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Net Applications' browser market report for October continues to track Internet Explorer's steady decline, from 60.99 percent in October 2010 to 53.39 percent in September 2011 to 52.63 percent in October 2011 ...

Research In Motion is launching a music app for BlackBerry users that it hopes will spread via its incentives for users to share songs by BlackBerry Messenger ...

Google is rolling out a revamped Gmail, as it indicated it would earlier this year. Users can opt to use the new look immediately by clicking on the switch icon on the bottom-right corner of the Gmail page ...

Bank of America has decided to back off from a controversial fee that it announced in September: a US$5 ding every month for consumers who use their debit cards to make a retail purchase. The plan had endured sustained consumer outrage since it was publicly revealed ...

Yahoo may have shelved the prospect of a company sale, or at the very least pushed the idea to its back burner. Instead, it is reportedly giving serious thought to selling its Asian assets and redistributing the proceeds to shareholders via a special dividend or buyback shares, according to a Bloomberg article citing unidentified sources. ...

Barnes & Noble has sent out invitations to a press conference this week in New York City. The specific topic of the event, set for Nov. 7, is unclear -- but it's almost certain the spotlight will be on its Nook ...

The Federal Communications Commission has voted unanimously to reform the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation system. It is creating a new Connect America Fund, with a budget of US$4.5 billion to meet the end-goal of this policy shift: extending broadband infrastructure to rural Americans, as opposed to subsidizing rural phone service.

Google has made a slew of updates to its Google+ social network. It has added new features, provided integration with Google Apps, and made the network available to businesses, universities, and schools that use Google Apps ...

Salesforce.com has a developed a new tool for companies to help them develop and publish Web pages and landing pages specifically for marketing campaigns. ...

Research In Motion has not heard the last of the days-long outage of its network earlier this month. Lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed against the company in both the United States and Canada, seeking damages for the loss of service. ...

Sprint delivered third quarter earnings with a relatively nice surprise -- its losses were less than expected. Any good feeling from its numbers, however, was short-lived as Sprint went on to remind shareholders that it would be seeking capital -- as much as US$7 billion -- to fund new handsets and a network upgrade. ...

IBM debuted industry-specific data analytics tools for the healthcare and communication sectors at its Information on Demand conference. These packages are part of IBM's drive to help companies manage their information processes and data storage needs as efficiently as possible. ...

Android has become the platform for mobile advertisers to target, it would seem, based on separate reports from ABI Research and Millennial Media. ...

Research In Motion has been hit with a lawsuit alleging trademark infringement of the name "BBX." This latest thorn in the company's side follows a mortifying days-long global service outage and lackluster performance of its PlayBook tablet, to name just two recent setbacks ...

Microsoft is rolling out a service update for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for both the partner-hosted and on-premises deployments. ...

The ire exhibited by consumers in the wake of Bank of America's recent announcement that it would impose a US$5 monthly fee for using debit cards for retail purchases does not seem to have been a momentary flash -- at least, not based on findings in a survey by Trig (The Research Intelligence Group). ...

Oracle has scooped up RightNow Technologies, a cloud-based customer self-service application vendor, for a reported US$1.5 billion. The acquisition price is a hefty 20 percent premium over RightNow's closing price last week. ...

Sprint Nextel notified subscribers late last week that it was doing away with its unlimited 4G wireless broadband for tablets, netbooks, notebooks, USB cards and mobile hotspot devices -- almost every mobile device, that is, except smartphones, which it has famously promised to allow to consume unlimited data. ...

Verizon delivered excellent news to its shareholders on Friday: Third-quarter earnings rose to US$1.38 billion from $659 million a year earlier. A jump in subscribers -- it signed on 882,000 new wireless customers for the quarter -- and smartphone sales led to the doubling in profits. ...

The New York Times Co. reported a profit of US$15.7 million this quarter, compared with a $4.3 million loss in the same period last year. ...