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Research In Motion has been hit with a lawsuit alleging trademark infringement of the name "BBX." This latest thorn in the company's side follows a mortifying days-long global service outage and lackluster performance of its PlayBook tablet, to name just two recent setbacks ...

Microsoft is rolling out a service update for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for both the partner-hosted and on-premises deployments. ...

The ire exhibited by consumers in the wake of Bank of America's recent announcement that it would impose a US$5 monthly fee for using debit cards for retail purchases does not seem to have been a momentary flash -- at least, not based on findings in a survey by Trig (The Research Intelligence Group). ...

Oracle has scooped up RightNow Technologies, a cloud-based customer self-service application vendor, for a reported US$1.5 billion. The acquisition price is a hefty 20 percent premium over RightNow's closing price last week. ...

Sprint Nextel notified subscribers late last week that it was doing away with its unlimited 4G wireless broadband for tablets, netbooks, notebooks, USB cards and mobile hotspot devices -- almost every mobile device, that is, except smartphones, which it has famously promised to allow to consume unlimited data. ...

Verizon delivered excellent news to its shareholders on Friday: Third-quarter earnings rose to US$1.38 billion from $659 million a year earlier. A jump in subscribers -- it signed on 882,000 new wireless customers for the quarter -- and smartphone sales led to the doubling in profits. ...

The New York Times Co. reported a profit of US$15.7 million this quarter, compared with a $4.3 million loss in the same period last year. ...

The U.S. Department of Labor and Facebook are collaborating on an initiative that they hope will link more unemployed people with potential employers -- a job search page on Facebook. ...

Marketo is taking aim at the smaller end of the business community with Spark, a stripped-down version of its revenue performance management application. ...

Microsoft is partnering with two of the most visible players in the education industry -- Sesame Workshop and National Geographic -- to roll out a series of new "edutainment" video games for its Xbox 360 platform ...

Dropbox has completed a US$250 million Series B financing -- a windfall for a company whose fundraising up until now has netted $7.2 million. ...

The Novell v. Microsoft antitrust lawsuit entered its trial phase in the Utah U.S. District Court this week, with jury selection taking place on Monday. The case, which Novell originally filed in 2004, has traveled a long and winding road. ...

Apple did not violate four HTC patents, an International Trade Commission judge has ruled. ...

It is almost hard to remember when all Amazon did was sell books -- the paperback and hardcover versions, that is. Over the years, the company has morphed and then morphed some more into a multilayered e-commerce platform, selling everything from digital music to storage space in the cloud to, well, just about any consumer product imaginable. ...

Google appears to be working on an online music store that will compete with the established offerings of Apple and Amazon. ...

Motorola is trying for another bite at the Apple, so to speak. It has launched its Xoom Family Edition tablet -- a product clearly designed with aspirations to take on the iPad. ...

Quanta Computer has agreed to pay Microsoft a license fee for devices that run Google Android or Chrome. It is the latest deal in a series that Microsoft has inked with manufacturers using Android, and more lately, Chrome, in their products. ...

Verizon Wireless has changed its privacy policy to permit it to do, well, almost anything it wants to with users' data ...

Facebook, check. Twitter, check. RSS feeds, absolutely. Mobile, heck yes. In short, email marketing and marketing automation vendor Silverpop has been steadily adding the social and mobile channels to its range of offerings ...

The number of wireless subscriber connections in the U.S. is more than its actual population. In addition, Americans have doubled the amount of data traffic on wireless networks. So says trade group CTIA in its semiannual survey of the state of the industry. ...