Amazon.com rolls out a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones. Amazon TextBuyIt, which llets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 from anywhere their cell phones work _ including from inside physical stores.
US carrier Sprint Nextel says it is betting heavily on a touch-screen phone that appears to be the closest thing the US market has seen to Apple's vaunted iPhone. The Samsung Instinct will be available in June for a yet undetermined price.
Air France launches test flight allowing passengers to call on board its aircraft.The aircraft, a medium-haul 123-seater A 318, was scheduled to serve the Paris-Vienna, Munich-Paris routes, the company said.
ProtoStar has closed $245 million of debt and equity financing to complete the development of its second satellite for Asian DTH operators. The satellite, ProtoStar II, is expected to launch in early 2009 and will provide coverage to South Asia, South East Asia and Indochina.