Spain's National Competition Commission has fined top telecommunications operators Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange a total of (EURO)120 million ($159 million) for abusing their dominant position and charging excessively high prices for texts and multimedia messages.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Tuesday that it has hired two new senior executives, including a marketing chief, as the company looks to regain market share lost to Apple's iPhone.

A Navy electrician who in 1966 spent just eight hours in Vietnam during a flight layover successfully argued that he may have been exposed to Agent Orange and that it might have caused his diabetes — even though decades of research into the defoliant have failed to find more than a possibility that it causes the disease.