Electronics

U.S. telephone giant AT&T Inc. risks losing customers to cable rivals unless it builds a fiber network closer to customers than currently planned for its video and Internet services, analysts said.

Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. on Tuesday priced an initial public offering worth about $531 million, according to an underwriter.

At the biggest video game show of the year, Sony, which has dominated the console market with its PlayStation 2, must show gamers reason to wait six more months for its PS3, even though Microsoft's next-generation Xbox 360 already sits temptingly on stores shelves.

Microsoft Corp.on Thursday said it struck a deal to enable its Windows Mobile operating system to work with Qualcomm Inc.'s mobile phone chips, a move seen helping it gain more headway in the wireless business.

The Nikkei average fell 1.29 percent on Friday as shares of Sony Corp. tumbled after it forecast a sharp profit decline in the current year and as a stronger yen raised concern of a drop in earnings at exporters such as Kyocera Corp.

Sony Corp. (6758.T) posted a 68 percent rise in annual operating profit on Thursday on investment gains and robust sales of flat TVs, but forecast a sharp fall this year because of start-up costs for PlayStation 3 (PS3).

A special 13-judge court opens high-stakes hearings on Monday, deciding if it should curtail the European Commission's role as an antitrust watchdog or endorse forcing Microsoft to change its business practices.