Stories by: John Blau

Reorganization reflects the growing importance of Nokia's multimedia and Internet-enabled devices businesses.

Consumers planning to buy the iPhone when it goes on sale in the U.S. later this month will need to have an iTunes Store account before they can activate the device, according to information on Apple's Web site.

U.S. soldiers in South Korea face a tough call on using Internet telephony in the country.

Hackers may want to avoid Germany, after the approval of a law that makes their activity a punishable crime.

Users of Google Calendar can now access their schedules from their mobile phones.

Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance application and begun testing an on-demand market information service, the company announced Tuesday at customer event in Berlin.

Efforts to curb software piracy in China are bearing fruit although the piracy rate remains high, costing vendors billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a survey paid for by large vendors, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

The race to define and build next-generation broadband wireless networks is in full swing. And though Qualcomm doesn't like to use the 4G (fourth-generation) term, the company -- a key supplier of chip technology for today's 3G (third-generation) networks -- is already moving to stake its claim in the emerging market for super-fast wireless services.

Ubuntu Linux developers plan to extend its open-source software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices.

Reports that Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks over a possible acquisition or merger have come as anything but a surprise to analysts who question not if, but when, a deal will happen.

Several mobile phone operators and equipment manufacturers have teamed to test high-speed LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile phone technology in a race to dominate next-generation wireless networks.