NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter. Google's Andy Rubin, the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, turning up the heat on Apple Inc's iPad. Global handset vendors and PC makers including Nokia, LG Electronics and Hewlett-Packard Co are moving into the new category of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shares in Netflix Inc neared their all-time high on Thursday, after Apple Inc said that the company's streaming video service would be added to a new version of Apple TV. The tie-in with Apple TV, a smaller, cheaper version of Apple's earlier web-to-TV product, could cement ...

Prepaid services have become more popular in the last few years among consumers looking to avoid the long-term contract commitments that come with postpaid contracts. The move by U.S. mobile market leader Verizon Wireless follows an announcement earlier this summer that Leap, a prepaid specialist, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion, as rival Dell Inc bowed out on Thursday. HP raised its cash offer by $3 to $33 per share, beating Dell's $32-a-share offer and ending an escalation of bids that many analysts said had ...

The company expects sales of 3D televisions to generate 15-20 percent of its revenue in Europe this year, Laurent Abadie told Reuters in an interview ahead of the start of consumer electronics trade show IFA in Berlin. Panasonic is the world's fourth-largest flat TV maker behind Samsung ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Critics hoping for more from Apple Inc's Web-to-TV plans -- a device, say, that would revolutionize living room entertainment the way the iPad changed tablet computing -- may just need to wait a bit longer. Shortly after Apple unveiled its latest Apple TV product on ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc introduced a new version of Apple TV on Wednesday with shows from just two networks, underscoring its struggles to win over a media industry worried about losing control over the pricing of its programs. The new $99 Apple TV will allow users to rent TV shows such as ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL Inc said on Thursday it has renewed a search agreement with Google Inc, further cementing a decade-long partnership as AOL tries to turn around its business. The new five-year deal, effective immediately, includes a revenue share on a per-search basis. Additional financial ...

The Federal Communications Commission has been prodding phone, cable and Internet companies for months to find consensus on the thorny issue of net neutrality -- a debate over whether high-speed Internet providers should be allowed to give preferential treatment to content providers who pay for ...