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Fresh off an ambitious wireless spectrum auction that could help create a new marketplace for high-speed wireless services, the Federal Communications Commission will soon consider another auction with a significant twist that could help close the digital divide. The new spectrum sale would come wit...

Dell turned in a strong first quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts and prompting investors to buy up its shares on the hopes that the founder's turnaround plans are beginning to bear fruit. Thanks largely to vigorous sales of notebook PCs in the U.S. as well as international sales, Dell posted rev...

The current economy in the U.S. has put tremendous strain on many companies, particularly startups. Usually, our firm gets very few inquiries from companies that are facing bankruptcy and are looking for strategies, options and alternatives to bankruptcy. Lately, however, that seems to have changed....

Software security breaches add up in recent headlines alone: $13 million in losses; 45.6 million credit cards stolen; recovery costs at $256 million dollars and mounting; and companies driven into bankruptcy or out of business. Financially motivated targeted attacks are becoming more prevalent, and ...

Amazon.com will launch a new streaming video service in the next "several weeks," CEO Jeff Bezos said Wednesday. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's three-day D6: All Things Digital conference in California, Bezos also said his company is "very serious" about music and movies, and is currently rea...

In a nod to the growing need to track mobile users for marketing purposes, Internet research firm comScore has acquired M:Metrics, a top provider of mobile user data, for $44.3 million in cash and 50,000 stock options. The deal extends comScore's measurement and research reach beyond the traditional...

Selling Facebook to Microsoft would not be the best way to fulfill its mission of enabling people to connect with one another, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the social network. During the D6: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Zuckerberg was asked whether he would consider...

Companies in the SMB market segment often don't have the expertise or financial resources to formulate and then implement formal business continuity and disaster recovery plans like larger enterprises. In a recent Aberdeen Benchmark Report, Business Continuity: Implementing Disaster Recovery Strateg...

The patchwork system of digital commerce laws adopted in recent years is showing signs of wear as Viacom's $1 billion suit against Google moves forward. Last year, Viacom filed its complaint in a U.S. District Court, alleging that Google owed it damages for purloined content that had made its way on...

Enterprise application integration services will emerge as the biggest opportunity in the Asia-Pacific IT marketplace, excluding Japan, between now and 2011, according to a forecast by Springboard Research. Defined as "the integration -- typically across varied platforms and applications -- of an en...

A group of Belgian newspapers that won a court ruling against Google last year over its practice of linking to their content is now asking a court to award up to $77 million in damages. Copiepresse reportedly asked a Brussels court to force Google to pay between $51.5 million and $77 million in dama...

Intel and Grameen Trust are joining forces in an effort to bridge the financial and digital divides separating many of the world's most wanting from basic services and economic opportunities. Joined via video link by Grameen Trust founder and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Intel Chair...

The current and unavoidable recession that is impacting the United States, slowly affecting Canada and Mexico and spreading its wings toward the farthest corners of the world, is nothing to be either afraid of or surprised by. It is just one of those cycles that appears every decade or so. Some will...

The going is tough and the competition fierce, but opportunities are out there for small and medium-sized businesses looking to build businesses more global in scope than ever before. A lot rides on their choice and use of enterprise-wide applications -- software that supports core business function...

"Quit while you're ahead" is one nugget of conventional wisdom that few CEOs appear to heed, at least judging by the number of executives who have left companies at the behest of shareholders -- or, worse, regulators. Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, however, appears to be an exception. Sarin, who has been ...