TECHNOLOGY

The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday.

Just as all rumors and signals were pointing to a Dec.9 launch for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, CNET.com has released a new report suggesting that the delay will continue.

AT&T's Web site lists the HTC Vivid at $100 on contract and the LG Nitro HD at $150, and both devices have 4.5-inch screens to go along with AT&T's new LTE network. They both also feature eight megapixel cameras with 1080p video capture and speedy dual-core processors. While the Vivid is only a few weeks old, the Nitro is brand new, and just squeaks past the Vivid on a few key items

Apple lost its iPad trademark battle in China on Wednesday, but the owner of the trademark, Proview Technology, may ask Apple to pay for a trademark transfer.

As the largest mobile phone carrier in the U.S., Verizon has a huge selection of smartphones. Now that they have the iPhone 4S, it's almost a one stop shop for high tech. Not only that, they have the largest high-speed data network to go along with it. New smartphones are now being optimized for use on the LTE network, although that technology is not as widespread as the 3G network.

Brewing giant Heineken is linking with social networking website Facebook to boost its global digital marketing, with the first fruits of the partnership being an online campaign aimed at making responsible drinking cool.

EU antitrust regulators are set to accept concessions offered by International Business Machines Corp and end an antitrust investigation, averting a possible fine, this month, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

AT&T Inc plans to forge ahead with its deal to buy Deutsche Telekom's U.S. wireless unit despite fierce regulatory opposition, and it has the financial resources to close the acquisition quickly, a top executive said on Wednesday.

EU antitrust regulators are set to accept concessions offered by International Business Machines Corp and end an antitrust investigation this month, averting a possible fine, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

J.C. Penney Co Inc bought a 16.6 percent stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc and will build mini-stores under that brand in a deal new Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson called a key centerpiece in the company's transformation.

Online sales climbed 15.6 percent in November and are doing well so far in December, as shopping from computers, tablets and mobile phones gain in popularity, according to data released by IBM Benchmark on Wednesday.

With news that Google Chrome is honing in on Internet Explorer for Web browsing dominance, now is a good time to see if Apple or Android has a better Web browsing system in place. Google Chrome is actually not used in the Android mobile operating system. However, Apple does use its Safari browser for its iOS devices. The Android Web browser doesn't have a name.

An Apple Store will open in Grand Central Terminal on Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. Read why the historic train station and the artistic tech company are a perfect match for one another.

Research In Motion has unceremoniously dumped the BBX brand name it had chosen two months ago for its new BlackBerry operating system after a U.S. court embarrassed the beleaguered smartphone maker by slapping a temporary ban on its use.

Apple’s expected unveiling of iTV a year from now, coupled with continued huge sales of iPads and iPhones should create “a halo effect” to propel shares to around $500, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek told International Business Times.

Flipboard for iPhone was released as a free app Wednesday, but the service quickly faltered as its servers struggled to keep up with the high demand.

One unlikely group has joined the scramble to buy up porn site URLs not that .xxx domains are up for sale by the ICM Registry: U.S. colleges and universities. Why did schools like Indiana University, Chicago State and Northwestern spend thousands on Porn Tuesday? Because college officials believe porn parodies under their name can't be far behind.

Since launching in 2010, Apple's iPad has been the global leader in tablets. But since Amazon's first table, the all-new low-priced Kindle Fire came out in November Apple's dominance may be sagging. In a new analyst note, Shaw Wu of the brokerage firm Stern Agee sees iPad sales as a little light in the current quarter.

Alec Bladwin got kicked off an American Airlines flight for playing Words with Friends. Here are 9 other just as addicting games.

Multinational companies operating in China are placing less importance on the world's second-biggest economy amid rising local competition and concern over intellectual property rights, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Software company Basis International Ltd said a U.S. federal court in Albuquerque has granted a temporary restraining order against Research in Motion, barring the BlackBerry maker from using Basis' BBX trademark.

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ:RIMM) is said to have delayed the launch of its first BlackBerry 10 OS-run London smartphone by at least 3 months.

Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is steadily making progress on its ambition to enter consumers' living rooms, via its own television sets called iTV, which are expected to be launched in the first half of 2012.

According to Jeffries, Verizon Communications Inc.'s (NYSE: VZ) standalone video streaming service, which is expected to launch in 2012, could be another potential competitor for Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX).

Paulina Gretzky, the deletion of whose Twitter account made headlines over the last few days, is now apparently back on the social networking Web site. She tweeted: Hi, everyone I'm back! But shhh don't tell my dad.

The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city neighboring Hong Kong, earlier this week rejected a lawsuit by Apple accusing Proview Technology (Shenzhen) of infringing on its iPad trademark.

Olympus Corp's board signaled plans to quit over a $1.7 billion accounting fraud, but will likely pick a team of potential successors, triggering a battle for control of the Japanese firm with the former CEO who blew the whistle on the scandal.

A dark-colored roof, a private jogging path, walkways and modest changes to the additional fitness center are some of the main inclusions in Apple's newly submitted renderings of its proposed 13,000-employee mega-campus in Cupertino, Calif.

HTC Corp has no plans for now to change its fourth-quarter sales guidance, as shares in the world's No.4 smartphone maker tumbled nearly 7 percent on Wednesday on worries that a 30 percent drop in monthly sales may point to worse times ahead.