Many people who lined up to be the first buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone made good on promises to try to flip the gadgets online at inflated prices, but a quick buck appeared out of reach for many.

A Microsoft attorney says the company has learned how to deal with antitrust regulators and that Google could glean a thing or two from the experience.

Nokia is headed towards 40 percent global market share and Apple's iPhone won't make a dent in that, according to a US distributor of mobiles and other wireless devices.

Microsoft has launched another low-cost PC effort in India, this time partnering with chipmaker AMD in an effort to get more computers into the hands of students.

Microsoft said on Monday that it expects rival Google to file a complaint with a federal judge arguing that changes Microsoft has agreed to make to its Windows Vista operating system fall short of addressing concerns that its computer search function puts Google and other potential competitors at a disadvantage.

Google plans to spend $600m (£300m) to build a data centre in western Iowa, the latest site in a massive network of server farms holding the hundreds of thousands of computers that run its web services. Construction on the new data centre in Council Bluffs — which Google called a busy crossroads of internet activity — has started and Google plans to start operations by spring of 2009.

Nokia has access to a huge salesforce in emerging markets that no other operator can match, analyst says.

Ziff Davis Media announced Thursday plans to sell its enterprise group for approximately $150 million in cash to a New York-based private equity and venture capital firm.

Google has acquired Zenter, a small company that makes software for creating online slideshows.

The world's number-one mobile-phone maker, Nokia, announced a reorganisation on Wednesday.

Google has committed to becoming more environmentally friendly and has enlisted the help of a green group to meet its target.

Eric Jackson, a Yahoo shareholder, dreamed of influencing companies in the same way as billionaire financier Carl Icahn.

Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job.

Microsoft has agreed to buy 0.8 percent of Sichuan Changhong Electric Co to help to develop technology that can connect computers and televisions to the internet, according to the Chinese company.

Verizon Communications said it plans to offer high-definition video on demand over its advanced internet and video service called FiOS, although it has not yet set a date.

Samsung's $3.5 billion memory chip factory is the largest such plant in Texas.

Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Friday said a complaint lodged by Google was "baseless", as the software company was complying with a 2002 antitrust settlement.

Rival's allegations of more antitrust activity is 'baseless,' Ballmer says.

Two leading academic journals have said they will not accept manuscripts written in Microsoft's Office 2007 suite.

The number of security flaws within financial institutions' IT systems is growing fast, due in part to customer demand for internet services.

Yahoo shareholders criticised a defensive and slightly combative chief executive Terry Semel for the company's lagging performance after the annual stockholder meeting Tuesday.

Microsoft won a round in its battle with patent licensing company Timeline.

The PC power chain has to got to get in shape, according to a group of technology companies.

Google's attitude towards privacy has been criticised by campaigners who are warning of a "race to the bottom" in corporate surveillance of customers.

Google's claims that Microsof's Vista desktop search violates its antitrust agreement could be difficult to prove.

Several business groups oppose 'cyber trespass' legislation that passed the House this week.

Microsoft and South Korea's LG Electronics said on Thursday they have agreed a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their highest value in more than a year.

Although there have been a raft of deals of private equity firms buying out public tech companies, Palm's recent deal with Elevation Partners is breaking new ground.

BEIJING--Forget Silicon Valley--if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China.

France's top soccer league and its national tennis organization are the latest to join legal action against video-sharing site YouTube.

Palm is selling a 25 percent stake to private-equity firm Elevation Partners for $325 million and is bringing in Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod division at Apple, as executive chairman of the board.

Internet services are expected to team up against Microsoft in a Tuesday announcement.

Google acquires FeedBurner, a provider of publishing and advertising services for blogs and content syndication feed.

Google just accelerated its rivalry with Microsoft, although Google executives still deny there is a competition over who will dominate in an increasingly web-based computing world.

BEIJING--Every American company wants to expand into China, but so far none that has is doing that well. Baidu, the Chinese search engine, has a huge lead over Google. Amazon bought a growing local online bookseller to get its business going, but customer service and other issues caused sales to slow.

Millions of people use Google's Web services every day. Now the search giant wants to actively recruit the geek elite of software programmers.

ARLSBAD, Calif.--In Bill Gates' mind, Microsoft's tabletop computer is just the beginning of where the touch-based technology can go.