Stories by: Nancy Gohring

Despite expecting to meet revenue estimates for its fourth quarter, EMC said on Wednesday that it is instituting a restructuring program that includes laying off 2,400 people.

After selling them for just a few months, Nokia has decided to stop making its N810 WiMax Edition handheld computer.

Microsoft has discontinued negotiations over leasing a new office building in Seattle due to the deteriorating economic situation, it said.

Salesforce.com was down for under an hour on Tuesday, leaving many users in the dark.

An arm of the US Treasury Department has approved Advanced Micro Devices' plan to create a new foundry company with major investment from the government of Abu Dhabi.

Palm launched an online store where users can buy software directly from their handsets, becoming the latest phone maker to follow in Apple's footsteps with an application store.

Just two years ago, the mobile phone market was pretty ho-hum. You had your candy bar phones and your flip phones. There were BlackBerry devices and Windows Mobile phones. Those phones had calendars and contact lists, and a few other apps that were too annoying to use. Few people ever added any new applications to their phones. Surfing the Web was for emergency use only, since it was slow and ugly.

They're back: rumours of an impending Zune phone announcement from Microsoft, this time probably at CES.

Microsoft's Live Labs on Wednesday introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others.

Fourteen new companies including Sony Ericsson have joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group backing Google's Android mobile operating system. The total number of companies in the alliance now totals 47.

Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites.