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Regulators take step toward broadband rules
World- Communications authorities on Thursday took a small but significant step toward regulating high-speed Internet in a bid to reclaim oversight, setting the stage for an eventual legal showdown with industry heavyweights.
Tablets to outsell netbooks in U.S. by 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - Tablets including Apple's iPad are expected to outsell netbooks in the United States by 2012, research firm Forrester predicted in a report released on Thursday.
By 2014, more U.S. consumers will use tablets than use netbooks, or mini-notebooks, Forrester said in the report that outlined the trends in U.S. consumer personal computer (PC) market in the next five years.
Chinese experts blast Google for "politicizing" trade rules
BEIJING - Chinese trade and Internet experts have criticized Google's move to declare China's Internet restrictions a trade barrier, saying it was another move by Google to politicize itself.
Despite ending censorship of its Chinese-language search engine, Google.cn, and redirecting Chinese mainland users to a site in Hong Kong, Google was launching a new move to challenge China's Internet regulation, experts said.
Dutch Layar signs global augmented reality deals
Holland - Netherlands-based Layar, a provider of augmented reality software, signed deals to be distributed on a third of smartphones worldwide and predicted a boost in the use of its technology, which combines real-world images with computer-generated images on a screen.
Layar expects "tens of millions of users" of its technology this year, the company told visitors to an event in one of Amsterdam's historic canalside houses on Friday celebrating its first anniversary.
Cuba reports little Internet and telecom progress
Cuba - Cubans' ability to communicate with one another and the world remained well below the norm for the Caribbean and Latin America in 2009, according to a government report released this week.
Despite the legalization of mobile phones in 2008 there were just 1.8 million phone lines in the country, or 15.5 lines for every 100 inhabitants, which was the lowest in the region, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.
Some 800,000 of the phones were mobiles.
Motorola and Sprint to sell Windows phone to businesses
World - Motorola Inc (MOT.N) said on Thursday that it would launch a new phone based on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) software and that No. 3 U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) will sell the phone to corporate customers.
While Motorola uses Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android software for its consumer cellphones, it is sticking with Microsoft's technology for devices aimed at business customers.
AOL to sell social network site Bebo
US - AOL Inc will sell its Bebo social network site to private investment firm Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum, as it tries to restructure its business and deal with declining revenue.
iPhone 4 sets record sale pace despite gaffe
California - Sales of Apple Inc's latest iPhone blew away expectations in its first day on the market despite shortages and an embarrassing online ordering glitch that thwarted many shoppers.
Russia to fence kids off Internet
MOSCOW - Russian children below 10 years old must be denied Internet access and should surf the web only under adults' supervision, Russian minister for telecommunications Igor Shchegolev said on Thursday.
The minister, who attended the conference "Safe tomorrow of RuNet" held in the town of Urupinsk, said that the idea to limit the Internet access for the minors belonged to the users of RuNet, or the Russian-language sector of the global Web.
Nintendo sees life yet in the Wii
Tokyo - Nintendo Co Ltd, confident that its Wii will stand up against rivals Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp, says it feels no pressure to reinvent the pioneering motion-sensing games platform.
President Satoru Iwata said that despite decelerating sales growth, there is life yet in the Wii and that updates of popular games like Metroid, Donkey Kong and Wii Party will keep it moving off store shelves.