EU regulator threatens to go public with cellphone companies' fees
The European telecommunications regulator plans to name and shame operators that do not cut prices for roaming text messaging and wholesale data transmission by July 1.

Jay-Z, the remix: Rapper to team up with Live Nation in new kind of music deal
In a move that reflects the anarchy sweeping the music business, the rapper Jay-Z is about to close a deal with a concert promoter that rivals the biggest music contracts ever awarded.

Google is cutting about 300 jobs at DoubleClick
The cuts, at a company Google acquired recently, are the first sizable layoffs in Google's history.

After yearlong battle, Microsoft open document format wins
Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, ending a divisive yearlong battle with some of its commercial competitors before a global standards-setting organization.

Tackling cybercrime: guidance on sharing Internet data
The Council of Europe guidelines on cooperation between the police and Internet service providers, adopted at a conference in Strasbourg Wednesday, are an attempt to smooth uneasy confrontations when investigators seek information from Internet providers.

Nokia offers mini Web browser, and Yahoo improves cellphone Internet searches
Sprint Nextel's new ultrafast cellular data network is getting some support from Nokia, which said that it would introduce a Web-browsing "tablet" for the WiMax network as it goes live this summer.

U.S. edition of Wall Street Journal to be printed in London
The Dow Jones publishing business, recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch, will start printing the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal in London this month.

Hitting a wall in Berlin over GPS
Nokia and T-Mobile are sparring over customers for navigation services on cellphones.

CBS-owned TV news stations cutting staff
Over the past several days, layoffs have been ordered at local stations that CBS owns, including ones in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The CBS News network also plans to lay off some of its staff.

Playboy, minus full frontal nudity, makes debut in Philippines
The editor in chief says the local edition will contain articles and fiction from some of the country's best-known writers but will not "lock horns with the church."

Olympic committee tells China to keep Internet open during Beijing Games
Beijing is committed by its "host city contract" to provide the estimated 30,000 media expected for the Olympics the freedom to report as they have at previous Games, the panel said Tuesday.

FCC chief opposes opening all U.S. wireless networks to Skype

Kevin Martin, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, said Tuesday that he would oppose a petition from the Web-based telephone service Skype to open up all wireless networks, citing policies designed to protect network operators from devices that can degrade call quality.

April 1: When Sun Microsystems has fun
On April 1, 1988, Scott McNealy, then chief executive of Sun Microsystems, walked into his office and found it transformed into a par-four golf hole.

The Huffington Post is being reborn as an 'Internet newspaper'
Arianna Huffington's increasingly popular Web site has introduced new content areas devoted to subjects like entertainment and business, and has three more - international news, sports and books - coming soon.
- U.S. newspaper ads suffered in '07

IBM temporarily barred from seeking U.S. government contracts
The world's largest provider of computer services said the suspension was tied to possible violations of ethical bidding provisions.

McDonald's tries 'dark' marketing

McDonald's is not a company known for its "dark" marketing. It's more a try-our-new-salad, get-your-Shrek-action-figure, look-at-our-dollar-menu sort of place.

Gore seeks to recruit 10 million to fight global warming
Al Gore and his climate protection group plan a $300 million advertising blitz over three years to recruit Americans to lobby.

U.S. newspaper ads suffered in '07
Newspaper advertising revenue in the United States fell 7.9 percent in 2007, the second-worst year in more than half a century, according to the Newspaper Association of America.

Europeans telecommunications companies hit by prediction of lower rates
Shares of companies like Vodafone Group, Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica fell Monday after Morgan Stanley said regulators would cut rates "aggressively" for calls between fixed and mobile phones.

IBM temporarily barred from seeking U.S. government contracts
The world's largest provider of computer services said the suspension was tied to possible violations of ethical bidding provisions.

China Telecom posts 37 percent drop in quarterly profit
The company has been hurt as China consumers increasingly turn to mobile phones from fixed-line telephones.

STMicro and Intel clinch memory deal
STMicroelectronics and Intel on Monday completed the Numonyx joint venture that combines their unprofitable flash-memory units, creating the biggest maker of chips that store software in mobile phones.

Social network sites get real-time chat
A new wave of Silicon Valley companies is bringing live socializing back into a medium that has, in the parlance of the technologists, grown overly asynchronous.

Web sites help with the appointment book
The e-commerce bandwagon bypassed millions of carpenters, massage therapists, lawyers and other service providers, mostly because it is impossible to drop an appointment into a shopping cart without unleashing a scheduling nightmare.

Europe poised to bolster Web shield

Nearly a year after Estonia weathered an onslaught of cyberattacks, its name has become a rallying cry for countries pressing to strengthen global cooperation between governments and private Internet service providers to combat computer crime. But some privacy advocates and computer experts remain wary of such efforts.

Hollywood and Xbox forge link
A veteran Hollywood executive will produce original shows for distribution on the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft.

Little but trouble in Georgia for News Corp.
The Georgian government's allegations that a News Corp.-controlled TV station had been involved in a coup plot serve as a reminder of the risks Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate runs in pursuit of new markets.

Vote on a Web standard too close to call
Microsoft's pursuit of a global industry standard for its open-document format, is set to conclude this week after a final round of voting.

Shake-up at Thomson as company warns on sales outlook
Thomson, the French media and technology company, said Sunday that Frank Dangeard, its chairman and chief executive, was stepping down, and it warned that first-quarter sales would decline from a year earlier.

Alice Rawsthorn: Navigating a badly informed world of information
For every shining example of good information design, there are many more bad ones. We're all familiar with them, often painfully so. Confusing maps. Misleading signs. Dysfunctional Web sites. Over-complicated forms.

Buy or build technology? The pros and cons
Corporations have promoted alliances with rivals and pushed the concept of "open innovation" to get more big brains working on core problems.

Watching video almost anywhere you want
Digital projectors were once bulky, but pint-size versions are in the works, which will let people beam video from hand-held devices onto nearly any smooth surface.