Amazon.com plans to acquire Quidsi, the operator of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for US$500 million in cash to expand into baby care products and goods for everyday needs.

Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten has asked Japan's Fair Trade Commission to examine an Internet search deal between Yahoo Japan and Google, it said Wednesday.

Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7 OS for handheld devices on Monday, taking a step forward in the company's efforts to strengthen its position in the still-growing smartphone market. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the first phones to run the OS, and named the network operators that will distribute them.

Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites.

Network operator TeliaSonera plans to start shipping the world's first dual-mode modem for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and 3G mobile networks on Wednesday.

Operators hope unity and openness will help them compete with proprietary stores such as Apple's or the Android market.

A fogyasztók biztonsága érdekében az NHH előírta, hogy alapbeállításként az emeltdíjas fogadott SMS szolgáltatás ne legyen igénybe vehető, csak ha a telefontulajdonos azt kifejezetten kéri az operátornál. A fogadott emeltdíjas SMS-ekre eddig az erre szakosodott tartalomszolgáltatóknál lehetett előfizetni, azonban a szolgáltatás igénybevételének feltételei sok esetben tisztázatlanok voltak.

Suspect initially claimed that his company and clients were victims of another's actions.

Mobile operator TeliaSonera has launched the world's first commercial LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo, it said on Monday.

China Unicom plans to offer five versions of Apple's iPhone through an array of 2-year service plans when the operator puts the smartphones on sale next month.

Apple's iPhone 3G smartphone will go on sale in China in October, operator China Unicom said on Monday.

The Hungarian mobile operator today announced that its board of directors has appointed Anders Jensen as the company's new CEO. He will succeed Ove Fredheim from April 1st 2009.

Imagine asking mobile operators to compete in an auction for the chance to offer you service and then switching from one operator to the next multiple times a day to get the best rate or more bandwidth.

Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down from the top job at the mobile operator in July, the company said Tuesday.

A Magyar Telekom új call centerében 270 operátor szolgálja majd ki a cég partnereit - közölte az MT lakossági ügyfélszolgálati igazgatója.

The European Union's antitrust regulator has fined telecommunications operator Telefónica SA ?152 million (US$207 million) for overcharging its competitors for wholesale access to broadband services in Spain. But competing operators say the fine is still not enough to ensure fair competition in Europe's telecommunications markets.

Fujitsu Ltd. has beaten out four other bidders to win the contract to build the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.'s next-generation trading system, the market operator said Tuesday.

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group.

A T-Mobile mobil szélessávú hálózatának előnyeit már a HTC az operátornál T-mobile Vario II néven elérhető modelljével is igénybe vehetjük.

Tokyo taxi passengers will soon be able to start paying for their rides using electronic money, three taxi fleet operators said this week.