The iPhone's reach is expanding. Orange, France Telecom's flagship brand, announced that it will sell Apple's phone in additional countries in Europe, as well as the Middle East and Africa.Orange said it will sell the iPhone in Austria, Belgium, the

If you thought the trend toward openness among social networks was going to be sociable, the scuffle between Google and Facebook may indicate otherwise.On Thursday, Facebook's Charlie Cheever wrote on the company's blog for developers that the company was suspending

Yahoo is fighting back against Carl Icahn. Saying Yahoo's current board, led by CEO Jerry Yang, "completely botched" negotiations with Microsoft, the infamous corporate raider on Thursday filed an alternative slate of directors to run the company. Yahoo shareholders will

New legislation prohibiting drivers from talking while behind the wheel, combined with a demand for more fashionable and advanced devices and more sophisticated phones, is driving Bluetooth headset makers to innovate. The latest addition to the wireless world is Aliph's

The .ME Registry, the official registry operator for Montenegro's new .ME domain name, has selected global auditor Deloitte to provide auditing services during its pre-registration 'Sunrise' phase.

Last year, in the first file-sharing lawsuit ever to go to trial, Jammie Thomas was found liable for sharing two dozen songs -- and the judge ordered her to pay $222,000 to Capitol Records. Now, that judge has admitted that

The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft have come together to make the software company's Windows XP operating system available on the OLPC's low-cost laptops, the XO. Sugar, a Linux-based user interface, will also be offered on XO computers.

Due out sometime this fall, Konami's Rock Revolution is yet another game to ad to the increasing list of rhythm based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Rock Revolution will be the most innovative and realistic rock game to

Google and Facebook have been at each other's throats in recent days over Friend Connect, Google's platform for mirroring your social networking data around the Web. Apparently, Facebook doesn't like the fact that Friend Connect does exactly what it's designed

The drought in short: first, there is one; it will get worse; it won't be a terrible disaster; it will be very uncomfortable in certain ways and for some people, though; and the prospects for the future are alarming but

Tomorrow, Northeast Ohio marks River Day. The 18th annual event includes cleanups, hikes and bike rides celebrating the Cuyahoga River. A major project completed two years ago in Akron works behind the scenes to help keep the river clean year-round.

Cuyahoga County Commissioners say it will be next week before they name an interim recorder to replace Patrick O'Malley, who resigned yesterday. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports.

Every year your faithful steed stands perfectly still while his or her portrait is carefully drawn. A whorl here, a sock there. The blood sample and the portrait are then whisked off to the state laboratory. A few weeks later

In late April, First Data Corp. announced the acquisition of InComm, a marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored value gift and prepaid products. At the time, specific terms weren't announced. Yesterday, First Data filed a 10-Q with the SEC

that's the title of the special report in this week's issue of the Economist. "This special report will ask how banks should be run and regulated so that the next time boom turns to bust the outcome will be less

Mobilians International has announced commercial availability of its phone-based payment service on NHN USA's ijji.com online gaming website. With Mobilians' PhoneBill service, NHN USA's customers now can purchase ijji.com "G-Coins" in multiple increments by charging them to their home phone

In an article titled Rising Credit Card Interchange Fees Equal Double Punch at Pumps, Convenience Store News reports on yesterday's testimony at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on interchange fees. "Last year, convenience stores paid $7.6 billion in credit card

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MSN India reports on mobile wallets and payments in India saying that "current payment players in India are mChek, Obopay and PayMate." The article notes that the Reserve Bank of India is currently formulating the regulatory guidelines for mobile payments

Metavante Technologies Ltd. has announced that it has been granted Payment Application Best Practice (PABP) certification from Visa Europe for both card issuing and transaction acquiring. Metavante Technologies Ltd., a provider of prepaid and debit card processing and licensed software