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It's difficult to find an industry that has had a harder time transitioning to the digital age than the print news media. It also would be tough to find an industry that inflicted so much damage on itself by making a single bad decision. When readers started gravitating to electronic platforms, most...

Microsoft is filing a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission as part of the commission's investigation into possible Google violations of European competition law. Google holds about 95 percent of the European search market. The complaint involves Google restraining competition by...

Amazon surprised the music world this week with the rollout of several products that will allow consumers to store and access their digital music in the cloud. Perhaps no one was more surprised, though, than the music studios, who appeared to have learned the details of the offering shortly before t...

The issue of whether online gambling should be legalized is once again being taken up in the U.S. Congress through a new bill designed to significantly overhaul the UIGEA, which it passed in 2006. The UIGEA makes it illegal for U.S. financial institutions to transfer money to offshore gambling websi...

Amazon on Tuesday announced a triple-play entry into the cloud-based music storage field. The online retail giant's trifecta consists of Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Amazon Cloud Player for Android. These three services let customers store music in the cloud and play it on any...

The Obama administration's program to more efficiently utilize information technology has worked -- but not well enough to get a passing grade from the U.S. Congress. Lawmakers are ratcheting up the pressure on federal agencies to improve their IT resource management -- including the way they procur...

Amazon's Android Appstore launched last week with an innovative approach to selling apps. Amazon Test Drive allows potential customers to try out the full-version of an app free for 30 minutes on a virtual version of an Android phone. Currently, Test Drive is limited to U.S. customers -- however, th...

Google may be working to let Android users make purchases using their mobile devices at retail points of sale. The company is rumored to be collaborating with MasterCard, Citigroup and VeriFone on a system based on near-field communications technology. The project would link Citigroup credit and de...

Businesses are constantly searching for ways to reduce costs and improve revenues. Mobile technologies can provide incredible value because they offer immediate business interactions from almost anywhere. Mobile payments can expand your sales channels by helping you meet customers where they are. Pr...

Those of us who have been around the IT block a few times have witnessed remarkable changes in hardware and software capabilities. The big ones are fairly obvious in hindsight: from mainframes to minicomputers in the 1960s; from minis to PCs in the 1980s; and from dumb terminals to client-server te...

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral par...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral par...