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To many telecommunications customers, the Universal Service Fund, or USF, is one of several hidden costs of making long-distance phone calls. It is one of a handful of government fees that appear on each month's phone bill. Currently, customers pay a monthly USF charge based on how much they spend on long-distance charges Now, however, the Federal...
Hoping to connect advertisers with a key youth demographic and pave the way for broader use of mobile marketing, Virgin Mobile USA on Tuesday said it would debut a program that lets pay-as-you-go members earn minutes by watching ads Virgin says its SugarMama service will be a way for users to earn more airtime minutes and for advertisers to build r...
Europe's highest court ruled Tuesday that an agreement calling for wholesale transfer of personal data on airline passengers to the United States is illegal, a ruling that emphasizes the shifting legal and moral framework for storing and sharing personal information The European Court of Justice, which sits in Luxembourg, essentially overturned a 2...
The U.S. Treasury said Thursday it will stop collecting a 108-year-old telecommunications tax assessed to support the brief Spanish-American War and offer tax refunds for the past three years The 3 percent federal excise tax applied to all long-distance calls since 1898, when it was put in place at a time when only the wealthiest Americans had acce...
A Congressional committee has backed a plan that would bar major telcos and cable companies from charging Web services companies to accept their traffic, giving the so-called Net neutrality campaign a welcome boost The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 20-13 to recommend a version of the Net neutrality bill to the full House t...
The two most prominent leaders of Enron, the energy company whose dramatic rise and fall become emblematic for one of the darkest chapters in U.S. corporate history, face life in prison after a jury issued numerous guilty verdicts against them Thursday Enron Chairman and founder Ken Lay was found guilty on all six charges against him, including con...
eBay and Yahoo announced Thursday they will work together on a range of fronts, including search and paid advertising, striking a deal that leverages each company's strengths and one that will undoubtedly send shockwaves across the Internet industry After several days of swirling rumors that the two Web giants were considering everything from partn...
The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a US$4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it StreamCast Networks filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founders of Kazaa, another peer-to-peer network. StreamC...
Google has taken the wraps off plans to sell video advertising online, an ambitious move that could unlock significant additional growth potential for the search giant The company said it will use a placement system that is similar to the AdWords platform in place for text and graphics ads, but will not place video advertising alongside search resu...
In a case that emphasizes the myriad ways for digital data to be compromised, files containing information on some 26.5 million U.S. veterans were taken from the home of a government employee during a burglary The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the breach Monday, but said there was no evidence that any data had been used illegally and sai...
From enterprise search to Web search, technology is rapidly advancing the ability of users to find information faster and with more accuracy than ever. While millions of dollars are being made on search, there's a strong case to be made that e-commerce search offers the most direct return on investment A stack of studies say e-tailers that upgrade ...
Google continues to gain market share in the search space, but its high-profile efforts to extend its reach into theportal realm have yet to succeed Outside of its search site, Google is still drawing relatively few visitors. It hasn't made a dent inYahoo's lead orMSN's second-place position, according to new reports. Market research firm Hitwise ...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled what it bills as the first ever pay-as-you-go personal computing service, a move that the software giant and a cast of industry partners hope can help bridge the digital divide by lowering financial barriers for millions of people in developing nations The technology, called FlexGo, borrows heavily from a successful app...
Despite being a well-established player, Yahoo can outgrow the overall Internet industry in coming years, company executives told analysts and investors this week Yahoo used its annual media day on Wednesday to paint an upbeat portrait of the company's future and to lay out a broad menu of new features it would offer its millions of users....
Security software maker Symantec filed suit Thursday against Microsoft, claiming the software giant infringed its patents and violated a contract between Microsoft and a firm that Symantec now owns Microsoft exceeded the limits of an agreement it had to use technology from storage software vendor Veritas by making its own competing software, Symant...
In the evolution of social networking, the purchase of MySpace.com by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in the summer of 2005 is considered a key turning point "Murdoch made a huge bet on MySpace and it's been headline-worthy ever since," Chuck Richard, vice president and lead analyst with interactive marketing strategy firm Outsell, told the E-Commerce ...
Blue Security, an Internet security firm that tried to fight spam with spam, has shut down after a prolongeddenial-of-service launched by the spammers it hoped to put out of business. The Israel-based company tried to use the tactics of spammers against it, using a system that automatically sent messages back to them, operating on the theory that ...
AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action The closely watched case involves a suit against AT&T ...
AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action The closely watched case involves a suit against AT&T ...
AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action The closely watched case involves a suit against AT&T ...
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