End of writers' strike seen as tonic for actors' negotiations
A tentative deal that would end a three-month-old writers' strike has already made the threat of a walkout by actors this summer less likely.
- Union leaders endorse tentative Hollywood accord
- Elections 2008: With shows like these, forget reruns

Regulator calls for lower SMS roaming charges
Viviane Reding, the author of the EU's cap on mobile phone roaming charges for voice calls last year, reiterated her threat to place similar limits on wireless data.

Firms cut forecast for global spending growth
A revision by Forrester Research assumes a mild recession in the United States in the first two to three-quarters of 2008.

Yahoo rejects Microsoft but leaves the door open
Yahoo indicated it could be lured to the negotiating table if Microsoft ups the ante, without mentioning the price it has in mind.
- Group offers to sell Yahoo shares to Microsoft
- Letter from Jerry Yang to Yahoo employees, Feb. 11, 2008

Tiny cellphone chip aims to reduce background noise
Audience, a Silicon Valley start-up company modeling its product on the human ear, plans to introduce on Monday an integrated circuit intended to improve the sound quality of cellphones.
- Internet service restored in Mideast and Asia
- Chinese cellphone users tune into music

Sony Ericsson to use Windows Mobile
Of the big five cellphone manufacturers, only Nokia, the market leader, will still decline to put Microsoft's phone operating system in its lineup.
- Tiny cellphone chip aims to reduce background noise
- Chinese cellphone users tune into music
- Internet service restored in Mideast and Asia
- Ericsson announces job cuts after slim proft

Trains in Europe offering Wi-Fi
While some railroad companies see Wi-Fi as a new source of revenue, others see it as a service or marketing perk.

Anti-obesity campaign in Britain goes big
The British government last month outlined a new strategy, including a three-year advertising campaign, to try to get Britons to slim down.

Facebook brings protest to Colombia
Millions demonstrated against the FARC in dozens of Colombian cities and worldwide thanks to the Facebook page of Oscar Morales.

Sunset for the European mobile phone industry?
As the most successful telecommunications companies pursue lower labor costs and new sources of revenue and profit overseas, Western Europe will fade even further in importance, experts say.

Bringing Fring into the mainstream
Avi Schecter believes that just about everything that people like to do on the Internet at their desks today they will soon want to do on their cellphone.

The mobile phone as computer
Mobile e-mail has become easier to set up, more intuitive to use and prices of both the service and the cellphones that make it possible have come down.

VOIP struggles to break into the mainstream
Voice-Over-Internet protocol, or VOIP, telephony has been technologically feasible but financially unsuccessful for a decade.