Google is opening the gates to its long-awaited Google Voice phone management service this week. Here are some things to consider as you decide whether the service is right for you. After weeks of anticipation, Google is finally accepting a limited number of new users into its Google Voice phone system....

Apple on Friday upped its stake in U.K. chip company, Imagination Technologies. The company purchased 2.2 million shares at 1.43 British pounds ($2.36), for a total cost of 3.14 million pounds ($5.19 million). The purchase brings Apple’s stake in the company to 9.5 percent, effectively tripling its...

IBM on Friday was denied an injunction that would have kept its former acquisitions chief from taking a job at Dell, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. IBM sued David Johnson out of concern that working at Dell would cause him to divulge IBM trade secrets. Johnson worked for 27 years at IBM,...

Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news? It happens time and time again: when news breaks, the Internet slows. It’s quite obvious at this point that the Internet has muscled its way into the lives of anyone who needs information. And Michael Jackson’s death Thursday had as great an...

POTENTIAL customers hoping to check out the new iPhone 3GS have been turned away from Apple’s flagship Sydney store unless they promise to buy one. Staff met customers as they reached the doors of the store today and said it was only open to people who were going to purchase an iPhone. “The...