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Identity theft, a cyber-crime causing inestimable damage for scores of ordinary citizens, has prompted passage of the federal FACT Act Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, issued this year. Part of the FACT Act, the rule aims to combat the scourge of identity theft, which each year victimizes 8.3 million...

When it comes to properly managing and protecting critical enterprise data and information resources, Corporate America is stuck between two strongly opposing forces. The U.S. is world "cyber-crime" headquarters, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2007 Internet Crime Report. The term c...

The amount of click fraud decreased slightly in the first quarter, thanks in part to actions taken by Google and Yahoo, according to the latest Click Fraud Index by Click Forensics. The overall industry average click fraud rate was 16.3 percent in the quarter, which was down slightly from the 16.6 p...

Microsoft's Q3 earnings report is a mixed bag: Net income beat Wall Street expectations by 2 cents, and the company's projections for fiscal 2009 look solid. However, its Windows and Office sales were muted, and its outlook for the current quarter is disappointing. The result, perhaps not surprising...

Japan-based Toshiba reported a 95 percent drop in profit in the January-March fiscal fourth quarter, blaming its loss in the high-definition format war that pitted its HD DVD format against Sony's Blu-ray. Toshiba reported a profit of about $12 million for the quarter, compared with approximately $2...

The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust. Then there's the fact...

Shares of Motorola tumbled as the company reported a first-quarter loss on Thursday, based largely on lean mobile phone sales and an eroding market share of the competitive sector. Motorola shares have lost more than half their value in the last year. On Thursday, they were trading at $9.23, down 3....

Google unveiled its mobile image ad service, which allows publishers to create rich-media ads along with more traditional text ads for the relatively untapped mobile advertising market. The service, Mobile Ads, can also be tied with AdSense and like other Google products will use keyword targeting t...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe confirmed Wednesday it will release an official "Grand Theft Auto IV" bundle exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Available the same day the game launches, April 29, the "GTA IV" package will include the 40 GB model PS3, a Sixaxis wireless controller and, of course, ...

Amazon has posted Q1 earnings of $143 million, or 34 cents a share, and revenue of $4.13 billion, handily beating analyst predictions of 32 cents a share on revenue of $4.08 billion. These figures reflect the e-commerce giant's continuing sharp upward trajectory, with earnings rising 37 percent comp...

Well, Blockbuster has finally done it. After years of simply copying the Netflix business practices, it's definitely done something that Netflix is probably never going to do -- offer to buy Circuit City. I find Blockbuster's actions to be confusing and inconsistent. In their last quarterly call, Bl...

Subscribers to Microsoft's defunct MSN Music service will lose access to songs they purchased from the store in a few months. Microsoft informed MSN Music's customers via e-mail Tuesday that it plans to turn off the store's license servers, and that Aug. 31 will be the last day to move purchased mus...

Comcast has lied about how and why it blocks peer-to-peer Internet traffic, and may be lying in its promise to stop some of its practices by year end, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said during a hearing held by a Senate committee on the future of the Internet. The FCC shoul...

Yahoo posted a healthy rise in profits for Q1, an increase fueled in large part by a $401 million gain in the initial public offering of China's Alibaba.com. Net income rose to $542.2 million -- or 37 cents per diluted share -- from 2007 Q1's $142.4 million, or 10 cents per diluted share. The compan...

Forget the bricks and mortar for a minute, and just dream of owning a universal domain name identity in cyberspace, along the likes of priceline.com, food.com, creditcards.com or cheapflights.com, as such identities are valued in the tens of millions and continue to double in price every year. The e...