The company that made its billions selling ads for Web searches is now officially in the telecommunications business, as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) demonstrated Tuesday with the launch of its branded Nexus One smartphone. However, can the same success that saw “Google” become a verb be translated to the burgeoning mobile market? Is there anything in ...

The Gray Lady may once again ask for some green if you want to view something that’s black and white and read all over. Reports surfaced over the weekend that The New York Times is about to announce another attempt at a paid-access business model for its Web site, with management apparently deciding that a ...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who was twice found liable for copyright infringement for sharing two dozen songs using an online file-sharing application, has turned down an offer to settle her US$54,000 penalty for less than half that amount. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave Thomas-Rasset the option of settling the case for ...

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) says it will focus strongly on customer service and support for customers of both its products and those of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA), whose acquisition it completed on Wednesday. “We believe our customers deserve the best level of support and it’s our job to make that extremely compelling,” Juergen Rottler, executive vice ...