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US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing. http://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/news177257044.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:20:01 EST news177257044 (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://www.physorg.com/news175883415.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news175883415 (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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/news171096388.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:47:11 EST news171096388 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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/news169537570.html Technology Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:20:01 EST news169537570 (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://www.physorg.com/news168149125.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:40:01 EST news168149125 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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/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://www.physorg.com/news166888081.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:48:26 EST news166888081 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://www.physorg.com/news165678678.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:00:03 EST news165678678 (AP) -- Internet advertising revenue is down 5 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news163421600.html Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:53:56 EST news163421600 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure. http://www.physorg.com/news163225672.html Technology Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:28:24 EST news163225672 Google increased its share of the US online search market in April while Yahoo! and Microsoft both lost ground, according to figures released on Monday by tracking firm comScore. http://www.physorg.com/news161879047.html Technology Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:31 EST news161879047 Sales of personal computers in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan fell five percent in the first quarter from the previous year as a global economic slump hurt demand, a report said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news159425643.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:54:40 EST news159425643 (AP) -- Julie Larson-Green hopes you'll like Windows 7. If not, well, now you and a billion other people know whom to blame. http://www.physorg.com/news159365441.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:11:38 EST news159365441 (AP) -- Nokia Corp. on Thursday said profits plummeted 90 percent in the first quarter because of fading demand for mobile phones amid the worldwide downturn - but its shares surged as analysts had expected an even gloomier report. http://www.physorg.com/news159099507.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:18:56 EST news159099507 Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell by more than five percent last year and could face a "far worse" decline this year, market research firm Gartner Inc. reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158416508.html Technology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:35:28 EST news158416508 (AP) -- Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off 1,700 people worldwide to cut costs, as the global economic downturn strikes deeper into the mobile phone sector. http://www.physorg.com/news156517326.html Technology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:03:31 EST news156517326 Worldwide sales of hi-tech "smartphones" grew at their slowest pace yet in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the financial crisis hit demand, a research firm said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156063818.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:04:08 EST news156063818 Mobile phone sales grew by six percent in 2008 over the previous year but fell nearly five percent in the fourth quarter as the global economy weakened, market research firm Gartner said on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news155308101.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:08:52 EST news155308101