LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - It’s the first time songs performed on “American Idol” have been made available for immediate download on iTunes — and the audience’s ability to make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely for winner David Cook.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp
said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and
asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does
not infringe a TiVo patent.
PARIS (Reuters) - A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace rocket launch company said on Friday.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European wireless carriers have sharply raised prices for making and receiving calls outside the European Union to compensate for regulator-imposed lower tariffs within the EU, a market research firm said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dell Inc , the world’s No. 2 personal computer maker, said on Friday sales outside the United States were growing much faster than its home market and could account for two-thirds of total revenues within five years.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer has been trained to “read” people’s minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.