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PHILADELPHIA - Sprint Nextel Corp. is close to finalizing a deal to get financing for its new wireless broadband network from a group that includes Comcast Corp. and Google Inc., according to a person close to the talks.

SAN FRANCISCO - Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury.

LONDON (Reuters) - Newspapers seeking to compete with the Internet are likely to become free and place greater emphasis on comment and opinion in the future, a survey of the world's editors showed on Tuesday.

Microsoft Tuesday released the third service pack for Windows XP to the Web after last week delaying its scheduled release...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Video-game publisher Electronic Arts Inc unveiled two initiatives on Tuesday to breathe new life into its sports business by making games that are easier to play and customized for Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) popular Wii console.

SAN FRANCISCO - After fending off months of threats by Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc.'s directors still will have to fight for their jobs as the company's own irate shareholders plot a mutiny.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc, the world's largest bookseller, said on Tuesday it will sell digital and print magazine subscriptions though its online segment, BN.com.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel and Clearwire Corp are close to announcing a $12 billion joint venture for ultra-fast wireless Internet access for mobile phones and laptop computers, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday.

SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Jurors have reached a verdict in the corporate espionage lawsuit against News Corp unit NDS Group Plc by DISH Network Corp, but the judge said on Wednesday he would first have to consider whether a legal issue warranted a mistrial in the case.

San Francisco - Nokia and Ikivo are partnering to build tools that enable collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile devices.

The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers...

SAP is developing new business process management (BPM) tools under the code name "Galaxy" and will first release them in the...

Due this summer is an SAP CRM app that's been "merged" with BlackBerry e-mail, address book, and calendar applications.

SEOUL, South Korea - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, traveling through Asia, met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and championed his vision of the future of high tech and the Internet.

ooVoo on Thursday announced the launch of a Mac version of its video chat service. The software is available for free and can be downloaded from the ooVoo Web site.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.

To help IT departments prepare for the coming onslaught of data, HP on Tuesday introduced a platform that combines storage and...

DENVER - Qwest Communications International Inc. reported Tuesday its first-quarter net income fell 35 percent as tax expenses jumped and more customers halted service amid the languishing economy and stiff competition.

Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology.

Apple's iPhone got new competition Tuesday as HTC unveiled the 3G Touch Diamond. The new smartphone will be HTC's flagship model as it vies to grab market share from touchscreen competitors.

HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to a Cuban blogger who was to have flown to Spain to receive a top journalism award, the writer told AFP Tuesday.

LONDON (AFP) - British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced Tuesday that it will distribute Apple's iPhone in 10 new countries including Australia, India and South Africa.