AOL aims to further enhance its presence in the blogosphere by spending $25 million on Weblogs, Inc., a set of several dozen blog sites devotes to niche interests.
"The Governator" has signed California legislation which making it illegal to fraudulently solicit personal information over the Internet. Do you feel safer now?
A subsidiary of Sprint Nextel has filed a patent lawsuit against Vonage, alleging the VOIP company has willfully infringed on seven Sprint Nextel patents.
Mobile Research's Mobile Device Blue Book lists current and recently discontinued mobile devices, along with features, services, and capabilities. And it'll be updated every month!
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has called off talks with the major music labels over a subscription music service. The sticking point? Money, of course!
The IFPI reports digital music sales tripled to 6 percent of retail music revenue in the first half of 2005, nearly offsetting the market's overall decline.
Radio Shack will be selling AMD-designed Personal Internet Communicators for $299, built using Windows CE and designed to provide Internet Access and basic computing.
In a cost-cutting move, Dell will stop free home delivery of low-end computers on October 10; instead, customers have 10 days to pick up their systems at the post office.
Cingular has announced it will use RealNetworks' Helix OnlineTV as the technology behind the mobile video service it plans to debut by the end of 2005.
Famous for cost-cutting and commoditizing PCs, Dell's new XPS line goes the other way, offering high-performance, high-margin systems for luxury buyers.
Responding customer complaints on its forums and online sites, Apple acknowledges a "vendor quality issue" with LCD screens on the otherwise well-received iPod nano.
Electronic Arts has revealed its mobile game lineup for late 2005 and early 2006, and it includes entries based on the FIFA Street, Def Jam, and SimCity franchises.
Toshiba, the world's number three portable computer maker and primogenitor of the HD DVD format, announced on Tuesday it would roll out HD DVD-capable PCs in Japan in early 2006.
Google, the widely-used Internet search portal, turned seven years old today, and, in doing so, removed the famous statistic about the size of its search index from its home page.
A new study finds advertisers spent nearly $3 billion on online ads in the second quarter of 2005, and spent $5.8 billion during the first half of the year.
Chipmaker AMD took the wraps off three new dual-core Opteron processors today, and taunted Intel for not accepting AMD's offer of a public dual-core performance challenge.
Palm, Inc. has teamed up with longtime rival Microsoft to develop the new Treo 700 smartphone running Windows Mobile 5, to be available from Verizon in early 2006.
Take-Two Interactive has announced it will resume sales of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PlayStation 2 on October 18 - and it'll be rated "M," not "adults only."
After paying a whopping $1.85 billion for Ask Jeeves, IAC's CEO Barry Diller says the debonair butler is a good man, but he's going to have to let him go.
Reporters Without Borders has released a multilingual Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, showing online journalists and bloggers how to avoid oppressive censorship.
Verizon has inked a long-term deal with Disney to provide programming for FiOS TV, the telephone carrier's newborn video subscription service; Fox might be next.
Big media's offerings for U.S. mobile phones can be annoyingly mono-cultural; now Masttones builds some bridges by offering Bhangra, Bollywood, and South Asian fare for U.S. cells.
Alternative Web browser Opera has abandoned its built-in advertising and commercial licensing and is now available for free, although a paid support option is still available.
A study claims that despite limited niche appeal, as many as 33 percent of the U.S. population comfortable with the Internet could have portable DVD players by the end of 2005.
Nintendo surprised the industry at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show by unveiling a one-handed game controller you can wave like a sword and click like a remote.