- Fri Nov 20 12:51 PM PST 2009 Sony planning new online store
Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices.
- Thu Nov 19 9:00 AM PST 2009 More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up
Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, the start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts. (But do they all pay?)
- Tue Nov 17 1:28 PM PST 2009 O'Reilly: The Web is at war, and it's making me sad
In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the punditocracy by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again. Did it ever cool off?
- Tue Nov 17 12:12 PM PST 2009 Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam
An investigation by a Senate subcommittee says millions of Americans were "tricked" into signing up for online membership clubs and were betrayed by many Web retailers.
- Mon Nov 16 2:50 PM PST 2009 Senate to disclose findings in Web 'mystery charge' probe
Numerous shoppers have traced mystery credit card charges to Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue. Congress will reveal the results at a hearing Tuesday.
- Mon Nov 16 1:37 PM PST 2009 Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.
- Mon Nov 16 11:35 AM PST 2009 Two cheers for Google Books
Friday's settlement offers an awkward resolution on "orphan works." The real problem, says lawyer Larry Downes, is the sad state of copyright law.
- Mon Nov 16 10:03 AM PST 2009 eBay Motors founder starts new e-commerce site
Glyde attempts to make it easier for users to buy and sell used goods. It might be difficult for the new site to compete against eBay.
- Wed Nov 11 10:22 AM PST 2009 Holiday shoppers going social, mobile
Consumers plan to increasingly use social media and cell phones to help them find the right gifts for the holidays, a Deloitte survey shows.
- Tue Nov 10 8:43 AM PST 2009 Amazon debuts Kindle for PC
New software offering lets people read Kindle e-books on their Windows computers. A version for the Mac is in the works.



