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 New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience. The potential pitfalls have made most other major newspapers hesitant to take a similar step. However, after ...

Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack from rivals and other critics trying to block a revised legal settlement that would unlock a vast electronic library. The opposition fired its latest salvo Thursday, the deadline for filing objections with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New ...

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 ...