Reuters -

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Internet-based calling company Vonage Holdings Corp said it has agreed to settle a patent dispute with Nortel Networks with no payment of damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent. The settlement would put to rest the last of the major litigation against Vonage after it settled suits brought by AT&T, Verizon […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)—Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday. Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard Co discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said in an e-mail. She added that it […]

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter)—About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche. The findings of the online survey of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Videos by a self-styled Obama Girl, a fans tearful defense of Britney Spears and an attack by a herd of buffaloes on a pride of lions, were among the most popular clips on YouTube.com in 2007. But the videos were not just popular because of the millions of times they were seen on […]

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Apple Inc and News Corp.s Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent movies through Apples digital iTunes Store, media reports said on Thursday. The agreement will allow rentals of Foxs latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from the online iTunes store for a limited […]

HELSINKI (Reuters)—Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing, a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the Internet services ambitions of the worlds top cellphone maker. The gaming service, together with a music shop and mapping services, is one of the cornerstones […]

NEW YORK—Anyone with dreams of being a talk radio star—ranting about sports and politics, chatting with callers, sharing recipes or car-buying tips—can play host on their own show, right on the Web. BlogTalkRadio, Talkshoe and Skypecasts are among the Web sites that have become popular for would-be radio jocks, and all it takes is a […]

SANTIAGO (Reuters)—Chile has postponed until March its decision about which digital television standard it will adopt—Japanese, European or American, government spokesman Francisco Vidal said on Monday. “The president (Michelle Bachelet) has requested more studies, of a technical nature, in order not to err in our decision,” Vidal told reporters. “The decision on digital television, which […]

MOSCOW (Reuters)—Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival Americas GPS. The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009, once all its 24 navigational satellites are operating. A space rocket […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters)—A federal appeals court handed Google Inc a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday, tossing out part of a summary judgment in the Web search engines favor in a lawsuit filed by Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC. Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC and Hyperphrase Inc had filed suit in Wisconsin saying that Google infringed on four patents […]