Vodafone and Verizon to offer new touch-screen BlackBerry
The Storm will work both on the Verizon Wireless network and on Vodafone's, even though they use incompatible technologies.

Confidence falling among venture capitalists
Venture firms are increasingly worried that Wall Street's virus will spread through Silicon Valley.

Analysts cut outlook for worldwide cellphone sales
Forecasts point to lengthening cycles for phone replacement and weakening economies around the world.

Soothing jittery investors, one advertisement at a time
The same challenge is playing out in the marketing department of virtually every financial institution: to create a campaign that will project confidence amid the wreckage.

EU plans uniform protections for Internet shoppers
An estimated 150 million Europeans use the Internet to shop, but just one in five attempts to make purchases outside the home country, according to the European Commission.

'Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets
If you're the kind of person who types tipsy and regrets it in the morning, Google's "Mail Goggles," a new test-phase feature in the free Gmail service, might save you some angst.

To keep up with Intel, AMD will split itself in two
One heir to Advanced Micro Devices will focus on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them.

A new Ford key lets parents backseat drive, invisibly
MyKey, a feature being introduced on Ford vehicles, allows parents to limit teen drivers's speed, cap the volume on the car stereo and encourage other safe-driving habits.

EBay to cut jobs as it expands through acquisition
While announcing plans to lay off 10 percent of its 16,000 workers, eBay said it would pay $1.35 billion to acquire three other companies.

Media companies see the power of the social Web
Some executives hope that the ability to connect actions on news sites to social networks will keep visitors on their sites longer and make them more appealing to advertisers.

Spielberg severs ties with Paramount
Steven Spielberg, along with David Geffen and Stacey Snider, ended a sometimes stormy three-year relationship and cleared the way for a new film company they have had in the works for months.

Resistance to Google-Yahoo advertising deal grows
Some of the leading advertising agencies and industry associations that have come out against the deal are worried that prices will rise.