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(AP) -- A college student found guilty of copyright infringement has to destroy files he illegally downloaded years ago. http://phys.org/news179429447.html Technology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:31:12 EST news179429447 US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing. http://phys.org/news179160205.html Technology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:00:01 EST news179160205 (AP) -- European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. http://phys.org/news177943402.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:03 EST news177943402 (AP) -- Some of the computer-industry's biggest players - such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. - have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits. http://phys.org/news177875245.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:03 EST news177875245 Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news177689414.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:10:54 EST news177689414 Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed Thursday. http://phys.org/news177257044.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:20:01 EST news177257044 Blackberry smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) announced Thursday it would buy back 1.2 billion US dollars worth of its stock to prop up the sagging share price amid heightened competition. http://phys.org/news176650206.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:30:25 EST news176650206 (AP) -- The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services. http://phys.org/news175883415.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news175883415 A new study backs longtime speculation on Wall Street that companies sometimes ballyhoo stock repurchase programs they never plan to pursue, hoping to stir a buzz that will mislead investors and pump up sagging share prices. http://phys.org/news174154158.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:40:06 EST news174154158 (AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. tapped its immense cash hoard and announced a deal Thursday to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA for $3 billion in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment. http://phys.org/news173609558.html Technology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:57:41 EST news173609558 (AP) -- A voter advocacy organization asked the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday to undo the sale by Diebold Inc. of its voting machine business, saying the transaction promotes a monopoly. http://phys.org/news173458551.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:20:01 EST news173458551 Microsoft's new search engine Bing posted a slight increase in its share of the US search market in August, the third month in a row of modest gains, according to online tracking firm comScore. http://phys.org/news172838265.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:50:01 EST news172838265 (AP) -- With the fate of its proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. uncertain amid antitrust scrutiny, Oracle Corp. is moving ahead with a new product incorporating both companies' technology, and snubbing Hewlett-Packard Co. in the process. http://phys.org/news172301350.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:00:01 EST news172301350 (AP) -- Uncertainty about Sun Microsystems Inc.'s future appears to have contributed to serious erosion in the company's market share for computer servers in the latest quarter, according to new data being released Wednesday. http://phys.org/news171096388.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:47:11 EST news171096388 (AP) -- Financier Carl Icahn, one of Yahoo Inc.'s largest stockholders, has sold 12.7 million shares to whittle his holdings in the slumping Internet company down a percentage point to a 4.5 percent stake. http://phys.org/news170964757.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:50:01 EST news170964757 The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, was back online on Tuesday after being shut down when a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine. http://phys.org/news170440686.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:10:01 EST news170440686 Yahoo! on Monday vowed to fight Microsoft on a new frontier, saying that having the software giant power its online searches won't stop it from battling for the devotion of Web surfers. http://phys.org/news170396755.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:40:03 EST news170396755 The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday. http://phys.org/news169537570.html Technology Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:20:01 EST news169537570 US media company EW Scripps Co. reported a surprise quarterly net profit on Monday, despite a 29 percent decline in advertising revenue, sending its shares sharply higher on Wall Street. http://phys.org/news169129489.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:25:32 EST news169129489 (AP) -- Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking through to them. http://phys.org/news168149125.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:40:01 EST news168149125 (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a $483 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc. http://phys.org/news167990950.html Technology Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:20:04 EST news167990950 Samsung Electronics Co., the world's leading computer memory chipmaker, on Friday posted what it called "outstanding" second-quarter results due to a recovery in prices and demand. http://phys.org/news167638830.html Technology Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:50:01 EST news167638830 South Korea's antitrust watchdog Thursday fined US firm Qualcomm a record 260 billion won (208 million dollars) for violating fair competition rules by abusing its market monopoly. http://phys.org/news167549766.html Technology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:36:46 EST news167549766 (AP) -- The recession continued to hurt eBay Inc. in the second quarter, as earnings and revenue fell amid a sales decline in the main online marketplace, overshadowing growth in the PayPal online payments and Skype communications units. http://phys.org/news167501034.html Technology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:30:01 EST news167501034 Personal computer sales in Asia ended two consecutive quarters of contraction to post robust growth in the second quarter of 2009, a report released Monday said. http://phys.org/news167279457.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:30:01 EST news167279457 (AP) -- The world's top cell phone maker, Nokia Corp., on Thursday said second-quarter earnings fell 66 percent as the global recession sapped demand. The company scrapped its target to gain market share this year and its stock sagged. http://phys.org/news166966488.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:36:17 EST news166966488 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s redesigned search site has attracted more Web surfers without doing much for the software maker's market share in its first month. http://phys.org/news166888081.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:48:26 EST news166888081 (AP) -- Dell Inc. said Tuesday that the U.S. personal computer market has reached its low point but that the timing of a global turnaround in the technology industry remains anyone's guess. http://phys.org/news166802831.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:07:38 EST news166802831 New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday. http://phys.org/news165678678.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:00:03 EST news165678678 A Swedish court on Thursday rejected calls for a retrial of four men found guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running filesharing site The Pirate Bay, saying the trial judge was not biased. http://phys.org/news165153412.html Technology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:20:02 EST news165153412