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While the company is not confirming details, a media report says their new endeavor will be an open platform with an attached retail store.

Motorola, Inc. (MOT) said it has reduced the time frame for its plan to separate handset and cable set-top box businesses Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. from the company to January next year.

After Google announced plans to launch Google Editions in 2009, the much-awaited but delayed buy anywhere read anywhere digital book distribution channel is to hit the market by the end of December.

Cyber Monday sales were up, with mobile shoppers making a significant showing for the first time.

As US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to give Microsoft a hearing related to a 2009 court order that required it to pay $290 million to i4i for patent infringement related to its high-profile product Microsoft Word, Microsoft itself has been on a buying spree collecting patents that cover a range of its products.

Technology research firm Gartner said personal computer sales worldwide were on track to set a new record in 2010 but Apple’s iPad is taking a bite out of the sector.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: BSD Medical, ASML Holding, Aixtron, A123 Systems, Vodafone Group, Mellanox Technologies, Ryanair Holdings, Micron Technology, and Alvarion.

A new survey shows shoppers are aware of security issues, but keep shopping online anyway.

Over 106 million Americans plan to shop on Cyber Monday, the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season, up significantly from the estimated 96.5 million who shopped last year, a survey showed.

Microsoft announced its gains in mindshare with 15,000 developers building apps for its recently launched Windows Phone 7.

In a ceremony held at the prestigious Ecole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne in Switzerland on October 11, watch-brand Rolex awarded five young entrepreneurs, aged between 18 and 30 years, the first Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme.

Apple's walled-garden approach has a new victim, radio station apps, as Apple fenced out single station radio apps from its App Store.

Apple iPad has topped the electronic gadget wish list of kids aged 6-12, beating probables like Nintendo and Sony PlayStation game consoles.

Scientists in the United States have developed tiny, low-temperature methane fuel cells that could soon power laptops.

Despite the tablet market getting crowded by each day, the demand for iPad continues to surge and could see rush orders as early as next week.

In the midst of bankruptcy, TerreStar has unveiled its new handset.

Sales of the BlackBerry’s latest Torch 9800, which were initially hit by its high price, have zoomed in the US market after its prices were slashed by half earlier this month.

Internet search engine Google has played down its rivalry with social networking site Facebook, but said social media was part of its strategy and would be embedded in many of its products.

Several reports indicate Groupon and Google might soon be one.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, on Thursday predicted Google’s smartphone operating system Android will beat the iPhone operating system in both quantity and quality.

Credit Suisse upgraded chip maker Qualcomm to outperform from neutral and raised profit estimates of the company, citing improved visibility on earnings growth.