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In one of the largest instances to date of widespread big-rigging on auction site eBay, eight sellers have been ordered to pay US$90,000 in fines and restitution after admitting to engaging in practices that artificially drove up the prices of their auctions The sellers began to pay restitution to buyers who ended up paying more than they needed to...
Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell US$536 million to settle a long-simmer private antitrust claim over its NetWare operating system, a deal that also calls for Novell to withdraw from the European antitrust proceedings against Microsoft Microsoft said the deal, which came about after lengthy private mediation, does not require it to license any Nov...
Verizon Wireless said it has reached an agreement to buy all the spectrum licenses held by NextWave Telecom for US$3 billion in cash, just the latest instance of consolidation in the wireless industry and one that ends a years-old legal dispute with regulators Verizon, the second-largest wireless carrier behind the newly merged Cingular-AT&T Wirele...
Microsoft is again pledging to improve the security of its software by starting to notify customers of upcoming patches. However, the promise came just as experts warned that attack code exploiting a known flaw in Internet Explorer has begun to circulate The US-CERT and Secunia said the newly discovered code attacks an as-yet unpatched flaw in Inte...
Joining forces in the hope of advancing a strategy both companies have been plotting for some time, Microsoft and Intel have said they will work together to promote cutting edge digital home entertainment options Dubbing the effort "Digital Joy," the companies said they would launch a television, print, online and cinema-based advertising campaign ...
Hundreds of separate instances of electronic voting problems were reported in the U.S. during yesterday's elections, enough to give critics of e-voting ammunition for their continued battle against its use, but not nearly enough to affect the outcome of the election, as some had feared In a press conference late yesterday, representatives from the ...
New data shows the popularity of alternative browsers continues to erode the overwhelming market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, even before the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox, which formally hits shelves next week The latest data from Web analytics firm WebSideStory shows that the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, both of which are produc...
Interactive marketing firm DoubleClick said it has hired an investment banking firm to help it examine strategic options, including a possible sale of all or part of the company In a brief statement, DoubleClick said it had tapped Lazard Freres & Co. to "explore strategic options for the business in order to achieve greater shareholder value, inclu...
Among the many questions that might be answered by the presidential election on Tuesday is whether electronic voting can silence its critics by turning in a seamless performance or, instead, will fall prey to any of the number of concerns that have been raised This week, a number of major e-voting machine vendors submitted millions of lines of soft...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revived its long-running campaign to stem file-swapping through legal action, suing 750 alleged file sharers across the U.S. for copyright infringement The latest batch of suits included 25 users on 13 university campuses around the country and like past batches focuses on users of peer-to-pe...
A group of tech heavyweights have joined forces to push a mobile security specification they say will clear the way for a boom in m-commerce Wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo, chipmaker Intel and IBM said the spec they call "Trusted Mobile Platform" will protect mobile devices against viruses and other attacks and make transactions done on them more secu...
Yahoo has launched a mobile version of its Web, image and local search offerings, a move that opens up a new and wireless battlefield in the search engine wars At least initially, Yahoo's mobile search will be stripped of content-relevant ads from its Overture paid listings business, a sign that analysts saw as a desire by the portal to build a cus...
Aiming to keep all-important software developers eager to work on its platform and to stay ahead of Java-based rivals, Microsoft is laying the foundation for what it sees becoming "software factories" where specific applications can be quickly customized from a base of existing code The software giant unveiled some early stage previews of what it a...
Hoping to revive its approach to using sender identification to curb e-mail spam, Microsoft announced it has tweaked its Sender ID specification and that leading Internet service provider America Online has agreed to back it Less than a month after a lack of consensus about the prudence of making Sender ID a widely used standard brought a working g...
Intel plans to use novel materials and manufacturing processes in order to continue to develop smaller and faster computer chips once current technologies no longer do the trick The leading chipmaker, which has been stung recently by some near-term product retreats and operational hiccups, laid out its research and development priorities for the ne...
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitrust implications of the US$41 billion mega-merger, also ...
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitrust implications of the US$41 billion mega-merger, also ...
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitrust implications of the US$41 billion mega-merger, also ...
In a move that seems to promise a brutal battle with Google and Microsoft over development of the best Web-based e-mail offering, Yahoo said today it had acquired a startup that offered a searchable e-mail system Yahoo did not disclose what it paid for privately held Stata Labs of San Mateo, California. Stata launched its main product, an e-mail pr...
Search engine and tech darling Google did exactly what everyone expected in its first earnings report since going public in August: It blew away estimates and posted triple-digit profit growth as its core search-advertising business continues to expand rapidly -- sending its stock price soaring Google said it brought in US$805.9 million in the thir...
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