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The industry groups representing movie and music studios have joined Internet2, a consortium using higher-speed networks in college campus settings, saying they would examine possibilities for new content distribution models The move by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) comes j...
Oracle has agreed to buy Siebel Systems in a deal worth US$5.8 billion, continuing an acquisition spree that began with the controversial takeover of PeopleSoft and has included a number of smaller companies since Oracle said the deal would make it the world's top vendor of customer relationship management (CRM) software, surpassing bitter rival SA...
Broadband ads are coming fast and the online marketing industry hopes to be ready This fall, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) will release a final set of guidelines and specifications for online ad formats that take advantage of broadband speeds to deliver multi-media marketing messages....
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR), saying that its Internet property listing policies deprived consumers of choice and possible savings In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the DOJ said that even a recently revised policy for online listings from the assoc...
PalmSource, the mobile software maker that has seen its share of the hand-held market eroded by smartphones and other competitors, has agreed to be purchased by a Japanese software firm in a deal worth about US$324 million Access, best known as the maker of the NetFront mobile device Web browser, said it had reached a deal to buy the makers of the ...
With sights set on becoming a major Web player, News Corp. said today it would buy IGN Entertainment, a site where some 28 million gaming fans visit for new software, gaming tips and other features, for US$650 million in cash IGN and related sites -- which operate under names such as GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, Rotten Tomatoes and AskMen.com -- ...
EBay is reportedly in talks to buy VoIP innovator Skype Technologies in a deal that could be worth as much as US$3 billion. One analyst says the deal could immediately help the company leverage its base of loyal users to extend its reach well beyond e-commerce The Wall Street Journal reported today that eBay was in talks to buy Skype, whose person...
In the latest chapter of what's become an epic legal battle, Microsoft has filed suit against the European Union, hoping to have a court provide guidance on what parts of its source code it must reveal Microsoft filed with the Court of First Instance for review of a provision of the sweeping anti-trust penalties levied against the software giant la...
Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became available According to Chart-Track, which uses electroni...
The comparison shopping and shopping search business has been around for a while. Like many other corners of the Internet business, it's seen more than its share of businesses come and go Now it seems that 2005 may well be the year the niche found its ways into the big time. Most of that change has come through acquisition. EBay's US$620 million pu...
Controversial plans in the U.S. and the UK to institute national identification cards as a way of curtailing identity theft will likely only lead to different versions of the same crimes, according to a researcher The UK researcher also says that consumers will consider national ID cards to offer strong protection, which may give a false sense of s...
As heart-wrenching images of devastation and despair from New Orleans and others parts of the Gulf Coast of the U.S. continue to rivet Americans from coast to coast, computer security experts are warning that scammers have already devised elaborate phishing attacks and other online scams meant to target the outpouring of response to hurricane Katrina...
In a blow to Microsoft and a strong vote of support for open-source software, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is putting in motion a plan to abandon the use of the Microsoft Office suite of desktop productivity applications in favor of an open-source approach that may make it easier to share documents The state announced this week that after a le...
Google is raising eyebrows by probing for opportunities outside the digital world for the first time ever, announcing it would conduct a test of a program to re-sell print advertising space to customers of its online marketing programs Google has purchased space in next week's issues of PC Magazine and Maximum PC magazine with the intention of re-s...
Reviving an issue that has dogged the e-commerce industry since its earliest days, at least 18 states are stepping up efforts to collect sales taxes from online merchants, likely meaning more Web shoppers will be paying at least a little extra during the key holiday season As part of a push to let merchants -- primarily those with brick-and-mortar ...
In a move that helps it keep pace and push ahead of rivals such as Google and could help it take on pure voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies such as Skype and even traditional telecom companies, Microsoft said it would buy privately held Teleo for an undisclosed sum San Francisco-based Teleo provides both software and services that enable...
Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of messages, an outgrowth of the race to provide nearly unlim...
If you've ever bought software directly off the Internet, the chances are good that Digital River had a hand in it. The e-commerce company helps many software publishers, retailers and others by managing online sales operations, helping to sell software in the most cost-effective way possible Today, Digital River (Nasdaq: DRIV) rarely finds a custo...
Shareholders of StorageTek have approved the sale of the company to Sun Microsystems, helping the buy clear the last major hurdle and turning attention to Sun's ability to effectively integrate the US$4 billion purchase More than 99 percent of shareholders who voted cast ballots in favor of the merger, despite some early grumbling when the deal was...
In a move that helps it keep pace and push ahead of rivals such as Google and could help it take on pure voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies such as Skype and even traditional telecom companies, Microsoft said it would buy privately held Teleo for an undisclosed sum San Francisco-based Teleo provides both software and services that enable...
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