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In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-peer communications firm Skype, eBay said it would begin to offer sellers on its auction platform the ability to let buyers contact them using the Internet text and voice chat technology eBay is targeting the service, which it is billing as a pilot pro...
The converging Internet world may be about to see its latest head-to-head battle between Google and eBay, with reports suggesting Google is just days from launching a feature meant to rival the PayPal online payment system RBC analyst Jordan Rohan predicted Google will launch a program called GBuy on June 28th. Through GBuy, merchants can enroll in...
A Michigan teenager who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and flew to the Middle East to meet someone she met through her MySpace.com page is back at home, with her misadventure stirring renewed debate about the safety of social networking sites that target a young audience Katherine Lester, who will turn 17 later this month, was deta...
Several major technology companies -- including semiconductor maker Broadcom and Internet job site Monster -- disclosed Monday that they have established committees to investigate the handling of stock options grants as scrutiny of the practice spreads to include dozens of companies Also caught up in the frenzy to determine whether options were gra...
Qualcomm said Monday it had asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate what the wireless phone and technology maker says is widespread patent infringement by rival Nokia The move is just the latest legal maneuver between the two wireless rivals, which are locked in a battle over patents and other issues as they vie for the right t...
Regulators from the New York Stock Exchange are investigating whether short selling helped fuel the decline of Vonage (NYSE: VG) stock in the wake of the Internet calling company's disappointing initial public offering The NYSE sent letters of inquiry to investment bankers and others in an attempt to gather information on possible short selling, ac...
U.S. Internet companies and other advocates of guaranteed network neutrality suffered a setback Thursday when an effort to tack a net neutrality amendment onto a larger cable reform bill could not muster enough votes After several hours of debate, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 269 to 152 to kill an amendment to the Communications Opportun...
As lawmakers gear up to debate the notion of passing legislation to ensure so-called net neutrality, an alternative approach to create a two-tiered Internet -- something many Web companies say will put them at a disadvantage -- appears to be gaining momentum The House of Representatives was expected to begin debate Thursday afternoon on a bill that...
Sales of semiconductors will grow by nearly 10 percent this year as demand for smartphones and other consumer gadgets drive chip consumption, according to a new industry forecast In a report released Wednesday, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said worldwide sales of chips would rise 9.8 percent this year to US$249.6 billion. That repre...
Search giant Google may seek to alter terms of the agreement it made in order to conduct its Web search business in China. Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggested the move after admitting the company's decision to agree to censorship conflicts with its philosophy and famous "do no evil" motto Brin has acknowledged in the past that Google's deal wi...
For the second time in a month, Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit accusing Singapore-based computer and consumer device maker Creative Technology of infringing on its patents, including those behind the market-dominant iPod portable music player The suit from Apple comes after Creative, which is the second-largest maker of MP3 players in terms of ...
Adding a new twist in the music industry's search for the right way to sell digital tunes and prevent piracy, EMI Music said Tuesday it has agreed to become the first label to make its catalog available on an ad-supported peer-to-peer network EMI said it would make music from its catalog available on Qtrax, which bills itself as the world's first a...
IBM said Tuesday it would triple the amount it spends to build out its India operations over the next three years, spending US$6 billion to hire workers and build research labs and other facilities CEO Samuel J. Palmisano announced the planned investment during a speech to some 10,000 of IBM's 43,000 India-based workers, a presentation also attende...
Seeking to use a novel approach to the problem of patrolling the lengthy border between the U.S. and Mexico, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has proposed using remote cameras that would be connected to the Internet, allowing regular citizens the opportunity to help watch for border-jumpers Perry has proposed spending US$5 million to install surveillance came...
With its initial public offering stumbling badly out of the gate, VoIP provider Vonage (NYSE: VG) has been hit with a suit from a law firm representing shareholders, many of whom were customers who bought shares at a price higher than the stock is now trading The law firm of Motley Rice LLC said Friday it filed a suit in U.S. District Court in New ...
Microsoft could soon face another private antitrust suit after talks with Adobe broke down over the level of support Microsoft would include for portable document format (PDF) in its upcoming Office 2007 suite Reports say Microsoft expects Adobe to file suit, most likely in Europe, where regulators have taken a particularly hard-line stance against...
Number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has laid out an ambitious product roadmap, one that features it focusing on the growing market for notebook chips and increasing production overall as it bids to wrest still more market share away from Intel AMD's roadmap relies heavily on continued product innovation, with more high-powered, dual-core ch...
In a possible prelude to widespread Internet video offerings, Yahoo has revamped its online video site, creating television-like channels and offering users the chance to publish their own video where it can potentially be seen by millions Focused for now on enabling viral video to be widely seen, the new Yahoo Video combines uploading, browsing, c...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the search company has no plans to develop its own browser, squelching long-simmering rumors that it would develop an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer but stopping short of ruling it out entirely Speaking during a Webcast update with analysts on Wednesday, Schmidt said Google decides where to invest its rese...
Microsoft is considering making a bid to buy eBay, according to a published report, a move that could dramatically alter an e-commerce, Web portal and search space already in a state of flux The New York Post was the first to report that Microsoft had held talks about a possible merger but that anti-trust concerns had "cooled" the discussions....
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