Court sides with LVMH over eBay
The decision thrusts France, the home of many prominent luxury houses, further into the forefront in the battle against brand piracy.

France Télécom walks away from TeliaSonera bid
The French company said it was unwilling to raise its bid for its Finnish-Swedish rival, as the project was "not essential to the pursuit of its strategy."

Qualcomm threatens Intel with low-power chip
Intel might do well to be alarmed by Qualcomm's new computer chips that use less than half the power of a similar chip recently introduced by Intel. Intel, Qualcomm, personal computer, chip maker

Rift delays release of study on safety of cellphones
Many of the individual countries taking part have started to release results, some of which have shown an increased risk of brain tumors for heavy users.

An exchange for broadband capacity?
Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union, said companies could improve efficiency and reduce prices by trading the excess capacity of their networks.

Google and creator of 'Family Guy' strike a deal
Google will syndicate a new animation series using its AdSense advertising system to Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the show's target audience.

'Kung Fu Panda' is a success at the box office in China
Despite calls in China to boycott the animated film about a panda with a passion for martial arts, the film, from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures, has already grossed more than $12 million after less than two weeks in release.

Panned 'Love Guru' heads to India
"The Love Guru," the new Mike Myers movie, has appalled some Hindus in the United States and other countries where it has been screened, and a religious group in India is calling for a boycott before the film has even arrived.

An emerging market for market data
Reuters has dispatched about 60 reporters to a region of India to report on going prices for crops and is packaging the data into mobile phone text messages that are sent to subscribers.

Need press? Repeat: 'Green,' 'sex,' 'cancer,' 'secret,' 'fat'
Strategic word selection can catapult an announcement about a product or a "breakthrough" onto the evening news instead of to the spam folder or circular file.