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After months of battling over the extent to which Comcast was blocking user access to the P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent, the two companies have decided to work together to craft solutions to ensure full access. Comcast plans to work directly with BitTorrent and others in the Web services and I...

A few short months after their last joint venture to build a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax tanked, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are at it again. This time, they are holding talks with various partners, and reports are that they are trying to raise $3 billion for the project. The WiMax st...

Most organizations are under the misimpression that by simply maintaining a generic legal hold policy, they will avoid any adverse consequences in litigation. Those organizations are wrong. In fact, one could have a brilliant legal hold plan and still face sanctions if it fails to address the down...

A little less than two weeks after Electronic Arts offered Take-Two Interactive stockholders $2 billion in a hostile takeover bid, Take-Two's board unanimously urged shareholders to reject the unsolicited proposal Wednesday morning. Take-Two's board said the $26 per share price is "inadequate" and "...

Having watched its shares lose nearly half of their value in the last year and its cell phone business continue to languish among the also-rans in a crowded field, Motorola will split into two publicly traded companies, separating its mobile devices business from its broadband and mobility solutions...

Will you add me? Have you written on my wall? Are we LinkedIn? Social networks are not only changing the way we speak to our friends, they are influencing our actions and behaviors. There is no question that social networks are becoming the networking standard as e-mail replaced snail mail years ago...

Yahoo shares moved higher by more than 3 percent Tuesday after an analyst upgraded the stock, suggesting that Microsoft was likely to sweeten its offer for the Web portal. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney upgraded Yahoo shares to a buy on Monday, arguing that the strategic value of Yahoo made a more l...

The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared the way for competing satellite radio services to merge into one company amid fears that the combined service would create an unstoppable monopoly. Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio first announced intentions to merge in February of 2007 -- 10 y...

Content and advertising have enjoyed a longstanding, symbiotic, codependent relationship -- although not necessarily in the unhealthy sense of the word. Content publishers need advertisers to pay the bills while advertisers simultaneously need content to create traffic they hope to draw to their goo...

A storm building around a 15-minute online Dutch film critical of the Quran is emblematic not only of the growing ability of cyber forces to banish divergent views -- but also, more specifically, the utter unwillingness of domain name registrars to stand firm against those viral tides of protest. On...

Google has quietly unveiled a search-within-a-site feature on its main Web search engine, giving users the ability to refine searches before going to a merchant or publisher's page. The company launched search-within-a-site on March 5 after several days of testing, according to a posting to the offi...

In the midst of its hostile takeover bid for a rival company, video game firm Electronic Arts is losing one of its key executives. EA's chief financial officer, Warren Jenson, is leaving the company and will be replaced shortly, the company said. He has been with EA for six years. The announcement c...

Opening a new front in his yearlong push to prompt major changes at the top U.S. mobile phone maker, activist investor Carl Icahn is suing Motorola, asking a court to force the company to give him access to strategic plans and other documents. Icahn, who fell short in his effort to strong-arm his wa...

From our lobby windows, I can see the ongoing construction of the much-hyped Trump International Hotel & Tower. It is slated to be 96 floors tall upon completion, and with its sleek, stainless steel facade and glassy, closed curves, it will be the perfect complement to the city's ubiquitous skyl...

Only weeks after having won a digital format battle against HD DVD, Sony finds itself entangled in a legal fight over the technology behind Blu-ray. The ITC will hear a case filed by a retired university professor with a 50-year engineering career against Sony, Motorola and more than 25 other compan...