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Digital deal nudging music into living rooms

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For Real Networks' Rhapsody digital music service, there's no place like home. The company has teamed with TiVo to bring subscription-based on-demand streaming music into the living room directly from Internet-connected TiVo digital video recorders.

Stocks rally on Oracle bid, solid retail spending

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Stocks rose on Friday, led by technology shares after a surprise takeover proposal in the software sector, data pointing to strength in consumer spending and a brighter outlook from McDonald's Corp.
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Nasdaq leads market's drop on Baidu.com note

Stocks sank on Thursday, led by a drop of more than 1 percent in the Nasdaq, as a downbeat brokerage comment on Chinese Internet company Baidu.com Inc. unnerved investors after record highs earlier in the day.
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Sony to launch world's first OLED ultra-thin TV

Sony Corp said it will launch an ultra-thin flat TV in December, the world's first television based on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology into an $82 billion market dominated by LCD and plasma models.
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Amazon Launches iTune Rival

Amazon.com Inc launched an early version of its highly anticipated digital music download store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc's dominant iTunes system.
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Apple iPhone Storms Europe

Apple Inc. will start selling its popular iPhone smart-phone in the U.K with the Spanish-owned service provider O2, bringing the firm's highly-coveted device to Europe for the first time.
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Apple's iPhone can only help rivals in Europe

Major handset vendors have much more to gain than to lose from the buzz Apple Inc's coveted iPhone will create when it arrives in European stores for the key shopping season ahead of Christmas.
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O2 agreed UK revenue sharing deal for iPhone

Spanish-owned mobile phone operator O2 secured a deal to sell the iPhone in Britain after agreeing to give Apple 40 percent of the revenues it will make from customers using the device, the Guardian said.
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Bond's car voted coolest brand

A fast car with a James Bond image held onto its place atop a list of the coolest brands in Britain in a newly released survey on Thursday.
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iPhone headed for Germany: source

Deutsche Telekom has clinched an exclusive deal with Apple Inc to sell the coveted iPhone in Germany, an industry source told Reuters.
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Apple calls on UK press as iPhone talk swirls

Apple Inc is calling a London news conference next Tuesday as speculation mounts that the consumer electronics guru will unveil long-awaited plans to bring its iconic iPhone cell phones to Europe.
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Apple slashes iPhone price

Apple Inc on Wednesday said the company was cutting the price of its iPhone and was on track to sell one million phones before the end of September.
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New iPods to help Apple counter rivals

Apple Inc is expected to unveil new iPods this week, injecting fresh excitement into the product line at a time when defections by partners have shown cracks in its digital music dominance.
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The Simpler Life

TVs usually dominate Europe's largest consumer electronics show but many gadgets in Berlin this week aim to make life simple and more beautiful too.
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Navigation makers vie to stand out in a crowd

Manufacturers of satellite navigation devices are loading up their gadgets with features from audio sightseeing guides to three-dimensional city views as they seek to differentiate themselves in a crowded market.
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NBC Universal ends contract with iTunes

NBC Universal has decided not to renew its contract to sell television shows on iTunes, becoming the second major media company to challenge Apple Inc's dominance in digital entertainment.
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Credit concerns drive Wall Street lower

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday on mounting concerns that credit market upheaval will erode bank profits and hold back consumer spending, but optimism about corporate investment helped lift technology shares.
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Apple seen revamping iPod line

Apple Inc shares rose more than 5 percent on Wednesday on growing expectations that the company will announce a revamped line of iPods next week. The new units may have a large touch screen similar to the iPhone.
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Sony introduces first U.S. video Walkman player

Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp. on Thursday said it introduced a new U.S. version of its Sony Walkman that includes the ability to play digital video, the latest potential rival to Apple Inc.'s dominant iPod media player.

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