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AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday. The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording la...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday. The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording la...

Microsoft will not appeal the 2004 ruling against it by European antitrust regulators any further and has reached an agreement to bring it into compliance with all aspects of the ruling's wide-ranging penalties. Microsoft had the option of appealing a ruling made in September by the Court of First I...

For those aspiring or already doing business as an e-tail merchant, there is no shortage of e-commerce software developers with shopping cart technology for start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses. The real difficulty may lie in choosing among them and then putting it to productive use. To ge...

They have been making their lists and checking them twice. As a result, consumers will soon learn which retailers have been naughty or nice in planning for their most important part of their year: the holiday rush. "So much of retailers' business rides on the holiday season that they want to be sure...

Two executives from Village Voice Media, parent company of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers, were arrested Thursday night on a misdemeanor charge for revealing in The Phoenix New Times that they had been subpoenaed for a raft of reporters' notes and documents as well as information...

September was a very good month for the console game industry, which recorded $1.36 billion in total sales in the U.S. for both video game hardware and software, according to the NPD Group. The big winner for the month was Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive, "Halo 3," which sold 3.3 million units. The t...

Amid a sea of largely positive technology earnings, Advanced Micro Devices posted mixed results Thursday, with acquisition costs denting profits even as the company shipped a record-high number of processors for a third quarter. AMD did manage to beat Wall Street estimates for revenue, posting sales...

The New England Patriots NFL football team now has customer information from ticket reselling service StubHub. The team gained access to a reported 13,000 records of people who purchased, sold or bid on Patriots tickets on the site after taking StubHub to court. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Al...

One quarter after delivering a rare earnings miss, Google promptly returned to form Thursday, trouncing analyst expectations with strong revenue and earnings growth for its third quarter. Google said profit rose 46 percent to $1.07 billion on a 57 percent rise in sales to $4.23 billion. It was the 1...

A group of heavy-hitting media and Internet players have hammered out a plan to thwart the uploading and Web publication of copyrighted material, particularly video clips. Key to the plan's effectiveness is technology that will determine if content being posted to Web sites, such as MySpace and Veoh...

The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." In recent months, the industry, through its trade organization, the Recording Industry As...

Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew more than 14 percent in the third quarter, according to two reports, with HP and Apple posting strong market share gains. PC shipments rose 14.4 percent in the quarter to 68.5 million units, according to Gartner. Rival market research firm IDC, meanwhi...

Sony is shuffling its Cell Broadband Engine deck chairs in an effort to cut losses related to production of PlayStation 3 game consoles and improve the units' efficiency and pricing. The company is selling to Toshiba its fabrication facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, a deal expected to take place by the...

A massive write-down in the value of its Skype Internet calling subsidiary sent eBay to its first quarterly loss in its nearly decade-long history as a public company, but the auction giant otherwise managed to beat expectations and boosted its outlook. eBay had warned it would take the hit on its S...