Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word phone. 9 news.

ROYAL KPN NV, the largest phone company in the Netherlands, will reach nearly 500,000 customers for its television products this year, says Chief Financial Officer Marcel Smits. The company's share of the Dutch television market will be about eight percent, Smits said, according to Bloomberg News. Most of KPN's clients subscribe to Digitenne, which offers digital television for a monthly fee of 6.95 euros (US$10.15). "TV will be an important component of the revenue stream," said Smits. The Hague-based KPN is counting on new services such as television and calls over the Internet to make up for the loss of customers at its traditional phone business. KPN, which started offering Digitenne three years ago, aims to beat its initial goal of 10 percent of the Dutch television market, Smits said without being more specific. "They need new products to offset line losses, and TV is one of them," says Joris Franssen, a fund manager at Kempen Capital Management in

BAIDU.COM has teamed up with Huawei Technologies and Intel to strengthen its servers and search technologies to expand its lead in the domestic market over rivals including Google, Nasdaq-listed Baidu said yesterday. Baidu announced it will build a joint lab with Huawei to explore "next-generation" online search and test 3G-related mobile phone services, just one month after Google launched mobile search services in China. "Baidu has to break the bottleneck of the server capacity as the demand for search surges in China," William Chang, Baidu's chief scientist, said. "Baidu has to triple its existing capacity to reach the global level of services." In the third quarter, China overtook the United States to become the world's largest search traffic, with 10 billion hits per month, Baidu said. Baidu has launched a series of new services, such as an Olympics channel, game channel, Baidu TV and online music streaming (partnered with Rock Music Group).

The Denver phone giant unveiled its new strategy and a $1.8 billion equipment budget.

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The most important thing to consider when choosing a cell phone provider is whether there is good coverage in the areas you use your phone the most.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Alltel Corp. is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages.

Ribbit, a Mountain View startup officially launching today, is trying to bridge the telephone world and the Web by opening up its core technology to outside developers. The startup aims to give developers an easy way to integrate telephone tools into a...

It's not just the plane that soars when you travel overseas: phone bills have a way of taking off, too. Using digital plans to prepaid cards can limit your costs.

O2 is to trial an internet-based TV service next year after trialling a similar product in the Czech market, a test bed for the mobile phone company's wider ambitions.