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US speech recognition company Nuance Communications Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has acquired British voice-to-text firm SpinVox for 102.5 million dollars in a stock and cash deal. http://www.physorg.com/news181407311.html Technology - Business 2009-12-30T15:10:04-07:00 (AP) -- Time Warner Cable says it will agree to binding arbitration to settle a fee dispute with the Fox broadcast network. http://www.physorg.com/news181401477.html Technology - Business 2009-12-30T14:10:04-07:00 (AP) -- Broadcom Corp. said Tuesday it will pay more than $160 million in cash to settle a class action investor lawsuit related to stock option backdating, but did not admit wrongdoing. http://www.physorg.com/news181334783.html Technology - Business 2009-12-29T19:00:01-07:00 (AP) -- Nokia Corp. is broadening a legal dispute it already has with Apple Inc. over the iPhone, saying almost all of the company's other products also violate the Finnish phone maker's patents. http://www.physorg.com/news181314766.html Technology - Business 2009-12-29T13:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- The head of mobile phone operator O2 has apologized to customers in the British capital who were unable to make calls after the group's network was swamped by people using smart phones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone. http://www.physorg.com/news181312166.html Technology - Business 2009-12-29T12:40:04-07:00 (AP) -- AT&T Inc. suspended online sales of iPhones to New Yorkers over the weekend for unknown reasons, then abruptly started selling them again just as mysteriously on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news181226323.html Technology - Business 2009-12-28T13:00:03-07:00 Taiwan's Inventec Corp, the world's fourth largest contract notebook computer maker, said Monday it will spend 800 million US dollars to build a plant in southwestern China. http://www.physorg.com/news181193916.html Technology - Business 2009-12-28T03:39:13-07:00 The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of the US media and entertainment giant. http://www.physorg.com/news180805095.html Technology - Business 2009-12-23T18:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. has agreed to pay the camera maker an undisclosed sum as the two sides try to settle a dispute over patents used in Samsung's camera phones. http://www.physorg.com/news180798064.html Technology - Business 2009-12-23T13:41:40-07:00 Long-suffering German semi-conductor maker Infineon raised its quarterly sales target Tuesday owing to stronger demand from clients in the automotive and energy sectors. http://www.physorg.com/news180705266.html Technology - Business 2009-12-22T11:54:37-07:00 (AP) -- An appeals court is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay $5.6 million to a national law firm involved in a Wisconsin antitrust case against the software giant. http://www.physorg.com/news180704739.html Technology - Business 2009-12-22T11:45:56-07:00 Chinese high-tech giant Lenovo plans to set up a research and development centre in Taiwan as the firm tries to take advantage of warming cross-strait ties, a report said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news180688436.html Technology - Business 2009-12-22T07:14:15-07:00 (AP) -- Yahoo says it will close its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first time since 2001. http://www.physorg.com/news180684229.html Technology - Business 2009-12-22T06:20:03-07:00 (AP) --Howard Stern is threatening to leave Sirius XM Radio Inc. now that the shock jock and the satellite radio provider are getting set to enter contract talks in 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news180638046.html Technology - Business 2009-12-21T17:15:12-07:00 (AP) -- Stores in the snow-battered East Coast may have been sparse this weekend, but shoppers kept spending online. Retailers spurred sales with new discounts and shipping offers to make sure gifts arrive by Christmas. http://www.physorg.com/news180617095.html Technology - Business 2009-12-21T11:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- Panasonic Corp. said Monday that it had taken majority control of Sanyo Electric Co., officially forming one of the world's largest electronics makers. http://www.physorg.com/news180616855.html Technology - Business 2009-12-21T11:21:26-07:00 Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising markets, observers say. http://www.physorg.com/news180606013.html Technology - Business 2009-12-21T08:21:03-07:00 Google smartphones are either a daring foray into the telecom world or a misunderstood test of the next-generation of the Internet giant's Android mobile operating system. http://www.physorg.com/news180426137.html Technology - Business 2009-12-19T06:23:21-07:00 The Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Intel Wednesday -- the most far-reaching in a string of recent regulatory actions -- poses a huge threat to the Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant and could reshape the semiconductor industry, according to Wall Street analysts and other experts. http://www.physorg.com/news180359860.html Technology - Business 2009-12-18T12:10:02-07:00 (AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn reported taking a more than 11 percent stake in the company and said he may seek talks with management. http://www.physorg.com/news180342409.html Technology - Business 2009-12-18T07:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news180291712.html Technology - Business 2009-12-17T17:40:02-07:00 (AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. surprised Wall Street on Thursday as it reported a 59 percent increase in third-quarter income, boosted by new subscribers and record sales of its smart phones. http://www.physorg.com/news180291468.html Technology - Business 2009-12-17T17:00:28-07:00 (AP) -- Oracle Corp. said Thursday that its profit jumped 12.5 percent in the latest quarter and that it expects the European Union will finally approve its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. next month. http://www.physorg.com/news180289340.html Technology - Business 2009-12-17T16:40:02-07:00 As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft. http://www.physorg.com/news180273039.html Technology - Business 2009-12-17T12:10:01-07:00 (AP) -- Procter & Gamble Co. is getting a digital divorce from Kroger Co., severing the online coupon program the two Cincinnati-based companies began two years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news180249919.html Technology - Business 2009-12-17T06:58:45-07:00 US computer giant Dell will cut 700 jobs in Malaysia as it looks to slash costs, newspaper reports said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news180194765.html Technology - Business 2009-12-16T14:08:53-07:00 (AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission piled on new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. on Wednesday, seeking to end what it described as a decade of illegal sales tactics that have crippled rivals and kept prices for computer chips artificially high. http://www.physorg.com/news180181446.html Technology - Business 2009-12-16T10:50:07-07:00 (AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday that although it booked a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter, consumer demand improved and allowed the maker of Photoshop and Flash software to post an optimistic outlook for the current period. http://www.physorg.com/news180116957.html Technology - Business 2009-12-15T16:50:03-07:00 Worldwide sales of mobile devices are expected to decline by nearly 0.7 percent this year and pick up again next year with nine percent growth, Gartner research group said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news180112325.html Technology - Business 2009-12-15T15:30:14-07:00 South Korea's LG Electronics announced Tuesday it plans to sell 400,000 three-dimensional televisions next year by teaming up with local digital satellite broadcaster SkyLife. http://www.physorg.com/news180113024.html Technology - Business 2009-12-15T15:24:30-07:00