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Market-leading phone maker Nokia moved to bolster its mobile advertising front today by agreeing to acquire Boston-based Enpocket for an undisclosed sum. Enpocket makes a mobile advertising campaign management and delivery system that uses analytics...

Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter,...

A British team of chip designers has won one of the most coveted of customers in the chip industry--Apple Computer. SiliconValleyWatcher has learned that Apple has contracted to use the powerful video, image, and music...

The Washington Post Co. announced Tuesday that it has agreed to purchase online magazine Slate from Microsoft. In a deal that had been rumored since at least mid-November, the Post will take...

Although its experiment with the Catwoman license didn't go so well, Electronic Arts is undeterred in its pursuit of a comic-to-movie-to-game hit. It should fare a bit better with Batman Begins -- the publishing giant...

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales...

Reuters is reporting that Nintendo has bought 2.6 percent of Japan's largest toymaker. The transaction of 1.28 million shares comes after a Bandai shareholder approached Nintendo and asked if they would like to acquire the...

A European Commission working paper on linking national government IT systems across Europe is recommending open source software. The paper, Linking up Europe: the Importance of Interoperability for E-government Services, stressed that the planned...

Saw this over at ActiveWin and thought it might make a nice discussion. Dell Computer Corp. is preparing to sell PCs with Microsoft Corp.'s operating system in a mode that will provide more...

One of the industry's more off-again, on-again projects has officially reclaimed its on-again status... again. Star Trek: Shattered Universe for PlayStation 2 has been picked up for publication by TDK Mediactive. As you may know,...

Microsoft has lined up another partner for its .Net technology, with CMGI's uBid auction network agreeing to use the software giant's Passport authentication service and other Internet services. uBid will become the "premier...