(Reuters) – Apple’s plan of offering television subscription via the Internet might receive a boost with U.S. media companies CBS and Walt Disney’s probable participation in the venture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will tweak its Word application to remove a feature judged to be a breach of patent, ensuring that it will be able to continue selling one of its most widely used programs.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc plans to issue $100 gift certificates to people who won’t receive its Nook electronic reader by December 24, if they had ordered it on time.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – IPhone app developer Tapulous says its sales have approached $1 million a month, providing fresh evidence of the growing success of start-ups designing programs for Apple Inc’s mobile device.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – World’s No. 2 memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc is seen capable of spending a higher-than-expected 2.3 trillion won ($2 billion) in capital expenditures next year, its top shareholder KEB said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Verizon Wireless on Friday defended its fee hikes on early cancellations of phone contracts, citing declining prices customers pay for handsets in a letter to regulators.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is in talks to buy Yelp Inc, the popular website for reviews of local businesses, in a deal that could help the Internet search leader tap a lucrative local ads market, media reports say.
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The music-game category raked in $1.4 billion in revenue last year, according to Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, driven largely by sales of “Rock Band 2″ and “Guitar Hero World Tour.” By the time 2009 comes to a close, Pachter expects the category to make half that — $700 million — despite such high-profile releases this fall as “The Beatles: Rock Band,” “Guitar Hero 5,” “DJ Hero” and “Band Hero,” not to mention “Guitar Hero: Van Halen,” which is due Tuesday (December 22).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eastman Kodak Co has won a preliminary fight with Samsung Electronics, which the camera giant had accused of infringing its digital camera patents.
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