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Over 157 million handsets were shipped worldwide in Q2 2004, and “with strong sales in all major regions, global handset (sales) grew at a 38-percent annual rate in the second quarter,” Strategy Analytics said in a statement. The research group also boosted its annual worldwide forecast for 2004 to a record 670 million phone unit shipments from the 586 million it had forecast earlier this… Read More

In her ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel, who issued an injunction against the original Napster in 2000, permitted the case to proceed through its discovery phase, saying the plaintiffs, including music publishers, songwriters and record labels, had the right to try to prove their allegations. Read more at Reuters Technology.

HP said the Web site allowing users to design their Compaq “X Gaming” machines would go live in June or July and offer a range of options with standard, off-the-shelf components. Retailers will also offer access to the machines through their own custom configuration kiosks. Prices will start at around $1,599 after promotions, HP executives said, and peak at more than $3,000. The announcement came at the start of… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment of America said its 989 Sports label would not release the professional or collegiate versions of its football and basketball games for the 2004-2005 season. The company's baseball, soccer and Olympics titles are unaffected, as is its hockey franchise, all of which have either been released or remain on track for release this year. A spokesman said the company intends to bring the football and basketball… Read More

A surge in buying by PC makers, among other issues, has supported the price rise, said Nam Hyung Kim, an analyst with iSuppli Corp. All of this has pushed spot prices to nearly double what they were a year earlier. Prices in the spot market for a popular type of memory chip, 256-megabit double data-rate memory, jumped 10.8 percent to $6.30, according to DRAMeXchange, an online memory marketplace. A year ago, prices were $3.33, said… Read More

Canon's “EOS Kiss” model has been flying off the shelves since its launch six months ago. Camera lovers were attracted by its 120,000 yen ($1,085) price tag, well below that of competing cameras from Nikon Corp and other rivals. “After all, to stimulate demand in this (the digital SLR) market, the key points are to improve camera performance and bring the selling price down,” Tadaaki Ando, deputy group… Read More

As the clock ticked toward the European Commission's final decision later this month, national antitrust experts from European Union states began an advisory meeting at 10 a.m. and were due to sit until 6 p.m. The Commission, which polices European antitrust laws, was to lay out its case against the world's biggest software company point by point and seek the opinion of national experts on each. Read the full story at Reuters… Read More

The software flaw, which affects the two latest versions of Microsoft's Outlook e-mail, calendar and contacts program, were initially rated as “important” in Microsoft's monthly security bulletin issued on Tuesday. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said that it reissued its latest security bulletin with a “critical” rating, which means that software should download and install a patch to correct the… Read More

Napster, owned by digital media company Roxio Inc. said its new “Super Peer” application uses International Business Machine Corp.'s eServer BladeCenter systems to store popular songs from Napster in on-site servers rather than from the Internet. Read the full story at Reuters Technology.

In a suit filed in a New York Federal Court, Rochester, New York-based Kodak alleged that Sony's products use technology invented by Kodak, including an “electronic camera utilizing image compression and digital storage.” Kodak, which is undergoing a tough transition toward digital products amid the decline of its film business, and Sony are among the leaders in sales of digital cameras, which do not use film and record… Read More

A total of about 50 jobs would be lost in the move. We are consolidating our design resources and this is part of our semiconductor product sector,” a Motorola spokeswoman told Reuters. “For all three design centers, we are looking at fewer than 50 employees in total.” She said the move was partly aimed at trimming costs. Read more at Reuters Technology.

Forty-two percent of the 300 respondents said they continue to use file sharing applications like Kazaa and networks like Gnutella, and 38.6 percent said they do their file swapping on company networks, according to the poll conducted by security provider Blue Coat Systems Inc. Nearly 70 percent of the peer-to-peer application users said they spend more than 16 minutes a day sharing files and close to 16 percent said they spend more… Read More

On one side are the creators of MyDoom and Bagle, who are believed to be spammers or spam groups because many variants of the viruses leave backdoors on infected computers that can be used to turn them into spam zombies, said Chris Belthoff, senior security analyst at anti-virus company Sophos Inc. On the other side is the person or group responsible for the Netsky virus, who do not have any profit motive, he said. “It… Read More

At a conference in Washington, three U.S. governors said their budgets could be devastated by a bill that would prevent them from taxing the monthly fees that Internet providers like EarthLink Inc. charge customers. Though few states currently tax Internet access, the bill could end up eating into revenues from telephone service, music sales and other activities that are already migrating to the Internet and could be bundled with… Read More

The Recording Industry Association of America, which cites digital piracy as a big factor behind a three-year slump in CD sales, said it filed five separate lawsuits against 531 users of undisclosed Internet Service Providers. The trade group filed four similar suits against 532 illegal file-shares in January. Read the whole story at Reuters Technology.