Heavyweights trading punches in digital face-off Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have been sparring with each other for years. This summer, the gloves have come off. (Page B5, 907 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 13, 2009

If you want an iPhone, you must subscribe to AT&T’s cellular phone network. But if you want to use your iPhone to make cheap Internet phone calls, you can’t do it over AT&T’s cellular data network. (Page B5, 1027 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 8, 2009

Freedom of an unlocked phone may not be worth it How would you like a free cellphone? It will cost you only $600. Granted, that is a loose definition of the word. “Free’’ usually means keeping our wallets folded. But for some, it means the freedom to use a cellphone with the carrier of their choice. (Page B7, 845 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 9, 2009

EMC Corp. has won the high-stakes bidding war for Data Domain Inc., with a rival data storage company, NetApp Inc., dropping out of the fight - two days after EMC boosted its bid to $2.1 billion. (Page B7, 533 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 9, 2009

Carbonite Inc. of Boston, which sells an Internet-based computer backup service for consumers, is getting a major marketing boost from Sun Microsystems Inc. , maker of the popular Java software system. (Page B6, 145 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 8, 2009

EMC aims to tap the best brains in computer science Even though EMC Corp. makes some of the world’s most advanced data-storage gear, the Hopkinton company is going back to school. (Page B5, 588 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 6, 2009

LogMeIn shares jump in first day of trading In its first day as a publicly traded company, LogMeIn Inc.’s shares climbed more than 26 percent from their opening-day price. The Woburn-based maker of software that lets users remotely control their computers sold 6.7 million shares at $16 in an offering backed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays Capital. (Page B9, 303 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 2, 2009

They’re superbly engineered marvels of technology, and I couldn’t imagine buying either of them. They’re the two coolest gadgets that have recently come this way: Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G S and the Kindle DX electronic book, from Amazon.com. Both are upgrades of highly successful products; neither is enough of an improvement to make sensible people grab for their wallets. (Page B7, 809 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 25, 2009

EMC raises stakes in bidding war EMC Corp. has jacked up its offer for Data Domain Inc. to more than $2.1 billion in its latest effort to win a bidding war against rival NetApp Inc. (Page B5, 524 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 7, 2009

One call rings them all . . . After years of wasting our time with built-in cameras, music players, and casual games, cellphone makers are finally giving us something we really need: one plug to charge them all. Next year, the world’s leading phone manufacturers will adopt a universal interface, so that one power adapter will charge any phone. (Page B7, 805 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 2, 2009

Software company plans IPO For the first time in more than a year, a venture-backed Massachusetts company intends to go public. (Page B5, 473 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 30, 2009

EMC Corp.’s hostile takeover bid to buy Data Domain Inc. is getting a 10-day extension. On June 2, EMC made a tender offer to buy shares of California-based Data Domain at $30 each. The tender was set to expire next Tuesday, but EMC yesterday said it would extend the offer to July 10. (Page B5, 224 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 27, 2009

Pop icon’s fans jam Internet sites The sudden death of pop star Michael Jackson not only stunned his fans, it also staggered the Internet. Major news sites were overwhelmed by so much traffic that many Web surfers couldn’t get through. (Page B6, 405 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 27, 2009

It’s easy to take thumb drives for granted. These cheap little chunks of flash memory, which plug into a computer’s USB port, are almost as plentiful as popcorn. I’ve got a plastic bag full of them at home, sent out as electronic press releases by various technology companies. (Page B7, 778 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 18, 2009

AOL, the troubled Internet company that is being spun off by parent company Time Warner Inc. , is buying itself a parting gift. It is acquiring a pair of start-ups, including one in Boston, that run websites featuring neighborhood news. (Page B5, 335 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 12, 2009

Data storage company EMC Corp. of Hopkinton may sweeten its $1.8 billion offer to buy Data Domain Inc., according to a published report. (Page B5, 414 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 13, 2009

EMC Corp. of Hopkinton has found a new ally in its bid to buy Data Domain Inc. Attorneys for the Police & Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit have filed suit against the Data Domain board in a Delaware court, saying it was wrong to reject EMC’s $1.8 billion, all-cash bid for the company. (Page B6, 178 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 17, 2009

Palm Pre is good, but it's no iPhone Nearly a week with a Palm Pre cellphone, and I've only placed a couple of calls. I've been too busy taking photos, reading the news, listening to music, playing games, watching videos, and reading the instructions. (Page B7, 876 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 11, 2009

Changing signals without much static Ruth Savage helped draw blueprints for the navigation system that carried the first men to the moon 40 years ago. But even Savage, now an 89-year-old retiree, couldn't figure out how to deal with this weekend's switch from the original analog system of television broadcasting to a new digital system. (Page B7, 1318 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 11, 2009

One day after it rebuffed a $1.8 billion takeover bid from data storage goliath EMC Corp. of Hopkinton, the board of Data Domain Inc. has had second thoughts. (Page B5, 717 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 5, 2009

Finding a way around Iranian censorship Derek Lowe and his Iranian-born wife were appalled by the violence that came in the wake of Iran’s disputed presidential election, and by the Tehran government’s attempts to censor news of the upheavals. And so they joined the protest, as best they could from their home in Acton. They decided to become members of the legion of Internet activists fighting ... (Page B7, 837 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 19, 2009

While thousands of television viewers struggled with the changeover to digital TV broadcasting, a major Boston TV station found that it wasn’t ready either. (Page B5, 393 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 17, 2009

Microsoft ups the ante When you're done reading this, go to Google.com and type in the word "bing." Next, go to bing.com, Microsoft Corp.'s new search service, and type in "google." (Page B7, 875 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 4, 2009

The digital wallet Banking by phone used to mean dialing a number and speaking with a teller. For Peter Kastner, 61, a consumer electronics consultant in Westport, it means whipping out his iPhone and touching an on-screen icon. (Page B5, 730 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Apr 29, 2009

Teradyne to lay off 65 Mass. workers Stung by continuing weakness in world markets for microchips, Teradyne Inc. of North Reading will lay off 11 percent of its global workforce, including 65 Massachusetts employees, and cut the pay of top executives. (Page B4, 245 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Apr 18, 2009