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Google and Microsoft squared off as usual Thursday, but this time instead of the competitive battlefield, they met on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are weighing the question of whether Google's purchase of DoubleClick will create an unfair online advertising monopoly Representatives of both companies testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Co...
Hoping to burnish its image as an eco-friendly company, Dell said Thursday it would strive to become the first carbon-neutral maker of personal computers and other technology gear Dell plans to become carbon neutral in 2008, a year earlier than it had previously forecast, it said....
A demonstration by Motorola of Sprint's Xohm WiMax wireless broadband technology took place this week on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Accounts of the exhibition are likely to have DSL and cable Internet providers worried Journalists invited aboard the "Summer of George" filed generally upbeat reports about the on-deck performance of Xohm, whic...
Doomsayers may be fond of predicting the imminent collapse of the Internet under the weight of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications, but at least one infrastructure provider is on track to increase its capacity tenfold by 2010 VeriSign, which manages the critical infrastructure that handles registration and resolution traffic for the .c
Continuing the consolidation trend that is sweeping the video game software development industry, Activision announced Wednesday that it acquired Bizarre Creations, the independent UK-based game developer behind such titles as "Project Gotham Racing" and "Geometry Wars." The purchase gives Activision an in to the US$1.4 billion racing genre market ...
Thieves were able to breach the corporate databases of TJX Companies and steal millions of credit card numbers because the company retained too much information that was not properly secured, according to a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada TJX is the parent company of several discount retailers operating i...
Sharp's announcement Wednesday that it's launching Blu-ray disc recorders, including a model that sports a one-terabyte hard disk drive, has one catch for Americans planning early Christmas shopping: You can't get them because they're only being launched in Japan ...
Open source software provider Red Hat reported strong revenue growth for its second fiscal quarter and announced there are now more than 3,000 applications certified to run on its Enterprise Linux operating system The company saw US$127.3 million in revenue for the quarter, an increase of 28 percent compared with the same quarter last year and 7 pe...
The failure of a system controller card at an AT&T office in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday apparently caused a communications outage that grounded airplane flights and resulted in delays throughout the nation The interruption of communications occurred at 11:25 a.m. CDT at one of 20 air traffic centers run by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ...
Right smack in the middle of Microsoft's most important Xbox 360 game launch of the year, some "Halo 3" discs have been scratched before their unlucky owners ever got a chance to play them ...
A jury Tuesday delivered the second punch of a potentially staggering one-two legal blow to Vonage, finding the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider had willfully infringed upon patents held by telecom giant Sprint Nextel Jurors awarded Sprint US$69.5 million in damages -- the equivalent of an estimated 5 percent of its revenues during the ...
Among all of the great business concepts of the last few decades, the franchise model is among those consistently at the very top. Over the next decade, the introduction of hundreds of fresh, locally nurtured franchise concepts emerging in the Mideast will set the stage for a revolution of nouveau consumerism. So what are the key factors driving this movement?...
Consumers are beginning to embrace digital video recorders (DVRs) as they once did VCRs A scant two years ago, only one American household in 13 had one of the gadgets. Now they're in one in five homes, according to the latest figures from the Leichtman Research Group (LRG), of Durham, N.H....
Despite a press release by the defendant indicating its desire for a quick settlement, the licensing beef between BusyBox and Monsoon Multimedia is in fact still alive and well ...
Two separate exploits involving the Apple QuickTime and the Microsoft Windows Media players could continue to plague computer users regardless of which Web browser is installed as the default on a computer system So far, the only browser developer to announce a patch for this vulnerability is Mozilla, which posteda patch to its open source Firefox ...
New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into social networking site Facebook and its claims that it is a "safe" site, the AG's office announced Monday. At issue is the company's alleged failure to adequately respond to complaints from undercover agents working for the AG's office that adults on the site had sent inappropriate requests to underage users...
Customers who shop online at Walmart.com may soon have no way to speak with a live person over the phone to ask questions Thanks to a new "Customer Contact Reduction" program, the retailer by next week will remove its toll-free customer service support number, according to a Tuesday report in the New York Times. Instead, online customers will have ...
Even in a sleepy little college town in rural Idaho, a mere five-and-a-half hour drive from Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters, "Halo 3" is more than just a game. We don't get the attention of New York -- no ATVs decked out in green, no famous stars, Microsoft giveaways or spotlights tearing through the night sky -- but gamers still came out in droves...
After years of speculation and preparation, Amazon.com launched itsdigital music store Tuesday, debuting Amazon MP3 and promising a wide selection of music unfettered by DRM (digital rights management) restrictions The Seattle-based e-tail giant launched what it's calling a publicbeta of the download store with 2 million songs available from 180,00...
Having just agreed to buy Slingbox maker Sling Media, Dish Network parent company EchoStar Communications now is considering splitting itself into two distinct companies The Colorado-based satellite TV company wants to separate its consumer-based and wholesale businesses, a move it says will allow both to better prosper. The plan, if enacted, would...
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