Reuters - PayPal, the world's largest supplier of online payment services, is preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile telephones, the company said on Wednesday.

AP - A Kansas meatpacker has sparked an industry fight by proposing testing all the company's cattle for mad cow disease.

AP - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday offered "free, unlimited technical support" to rivals interested in making their software work with Microsoft servers, calling it a sign that it is seeking full compliance with an EU antitrust ruling.

AFP - Microsoft said it has delayed release of its latest operating system to consumers and small businesses to January so it can refine the software without interfering with the Christmas sales season.

Microsoft plans to delay the consumer launch of its new Vista operating system until January 2007.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Paris, France (AHN) - The French parliament will give consumers more choices over music downloads from the internet. According to a BBC report, MPs backed a draft law to force Apple, Sony and Microsoft to share their proprietary copy-protection systems, in...

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Paris, France (AHN) - The French parliament will give consumers more choices over music downloads from the internet. According to a BBC report, MPs backed a draft law to force Apple, Sony and Microsoft to share their proprietary copy-protection systems, in...

NewsFactor - Global communications giant Deutsche Telekom announced plans to collaborate with Microsoft to deliver Internet-based television services to consumers across Germany. The contract includes plans for an array of interactive services and entertainment content provided over Deutsche Telekom's broadband systems.

Reuters - Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens on Monday said he is considering a mechanism in which the Federal Communications Commission would be charged with ensuring that consumers can go wherever they choose on the Internet or run any Internet-based application.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Pleasanton, CA (AHN) A national independent study of consumers has shown that online consumer direct lender, E-LOAN is ranked as one of the top three most trusted companies in the United States for privacy, alongside worldwide brands Procter and Gamble and...

Reuters - Telecommunications executives are banking on big revenue increases during the next few years from new mobile phone services, but getting customers to pay more may not be so easy, according to a report released on Monday.

In 2005, 1.7 million Americans filed for bankruptcy. Bankruptcies have consistently risen over the past 10 years. This rise in bankruptcy is due largely to consumers not properly managing their debt. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2006]

USATODAY.com - No one is cheering harder for this year's NCAA tournament than the advertisers who are spending more on TV and online than ever before to capture affluent and effusive college hoops fans. Online is a formidable player this year as advertisers seek to reach consumers anywhere, anytime and on any device.

In 2005, 1.7 million Americans filed for bankruptcy. Bankruptcies have consistently risen over the past 10 years. This rise in bankruptcy is due largely to consumers not properly managing their debt. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2006]

Reuters - The U.S. cable industry on Wednesday launched a fresh attack against efforts by U.S. regulators who are pressing them to sell channels individually, or a la carte, refuting a study that said consumers could save money that way.

Faster chips may close the performance gap with AMD, but benefits for consumers are less clear. By Bruce Gain.

AP - The nation's three major consumer credit bureaus have created a new credit scoring system designed to make it easier for financial institutions to evaluate loan applications and to give consumers a better way of measuring their financial health.

Reuters - U.S. oil company executives went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to explain their companies' billions in record profits that have sparked public outrage and to answer concerns about what they plan to do to ease high gasoline costs for consumers.

AFP - US retail sales fell 1.3 percent in February as consumers retrenched following a spending spree in the prior month.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington (AHN) – Tax time can mean scam time and the IRS is warning consumers to be alert. The IRS says that e-mail purporting to be from the tax collector may be an identity theft scam. One IRS commissioner says, "more thieves are trying to take...