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The House Judiciary Committee has approved a four-year extension on a ban on taxing Internet services, endorsing what would be a mixed blessing to cable, telephone and Internet service companies that want Congress to make the ban permanent. The current moratorium, which is nearly a decade old, will ...

BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels. The ser...

Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope the stand-alone device will catch the fancy of users who shy away from computers. The always-on phone...

IBM and Google disclosed on an initiative the two technology heavyweights hope will help computer science students and researchers learn more about and gain experience in what has come to be known as "cloud computing." Ultimately, the goal is to create a new generation of software developers able to...

At first blush, the recent Podcast and New Media Expo held in Ontario, Calif., might have looked a bit frivolous -- there was a guy with bright blue hair, a woman in a burlesque getup posing for pictures, and someone in a pickle suit handing out promotional buttons -- but doesn't every trade show ha...

It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...

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Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2007 is You. To summarize their lengthy coverage of this topic, it's all "Web 2.0" technology that enables user-empowering Web tools and Web sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter, Pandora, Last.FM, Digg, and Del.icio.us. These We...

The explosive growth of pay-per-click search advertising has created an $8.2 billion industry led by Google, according to JupiterResearch. More than 60 percent of companies recently surveyed by JupiterResearch stated they intend to increase their spending on search advertising. This growth in sear...

Microsoft took the wraps off its latest entrant in the online business applications market Monday, announcing the creation and upcoming beta of its Microsoft Office Live Workspace. The software maker also revealed details about its "software services strategy and road map" for businesses. "This new ...

Battle for the Third Screen

America's "third screen" -- that is, the mobile market -- is at a crossroads. The direction it will go is anyone's guess, but IDC is advocating that Internet powerhouse Google should take a leading role in determining its path. Conditions are ripe for a strong player like Google to transform the thi...

Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center. Collectively called "Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center," the solutions are WiFi hardware devices that deliver video, high-definition TV, music...

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 han...

New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has 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 th...

Users of Pudding Media's free, new Internet phone service might want to watch what they say, because the system listens for keywords in their phone conversations and displays related ads on their computer screens. A consumer talking about movies, for example, may see links to trailers, reviews and s...

Hoping to ride the rising mobile Web wave, Fox Interactive Media is offering free mobile access to MySpace and several other sites. The free mobile Web versions of the sites will be supported by advertising instead of user subscription fees. However, the fee-based versions of the sites will remain a...

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