Wall Street Journal - Technology

Comverse Technology is likely to pursue a sale of its subsidiary Verint Systems in a deal that could fetch $2 billion.

A court heard the sequel to one of the Web's most storied legal quarrels: whether Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for the influential social-networking site.

Verizon Wireless will start selling Apple's iPhone 4 early next month, ending AT&T's exclusive hold over the blockbuster smartphone and shaking up the industry.

Social-networking website MySpace cut nearly half its workforce--about 500 employees--as part of a major restructuring aimed at reviving its business after being eclipsed by Facebook.

A tech cleanse means you unplug for a short time with longer-term benefits. But it isn't easy.

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, South Korea’s top two consumer electronics makers, said that their home appliance divisions are expected to report brisk sales over the next few years, driven by demand for premium and environmentally friendly products.

AMD forced out CEO Dirk Meyer, just as the long-struggling chip maker appeared to be gaining momentum in its turnaround.

Verizon Wireless is finally getting Apple’s popular iPhone. The wireless carrier is holding an event in New York Tuesday to announce the news.

The Daily, a digital newspaper for the iPad, is expected to be unveiled Jan. 19 by News Corp. and Apple.

Groupon said it has expanded to India, Israel and South Africa by acquiring fellow online-coupon discount sites in those countries.

iGate plans to raise between $500 million and $700 million through a dollar-denominated bond to refinance the bulk of a bridge loan taken to acquire India's Patni Computer Systems.

Research In Motion said it hasn't received any request from the Indian government or its agencies to filter Internet-accessed content on its BlackBerry smart phones.

The president of Nintendo acknowledged that the company's recent warning against young children playing its new hand-held 3-D game machine could hurt its sales, but said the 3DS isn't a "dangerous" product.

Robert Muglia, the president of Microsoft's server and tools business, will leave the company this summer after CEO Steve Ballmer decided to seek a new leader for the unit.

Verizon Wireless is confident enough in its network that it will offer unlimited data-use plans when it starts selling the iPhone around the end of this month.

Research In Motion said it will filter Web content on BlackBerrys in Indonesia to comply with a government demand to block sites containing pornography.

Intel agreed to pay Nvidia $1.5 billion over five years to settle litigation between the two companies, as part of a patent-licensing deal that rewards Nvidia for its technology but gives the smaller company no rights to Intel's technical crown jewels.

To mark the institute's sesquicentennial, MIT Museum has assembled 150 objects that encapsulate the work and culture of the school.

Long-rumored layoffs at News Corp.'s Myspace social-networking site will be announced Tuesday. More than 500 jobs are expected to be cut.

Walt Disney is discussing making video from some of its networks available on sets embedded with Yahoo's Internet-TV software.