HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.
As growth in developed markets such as Europe, Japan and United States has stalled, the wireless industry is looking especially toward the elderly who have ...More
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for the group said on Wednesday.
Jiang Suhua, a lawyer at Yingke Law Firm in Beijing ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet.
Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy will do a 20-minute live-action film for the latest installment of Ubisoft's big-ticket shooter video game "Tom ...More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.
Mike Jones, who took over as co-president last month with Jason Hirschhorn, said that even within MySpace some employees have lost the will to keep ...More
SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.
LG, which is fighting an uphill battle against leaders Nokia, Blackberry maker ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.
"We are still dialoguing not just ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over carriage fees paid to broadcasters.
The group, which includes rival TV distributors such as Time Warner Cable Inc ...More
MIAMI (Reuters) - The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 million.
"We are looking forward to working with Verizon Wireless to deliver our fans the most extensive experience on ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products.
While analysts said the upgrade was significant and could help boost sales to phone carriers grappling with ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday.
The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make ...More
