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Many BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa found Monday that their Internet service had inexplicably had gone dark. Some were experiencing a total blackout, with no messaging service, email or Web access available. Others were able to intermittently perform some tasks, such as email...

Sprint Nextel investors have received some very good news and very bad news. The good news is that the company plans to step up deployment of its Network Vision. This plan, originally described in December 2010, calls for a comprehensive, nationwide rollout of 4G LTE on its licensed spectrum. At the...

Ejected from Oracle's Open World. An impromptu gathering at a nearby restaurant. Fulsome explanations from PR flacks and tweets galore. The relations between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff went from wary and grudging mutual admiration, to red hot rhetoric. How red hot...

Chrome, a relative newbie in the browser world, appears poised to take over the No.2 spot -- possibly within the next three months. Chrome's current global average user share is 23.6 percent, according to StatCounter. User share for Firefox, the No. 2 provider after Internet Explorer, stands at 26.8...

Is the tablet market so saturated that Research In Motion has thrown in the towel? The company has halted production of its PlayBook and will not pursue any other tablet projects, according to a research note from Collins Stewart Hawkpoint analyst John Vinh. RIM, for its part, staunchly denies the c...

Amazon's Kindle Fire debuted Wednesday morning with much fanfare. Many of the tablet's specs were already known, leaked or widely suspected, leaving little to wow the crowds -- except the price point. The device is going to retail at an eyebrow-raising US$199, several hundred dollars less than the ...

Shares of Research In Motion showed signs of life, jumping at least 6 percent Tuesday, on talk that investor Carl Icahn has acquired a stake in the company. Neither RIM nor Icahn has commented publicly to confirm or deny the rumors. Icahn is a so-called activist investor who takes stakes in struggli...

OnStar recently raised hackles in the privacy community with revisions to its privacy policy. Now, members of Congress have taken up the issue. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the new policy on the grounds that it may be an unfair or deceptive trad...

Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. The company's board of directors is reportedly meeting on this and other issues this week. The board is said to be eying former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a replacement. Whit...

"I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation." Thus begins a blog post by Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, announcing a new change to the company -- a change that is almost guaranteed to further irritate an already angry and frustrated customer base. The change, in a nutshell, is this: In addition to c...

Sony has changed the rules of engagement -- or rather, terms of service -- for users of its PlayStation Network. In the new agreement, users opt to give away their right to join a class action lawsuit against Sony. In addition, the agreement contains a binding individual arbitration clause. Users wh...

Google, until recently a piker in the patent-holding tech community, is rapidly beefing up its portfolio -- or arsenal, depending on how one views it -- of intellectual property. The company has acquired 1,023 patents from IBM. These patents are on top of the 1,030 Google acquired from IBM in July, ...

First it gave Apple the preliminary injunction it was seeking against Samsung's Galaxy Tab. Then it suggested it might have been at least partly mistaken. Now the Dusseldorf court that has been hearing Apple's patent suit against Samsung's Galaxy 10.1 tablet, has confirmed that yes, Samsung's German...

It will keep prices at their current low level. It will hire more people, lots more. It will sell a significant chunk of T-Mobile's stock. If it has to, it will go to court. AT&T, in short, appears ready to jump over whatever hurdles the DoJ places before it to win its prize: the acquisition of ...

It will keep prices at their current low level. It will hire more people, lots more. It will sell a significant chunk of T-Mobile's stock. If it has to, it will go to court. AT&T, in short, appears ready to jump over whatever hurdles the DoJ places before it to win its prize: the acquisition of ...

When Google settled with the U.S. Department of Justice for $500 million over accusations that it allowed Canadian pharmaceutical companies to illegally place ads on its network, it may have thought its troubles with this issue were over. It was wrong. A shareholder has filed suit against the compa...

After two months of basking in the accolades Google+ has received, Google's social media strategy is again the cause of some head-scratching. The search engine has decided to shut down Slide, a social media app and game maker that it bought about a year ago. Even more eyebrow-raising: Its founder an...

Google has agreed to a $500 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice for allowing online Canadian pharmacies to place ads through its AdWords program targeting consumers in the United States. The ads resulted in the illegal importation of controlled and non-controlled prescription dru...

The 45,000 striking union workers have returned to their posts at Verizon Communications after nearly three weeks on picket lines. Earlier this month, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers voted to go on strike after they said they had been una...

HP on Thursday shared some eyebrow-raising news regarding its operations, essentially proposing to reposition itself to solely focus on the enterprise market. Briefly, it plans to shutter development of hardware for webOS devices, acquire Autonomy, and either spin off or sell its PC division. The l...