Standards divide European archives
Microsoft, again, is in a rivalry over software for government documents, this time as Europe prepares to digitize some of its archives.

Telecom Italia becomes national drama
The ownership of Telecom Italia has become "a political football," which does not bode well for its future success.
- Telecom Italia chairman resigns in dispute
- Investor seeks to drive out Telecom Italia chairman

Silicon Valley moneymen in a race for spectrum
Some of the Silicon Valley's most powerful investors have joined forces behind a bid for valuable radio spectrum that will be freed when television broadcasters convert to digital signals.

Phony MySpace pages designed to spark TV ratings
Producers are turning to the Web to court fans. In the case of CBS and "How I Met Your Mother," a faked fan page on MySpace had the intended effect.

On Advertising: A strategy of change
MDC Partners, an advertising conglomerate based in Toronto, hopes to get ahead in the intensely competitive advertising industry with a contrarian strategy of almost continuous change.

HP is imagining a Web friendly printer
The company is worried that if Web pages continue to prove hard to print, fewer people will be demanding its products.

The Nokia-Qualcomm disconnect
The companies have been fighting in European, Chinese and American courts since late 2005 over the value of Qualcomm's patented CDMA mobile telephone technology.

New boss to L.A. Times: Tribune first?
The financier Sam Zell, who has agreed to pay $8.2 billion for Tribune Co., appears to have taken sides in the dispute between its top newspaper holdings. Or has he?

AOL introducing paid search service
AOL is starting a new paid search service powered by Google technology.

Telecom offers a virtual America's Cup
Alcatel-Lucent, an America's Cup sponsor, will offer subscribers live coverage of the races by Web television, mobile phones and live animation.