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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company and Sweden's LM Ericsson have concluded a cross-licensing agreement on patents in wireless communications technology. The agreement allows the two companies to use each other's patents covering second-generation and third-generation...

Avoiding Congressional intervention, Level 3 and Cogent announced on Friday that they have reached an agreement that will keep internet traffic flowing smoothly between their customers. Earlier this month Level 3 disrupted service to Cogent...

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced that it has selected the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) as its protection scheme for next generation DVD media. The anti-piracy measures include a watermarking and digital...

Japan's Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are close to finalizing a plan to develop a common standard for next-generation DVDs to resolve a three-year-long battle over formats that threatened the industry's growth, a Japanese newspaper...

Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. today announced an agreement to collaborate on long-term digital media initiatives that will accelerate the adoption of digital content, and to settle the pending litigation between their companies....

Thanks Charles for this one. Rumors of the Xbox's shaky stability have been greatly exaggerated. Here at the Xbox Unleashed show, a two-day promotional event for the forthcoming Xbox, gamers have been running...

The computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are planning a $25bn (£17.2bn) merger. The deal would create a company of a size to rival industry giant IBM, which is currently worth $90bn. Even...