provide free wireless isn't going to happen. Earthlink Chief Executive Rolla Huff ...

Nokia launched this week a new brand, Ovi (Finnish for 'door'), for its Internet-based initiatives in the direction of photos, maps, music and games. In a clear challenge to Apple, Nokia will - in Europe anyway - launch its very own Nokia Music Store in Q4 2007.

'The service is faster and more direct than accessing eBay via the mobile internet, as updates are sent automatically without the customer having to proactively monitor their bid,' Ian Jordan, head of product development, operations and innovation at eBay UK, told...

'The PSP's new Go!Explore combines the ease-of use and potential of the PSP with the strength of our highly accurate digital maps and innovative navigation features to provide a flexible offering that meets the needs of their on-the-go consumers,' said Jack Reinel...

Skype is blaming a 'massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update' for its system being down for two or three days last week. Well, that and a...

'The availability of Windows Live services for Nokia's devices demonstrates our commitment to delivering great mobile experiences and extending people's online lives - taking it from the PC to the device,' said Steve Berkowitz, SVP of the Online Services Business ...

'Lotus Expeditor is a flexible client infrastructure for composite applications that brings together a wide range of application types, from .NET, Eclipse and Java to Web 2.0,' said Larry Bowden, vice president of portals and interaction services, as IBM announced...

Skype now says that the instability of its network that began on Thursday, followed by what it calls 'critical disruption,' was triggered by a massive restart of Sykpe users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receivin...

According to a recent Datamonitor/Dimension Data survey, 100% of the business end-users surveyed use e-mail, 66% used IM...but only 80% used fixed-line telephones and 76% mobile telephones. Is this the beginning of the end for business calls?

'Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal.' With these two sentences, the management of Skype announced the company's return from the worldwide outage that began early Thursday afternoon as users around the world began to find they couldn't log on and make phon...

Microsoft's latest Office for the Mac, which hasn't seen an upgrade since Office 2004, has been pushed out until Macworld in mid-January so bugs can be fixed, losing Microsoft the Christmas shoppers. Last year Office on Apple represented 20% of the money spent on ...

A blogger calling himself 'Fake Steve Jobs,' whose parody of the Apple Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive amused and enthralled Silicon Valley, revealed himself on Sunday as an editor of Forbes business magazine. Dan Lyons is also known with his...

Sony and the Cell chip, used in its bedeviled PlayStation 3, have been charged with patent infringement in the patent-savvy prosecution-leaning Texas federal courts by an entity nobody ever heard of that can't be found on the Internet - or for that matter in corpo...

Wall Street Journal reported today 'The company, which has made billions of dollars in Web advertising on computers, is courting wireless operators to carry handsets customized to Google products, including its search engine, email and a new mobile Web browser, sa...

Two-year-old a la mobile is promising to announce the world's most secure Linux operating systems platform for smartphones any minute now. Its patented Mobile Security Engine combines enterprise security features like sandboxing and encryption with the bootloader ...

The city of Dallas has a population of 1.2 million and spans 385 square miles, while the metropolitan Dallas area has nearly 6 million people. Founded in 1841, Dallas is world-renowned as a center for IC technology, banking, telecommunications, and transportation....

Apple put its Safari browser on Windows, a browser that isn't even supposed to be the best browser for the Mac. Immediately the move was cast as a reprise of the browser wars and by jingo within 48 hours Apple was reporting more than a million downloads. Safari ha...

Users of the Mozilla's experimental 'Joey' service can archive their data on their own personal page, for retrieval by remote server to their cell phones later. It's being touted as a 'self-syndication' service, and can also be used to store and retrieve items s...

AMD dreams about its Centrino-like Puma widgetry, called its 'first explicitly mobile platform,' mauling Santa Rosa as though the new Intel device had been thrown to wild beasts in the arena. However, Santa Rosa is here and Puma notebooks aren't due before the mid...

Shimon Systems and AuthenTec announced an integrated solution to provide strong user authentication for WiFi networks. The integrated solution combines the unique technologies of both companies to help organizations overcome the historical weaknesses of WiFi secur...

Sybase iAnywhere is enhancing its presence in the telematics and embedded devices markets by enabling embedded applications to provide intelligent user interfaces and context-aware user interactions.

Dr. Karuv's students, their parents, and his stundent alumni whom he mentored for more than 13 years were outraged with Aloia's decision to close the research program and assign Dr. Karuv to a teaching job. Dr. Karuv brought close to 500 awards to his students and...

Bahadir Karuv (Ph.D., Physics) has been the research specialist at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, for the past 13 years. Dr. Karuv has been the advisor to the Academy's students in their research projects for more than a decade. On Saturday mor...

Santa Rosa, Intel's pace-sustaining contribution to the laptop push, is here at last, pulling in its wake 230 design-wins, by Intel's count, 50 more than the last Centrino outing. Some will be out faster than others and not everybody will be using the optional b...

Apple's first big music deal since Steve Jobs posted his Anti-DRM manifesto will have Apple distributing the bulk of EMI's music portfolio (sans the Beatles) DRM-free. Reportedly the deal was EMI's idea and is not exclusive. Apple will peddle the DRM-free tunes an...

The perfect storm is brewing in the business communications industry that will usher in a fundamental and dramatic shift in how business communications are provided. Smoothstone IP Communications is in the eye of this storm, changing the way enterprises across the...

Another day, another lawsuit. This time Microsoft is being sued for misappropriating trade secrets by Agere Systems Inc, which used to be part of AT&T's Bell Labs, then became a subsidiary of Lucent that was spun off as an independent company in 2001 and is now be...

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase Inc., a provider of delivery and settlement of messaging interoperability as well as the management and distribution of mobile content, has been selected by five mobile operators in the Pacific Islands to provide domestic and i...

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., has announced its enhanced global presence with the grand opening of its new office in Indonesia.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., has announced a partnership with blueapple.mobi to provide Internet-based multimedia - including podcasts, Flash video and audio - to users of Sybase 365's mFolio on mobile handsets.

Bluestreak Technology, Inc., the developer of the award-winning MachBlue(TM) platform for mobile phones and digital television, announced today that MachBlue Mobile will be commercially available for J2ME-compatible mobile phones.

Telenity (www.telenity.com), a leading provider of next generation converged services platforms and applications for communications networks, announced today that Nawras, the second leading operator in Oman, has selected its Canvas® CSP, Converged Services Platf...