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The numbers are in, and user reviews of products have graduated from experiment to necessity. Consumers are relying on them to make buying decisions everywhere from consumer electronics to toys, and from food to beauty products. Moreover, shoppers aren't just checking the reviews to validate a purch...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that people have an expectation to privacy online and that the authorities can't just demand citizens' IP addresses from their Internet service providers without a grand jury warrant. The ruling was handed down in the case of a woman who was charged with hackin...

AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter. In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered $3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs ...

AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter. In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered $3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs ...

AT&T's wireless business unit was the main driver behind the telecom's eye-popping 22 percent increase in net income this past quarter. In line with analysts' expectations, AT&T registered $3.5 billion, or 57 cents a share, in Q1 earnings. Nonrecurring charges for the quarter included costs ...

Big business likely will be spending $4.6 billion a year on Web. 2.0 technologies by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research. Spending on Web-based enterprise technologies, including social networking, RSS, blogs, wikis, mashups, podcasting and widgets, will grow by 43 percent each year...

Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos. Not any more: Veodia offers a l...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based network security company Blue Coat Systems has reached an agreement to purchase Cupertino, Calif.-based bandwidth management company Packeteer for approximately $268 million, or $7.10 per share -- a 15 percent premium on Packeteer's closing price Friday of $6.18. The acquisit...

Voice over Internet protocol service provider Skype announced new and expanded calling plans Monday. The new offerings will enable subscribers to make calls to more than one-third of the world's population for a single monthly flat rate, the company said. The three new subscription plans come with n...

Since 2005, millions of citizens have been affected by reported and unreported data breaches at payment processors, banks and retailers -- but the nation was still stunned when news broke out about the TJX data breach. This has indeed been a larger problem than most recognize, with some 88 million c...

The video games industry racked up hardware and software sales of roughly $1.7 billion in March, according to NPD Group, a consumer sales tracking firm. Total sales in March 2008 were some 57 percent higher than the $1.1 billion the industry made just one year earlier. "You'd never know that the U.S...

Take-Two Interactive Software on Friday slammed Electronic Arts' lower bid for the company. EA on Thursday decreased its offer by 26 cents per share after Take-Two shareholders voted more shares for its top management, ZelnickMedia, at their annual meeting. EA also extended its tender offer by a mon...

Brushing aside concerns about a drop in paid click rates and sliding past estimates, Google posted results Thursday showing not only that it remains king of the online advertising space but that it can continue to grow sales and profits in uncertain economic times. Revenue at the search giant rose 4...

Renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydropower are increasingly becoming more popular. In fact, wind power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. Presently, there are about 30,000 wind turbines operating worldwide, and that number is increasing. While this is very encouragin...

A new fashion shopping site from Florida boutique La Ti Da is banking on personalized service to set it apart. Visitors to ShopLaTiDa.com, based in Boca Raton, are invited to complete an online profile including profession, style sense, body measurements, preferred designers and areas of shopping wh...