SOFTWARE

The Google-sponsored Android mobile Linux project has released a rough-hewn Early Look version of the Android 1.5 SDK.

A recent study has confirmed the obvious that college students who spend more time on Facebook had lower GPAs and put them at risk of failing.

Even if rumors are off-base that Sun chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz is set to be replaced by chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, Schwartz has “a lot riding on showing growth or an exit strategy,” an analyst says

Yahoo shares rose Monday after reports that software maker Microsoft is discussing possible search and advertising partnerships with the Internet portal.

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders and creators of Skype, a free application allowing users to place free telephone calls over the Internet, are seeking a private equity firm to help them buy back the company from eBay Inc.

A proposed buyout of eBay Inc's Skype led by private equity, including Warburg Pincus and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and the Web telephone company's co-founders is unlikely to be completed, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on its blog on Monday.

The eBay and StumbleUpon union stumbled on Monday after the social networking site's founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, said they bought back the company with a group of investors, including Accel Partners and August Capital.

The eBay and StumbleUpon union came to an end on Monday after the social networking sites founders bought back the company, two years after being ebay bought them for $75 million.

NetSuite Inc has developed programs targeted at large corporations, a person familiar with the strategy said, in an effort to move the software maker beyond the small- to mid-sized business market.

NetSuite Inc, a maker of Web-based business management software for small- to mid-sized companies, has developed programs catering to large corporations, said a person familiar with the strategy.

The chief executives of Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc met last week to discuss potential partnerships between the companies' Internet search and advertising operations, the technology blog All Things Digital reported on Friday.

The founders of Web telephone service Skype, currently owned by eBay Inc, are interested in bidding for the company they sold some four years ago, according to a media report.

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in talks over a deal where the companies would sell advertising for each other, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on its Web site, citing sources close to the matter.

Microsoft has been hit with one of the largest patent awards on record, as a jury on Thursday ordered the software giant to cough up $388 million on claims that is misappropriated its technology.

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said on Thursday that it planned to buy privately held Tidal Software Inc for about $105 million in cash and incentives, to bolster its range of products and services for corporate data centers.

A new report from Microsoft shows that Windows Vista provides better security tan Windows XP.

Limbo and Brightkite announced on Wednesday that the two companies have agreed to merge to create the world's largest location-based social network discovery service.

As people cut back on travel and going out, they are turning more to home entertainment, providing a boost to the videogame industry that is under pressure to keep gamers amused and beat the recession.

Famed game designer Will Wright is leaving publisher Electronic Arts to focus on his own multimedia entertainment firm, the company said on Wednesday.

Nokia Siemens Networks' key attraction to Nortel Networks Corp is its quarter share of the North American telecom gear market, analysts said on Wednesday.

Nokia Siemens Networks' key attraction to Nortel Networks Corp is its quarter share of the North American telecom gear market, analysts said on Wednesday.