T-Mobile is one of the largest mobile network operators on the planet, and now it looks like getting a little bigger courtesy of France Telecom and Orange.

The latest victim of the global recession would appear to be the seemingly unstoppable mobile phone sector if the latest market forecasts are to be believed.

Twitter is the hottest Internet social networking property right now. Apple has a ton of spare cash. So are the rumours true, can Apple really be about to buy Twitter for US $700 million?

How does Yahoo! get the biggest boost in share prices for six months? By talking to Microsoft again, of course.

Not content with the massive €899 million fine levied on Microsoft last year, the European Commission is considering further action against the software giant. This time, Internet Explorer is at the heart of the issue.

A new report has identified Australia, New Zealand and traditional Asian Tiger countries as being at significant risk of an IT spending slowdown in 2009. Meanwhile, the new boom economies of China and India are believed to be relatively safe from the risk of spending cutbacks.

File under no surprise there then: the latest IDC EMEA Server Tracker figures, factory revenue in the EMEA server market has shown the biggest quarterly decline since 2005, and Western Europe is to blame.

Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has been walking around with a target on his forehead ever since turning down a Microsoft buyout deal which was worth more than triple the current market value. With the inevitable Yang resignation now a Yahoo! reality, will Microsoft get back into negotiations for the struggling search company?

Enterprise content management software company, Objective Corporation (ASX: OCL), has appointed David Schultz as Industry Solution Manager for Local Government.

File under: this has been a bad week for technology workers. As the economy continues to squeeze technology companies, staff are set to get crunched by swathing job cuts at BT, Sun and Yahoo!