Apple plans to buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for $275 million, a blog owned by the The Wall Street Journal said Monday, a move that would intensify Apple's growing competition with Google.

Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else.

A tegnapi Apple esemény legnagyobb attrakciója Steve Jobs nyilvános megjelenése volt. A nagy durranásokra hiába vártunk, csak kisebb petárdák pukkantak.

Vodafone is making a bid for the mobile applications market, by trying to attract developers with the promise of access to its large customer base.

EMC's revenue grew 18 percent in the second quarter ended June 30, a result the company attributed to massive growth in the data enterprises need to store.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by Microsoft to halt an antitrust suit that Novell filed against the company for anticompetitive behavior it said harmed its WordPerfect and QuattroPro business in the 1990s.

According to Microsoft, Xbox 360 sales have more than doubled since Halo 3's release on September 25. Additionally, the game attracted almost three million players to Xbox Live.

As anyone who's ever held forth in a barroom debate can attest, strange topics attract strange people.

The world's largest contract chip maker is offering new job seekers a chance to win Xbox 360 game machines if they apply for positions at the company, a sign of how eager Taiwanese tech companies are to attract workers.

YouTube Inc. is the most visited video Web site, attracting almost half of all visitors and towering over giants like Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL LLC and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, according to Hitwise Pty. Ltd.