Taking the next step to rein in European mobile phone industry
This week, the EU's telcommunications chief, will ask the European Parliament to extend roaming caps to mobile data and text messaging.
- Trash that talks

Sponsors feeling credit squeeze
Manchester United's suddenly closer link to the U.S. government is not the only potentially awkward marketing situation to arise from the financial turmoil.
- Why the Google-Yahoo ad deal is nothing to fear

Trash that talks
In Italy, a system allows garbage bins to 'tell' trucks whether to stop.

A new kind of venture capitalist makes small bets on young firms
Union Square Ventures focuses on services that use the Web to change a market rather than simply make it more efficient.

Why the Google-Yahoo ad deal is nothing to fear
Google does not set the prices of the search advertising market; its advertisers do. With auction pricing, even a major player can't control the market.

Technology doesn't dumb us down
Over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.

Brin, of Google, predisposed to Parkinson's
Sergey Brin, who made the announcement on a blog, says he does not have the disease and that the exact implications of the discovery are not clear.
- Google won't delay alliance with Yahoo

Oracle earnings beat expectations
But the company's weakening guidance for new software license sales may tell a different story.

Japan trade commission rules against Microsoft
The Fair Trade Commission told Microsoft to void clauses it has with Japanese PC makers that blocked them from taking legal action over patents involving the Windows operating system.

New group claims leadership of SAG
The shake-up could dislodge the logjam in contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild with the movie studios.

Palm's first-quarter loss widens, even as sales rise
Palm reported a fifth straight quarterly loss on Thursday after sales of its Treo and Centro smart phones fell further behind Research In Motion's BlackBerry. The shares fell 7.2 percent in extended trading.

Silicon Alley to Wall Street: Send us your resumés
After years of seeing technical talent lured to Wall Street by fatter paychecks and big bonuses, East Coast start-ups are offering jobs and some stability to those displaced by the financial crisis.

Yahoo moves ahead with new home page
The most heavily visited site on the Web is getting a radical redesign that gives users a personalized view of the wider Web.