In the wake of Research in Motion's recent outage that left millions of users without access to their data and email, Vodaphone UK has announced that it will use a third-party solution to guarantee Blackberry service.
Research In Motion, the maker of the Blackberry handset said on Monday it's suing Motorola, claiming that the company infringed some of its patents and over exorbitant licensing fees Motorola charges while refusing to acknowledge or pay royalties for certain patents held by RIM.
Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet firm, will seek a stronger voice for its management team in Microsoft's talks to acquire Yahoo, Alibaba's largest shareholder, a source said on Monday. Based on the original agreement with Yahoo, which owns 39 percent of Alibaba, the Chinese company is in a very strong position to influence how shares would be transferred to any new owner, said the source, who is close to Alibaba.
Disneyland Resort will later this week partner with Microsoft, software provider Lifeware and home builder Taylor Marrison to create an attraction featuring digital home technologies of the future.
Yahoo's second biggest investor called-on Microsoft to increase its 42 billion bid for the web giant, and also increased pressure on Yahoo by saying it had few options left, increasing the pressure on the two companies to seal a deal that Yahoo had rejected earlier.
Yahoo Inc ousted archrival Google in a deal with T-Mobile in Europe and unveiled a service to squeeze social Web connections on to phone screens on Tuesday, a day after rebuffing a $41.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.
Yahoo rejected the unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer from Microsoft on Monday, saying the bid undervalued the company, putting pressure on the world's largest software company to sweeten the bid.
Yahoo rejected the unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer from Microsoft on Monday, saying the bid undervalued the company, putting pressure on the world's largest software company to sweeten the bid.The following is the email that Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo issued to employees:
The first phones to be loaded with Google's Android mobile software have been unveiled at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The first mobile phones fitted with Google's Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a key advance in the struggle to bring the power of desktop computing to handsets.
Yahoo Inc on Monday rejected as too low Microsoft Corp's unsolicited takeover offer, currently valued at $42 billion, putting the ball back in the software giant's court to pursue a deal. In a statement, Yahoo said its board unanimously concluded the proposal was not in the best interests of its shareholders.
Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software.
Google's Android mobile operating system may be the face of the show at the world's biggest wireless fair next week as the firm expects many companies to demonstrate their prototype devices using its Android OS.
A major investor in Yahoo Inc has met with Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited offer for the company, the New York Post reported on Friday. Capital Research and Management, which owns more than 11 percent of Yahoo shares and more than 6 percent of Microsoft, wants to know how much more the software maker might pay if Yahoo rejects the initial offer, the Post said, citing a source familiar with the meeting.
A major investor in Yahoo Inc has met with Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited offer for the company, the New York Post reported on Friday.
Yahoo Inc's board of directors is to meet on Friday to discuss Microsoft Corp's $44.6 billion buyout offer, the TechCrunch blog said, citing unnamed sources. Yahoo officials could not immediately be reached.
On Thursday, Google expanded its free software suite, called Google Apps, to the enterprise market, allowing co-workers to collaborate on documents, calendars or presentations and to chat via instant messaging.
Skeptical investors are trading Yahoo Inc shares at a 6.5 percent discount to Microsoft Corp's unofficial offer price, but some Wall Streeters expect the software giant to raise its bid.
Rupert Murdoch, Chair of global media giant News Corporation, has said that he would not be making a rival bid for Yahoo, in response to Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer made last week.
Graphics chip maker Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it will acquire physics technology developer Ageia in a move that may bring more realism to gamers
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is taking his company's $45 billion bid to acquire Internet portal Yahoo public after being rejected last year, saying it is in the best interest of both firms to better compete in the online market.
Recent RealNetwork's RealPlayer media software has been labeled badware or spyware by Stopbadware.org, an industry-academia group which raise awareness over software that violates privacy terms and fair information.
