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Google will invest heavily in a green power initiative during 2008 and beyond, with the ultimate goal of developing a renewable energy source that creates electricity at a lower cost than coal, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Google's initiative, which it has dubbed "Renewable Energy Che...

Verizon Wireless will throw open the doors to its wireless network, the company said Tuesday. Until now, the second largest U.S. wireless carrier was keeping its network locked up tight to third-party developers. Beginning early next year, that will all change when the company intends to publish its...

Aiming to shrink its global carbon footprint, HP announced Tuesday that it has forged partnerships with two renewable energy firms to incorporate solar and wind energy into its operations. Through an agreement with SunPower, HP will install its first-ever, large-scale solar power system at its San D...

The president of South Korea will appoint an independent investigator to explore allegations that electronics and industrial giant Samsung Group had diverted money into a secret fund that was later used to bribe government officials. South Korea President Roh Moo-hyun announced in a televised news c...

Web portal Lycos has released its eighth annual list of the Top 50 most popular holiday season toys and games, and already a few online sales trends are becoming apparent in the realm of consumer electronics. The quality of video games continues to improve along with the increasing capabilities of ...

After years of relying mainly on its own Web site as an online sales vehicle for its airfares, discount carrier JetBlue changed course Monday, striking deals to allow third-party travel sites sell tickets for its flights. JetBlue announced distribution deals with Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and Pri...

With brick-and-mortar retailers reporting a blockbuster Black Friday, Internet merchants looked to counter with a strong Cyber Monday, with at least one analyst firm predicting sales would set a record by exceeding 2006 levels. Although Cyber Monday has come to stand for the virtual equivalent of Bl...

A week before it hosts a number of big Asian companies for an Arab-Asian Investment Conference, private equity company Dubai International Capital showed what's at stake by announcing it is buying a big chunk of Sony stock. The unspecified investment is coming from the $2 billion Global Strategic Eq...

For some people, November is all about festivity: turkey, cranberry sauce and the start of the long ramp-up to the December holidays. However, that's not always the case if you happen to be in IT security. If you are, you know that November can be anything but festive -- unless your idea of "festiv...

PlayStation Portable users will soon be saying good-bye to their old download service. Sony, maker of the PSP, announced Tuesday it has launched a new service, the PlayStation Store, for the PC from which PSP owners can purchase content directly. The current PSP download service will reportedly go d...

MoveOn.org, the civic and political action group best known for espousing Democratic ideals, has launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Facebook to change its privacy policy in the wake of a newly launched advertising program. Using a Facebook page and its own Web site, MoveOn is collecting signatu...

As enterprises rush to assess how they can benefit from service-oriented architecture, many naturally but mistakenly focus on the technological aspects of the solution. As an architecture, it's unfair to paint SOA as a panacea to independent software vendors' most daunting business problems. In orde...

When they sit at the dinner table Thursday, HP investors might want to utter a little "thank you" to HP chairman and CEO Mark Hurd. Under Hurd's guidance, HP has positioned itself for success. It proved the point this week when it revealed its fourth-quarter results. The San Jose, Calif., company be...

Some types of commerce are just not a match for the Internet. However, others -- including researching a new car -- caught on with online shoppers. The amount and types of information that can be conveyed online has brought car-buying to a whole new level -- yet few auto marketers are optimizing the...

It is becoming increasingly unsafe to buy or otherwise conduct business online, according to the ninth annual CyberSource survey on e-commerce fraud. Fraudsters will divert approximately $3.6 billion from U.S. e-commerce in 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006, based on survey results. Merchants ar...