Good Web design can mean good business
Small business owners who venture online say the experience is generally worth it though the learning curve may be steep.

Managing the cost of digital tunes
Shazam has a deal with Vodafone in Britain to sell tunes and music videos over the phone for a fixed price, and Omnifone has built the price of the music into the cost of the phones.

Hollywood writers vote to end strike
Members of the Writers Guild of America have made it official, ending their bitterly fought strike at the 100-day mark by an overwhelming margin.
- End of writers' strike seen as tonic for actors' negotiations
- Union leaders endorse tentative Hollywood accord
- Elections 2008: With shows like these, forget reruns

U.S. bill would prevent providers from blocking Net content
The legislation is the latest to raise concerns about "net neutrality."

Hot from the cellphone high end: Cool talk
Say "Hola!" to the lineup of cool phones being shown off at the Mobile World Congress. Smart in both form and function, their slim casings hide a cornucopia of talents and skills.

Quitting Facebook gets easier
Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networking site.
- On Facebook, leaving is hard to do
- Facebook brings protest to Colombia

Yahoo investor calls on Microsoft to raise offer
The second-biggest investor in Yahoo also warned Yahoo that it had few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal.
- Yahoo buys Internet video company
- Group offers to sell Yahoo shares to Microsoft
- Microsoft to acquire Danger, maker of smartphones
- After rejection by Yahoo, Microsoft hints at a fight
- Letter from Jerry Yang to Yahoo employees, Feb. 11, 2008

Vodafone rejects EU call for caps on data roaming charges
The chief executive of the world's largest mobile phone operator called an ultimatum to slash charges or faces price caps "inappropriate" for a competitive industry.
- As Nokia gets bigger, rivals get hungrier
- Regulator calls for lower SMS roaming charges
- EU to issue ultimatum on data roaming charges
- Telecom operators move to lower data roaming rates

Intel raided as part of EU antitrust inquiry
The raid Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on Intel ahead of a hearing in Brussels next month to answer charges that it abused its dominance of the market for central processing units.
- Vodafone rejects EU call for caps on data roaming charges

Flawed software upgrade caused BlackBerry malfunction
Research In Motion blamed the flawed upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers for about three hours.