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The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing data from its annual Internet Crime Report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 co...

Though the basic outcome of the Federal Communications Commission wireless spectrum auction has been known for some time -- Verizon Wireless and AT&T won major chunks of the spectrum while Google was shut out -- responses to the closely watched event came fast and furious Thursday as the anti-co...

As technologically advanced as we are in the U.S., we are still in the horse-and-buggy age when it comes to our medical records. A person's records are usually dispersed among a number of healthcare providers. This system is inefficiently fragmented and also dangerous for the patient. Just think: If...

Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them. The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than...

Looking to fill what it says is a gap in the consumer's toolbox, real estate site Zillow.com has launched a marketplace to connect home buyers with mortgages. Seattle-based Zillow -- best known for its home-price comparison offerings -- is hoping to do for mortgages what the Web has already done for...

Research In Motion posted strong earnings and sales growth in its fourth quarter. The positive news signals that it has not seen the Apple iPhone cut into the market share for its BlackBerry device and that adoption may continue to grow even amid a weakening economy. RIM beat Wall Street targets for...

If you consider the traditional quality assurance process -- in which QA is a set of tasks that occur in a serial fashion after development -- it becomes clear that many of the desired service-oriented architecture benefits such as agility, cost efficiency and higher quality are placed at risk. The...

EMI Music has recruited Google CIO Douglas Merrill to head up its growing digital music business, the company announced Wednesday. As president of EMI Music's digital business, Merrill will head a new global function that brings together for the first time leadership responsibility for all of the co...

Amazon.com launched a text-message shopping option Tuesday that enables users to search for, compare and buy products via short message service, in addition to its existing browser-based mobile commerce offerings. TextBuyIt joins Amazon's mobile site and a site dedicated for access with the iPhone i...

There are several steps to follow to ensure top rankings in search engines. Sites that follow these simple steps will likely see their traffic and search engine rankings soar through the roof. The better optimized your site is for the search engines, the better results you can expect. The following ...

Last Halloween, the intellectual property community was mesmerized by the preliminary injunction hearing on the motion filed by GlaxoSmithKline and others to enjoin the Patent Office on the very eve of enactment of new rules. As Judge James C. Cacheris granted the preliminary injunction, a quiet che...

Haven't seen "The Karate Kid" in a while? Soon, AT&T customers will be able to catch it on their mobile phones. On Monday, Sony Pictures Television said it is launching Pix, the first movie network for mobile TV in the U.S. The network, making use of Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology, will be avail...

Despite widespread belief it would dig deeper into its pockets if necessary to land Yahoo, Microsoft has no plans to sweeten its offer for the Web portal, according to published reports. Microsoft sees no reason to boost its bid at this time, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed ...

The government has temporarily banned IBM from attaining new contracts with federal agencies while investigators look into interactions between some company workers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees. The EPA issued a notice of temporary suspension related to an agency investigation ...

Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube and spotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue. Only after many months did other giant TV netw...