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As it prepares to meet its customers' growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T's board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation's largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&...

As it prepares to meet its customers' growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T's board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation's largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&...

Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee stepped down Monday amid mounting pressure from investors of the telecommunication company, which said it would launch a worldwide search for its next leader. After days of rumors and published reports suggesting he was on the way out, Forsee announced he would leave th...

It's no secret that an awful lot of TV shows and movies can be found on file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and Kazaa. It's also no secret that the producers of those shows really, really hate it when people share them without permission. Is there a way for content makers to cash in on what is a c...

MSNBC Interactive, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, will buy Seattle-based startup Newsvine, a participatory news site that carries news from media outlets and from individual users who are paid for their writing. Newsvine uses the so-called "social model" of user-driven ranking of the new...

The legal saga of the first file-sharing lawsuit brought by the record labels to make it before a jury isn't over just yet. Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay $222,000 after a jury found her responsible for posting two dozen songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network, announced through her MySpace b...

Vonage saw its stock soar some 75 percent Monday after the Voice over Internet Protocol firm settled a patent infringement dispute with Sprint Nextel that gives it the right to use Sprint technology going forward. The settlement could help Vonage turn a punishing legal setback into a positive develo...

Once a consumer has committed to a purchase of a particular brand and model of product, maximizing the momentum of his Web research and purchase experience is a great opportunity for a manufacturer. However, it's also a tremendous challenge. Best practices have found that as consumers are searching ...

These days, just about every business -- from the corner store to Wal-Mart -- has a Web presence. While the Internet's vast expanse provides companies with the ability to reach more potential customers, it also pits them against more competitors than ever before. As a result, it has become increasin...

In one of the most sweeping domestic law enforcement actions against online child pornography in recent times, New Jersey officials arrested 41 people and charged them with possession or distribution of graphic images of child molestation. Dubbed "Operation Silent Shield," the roundup was the culmin...

A California state appeals court in San Jose has reinstated an age discrimination case against Google brought by former employee Brian Reid. A California Superior Court judge had dismissed the case in 2005. Reid sued Google in 2004 following almost two years of employment at the search giant, primar...

Business is booming at Research In Motion as regular consumers join their business-oriented brethren in snapping up the company's ever-expanding line of BlackBerry mobile devices. Second quarter revenue at RIM was up 27 percent from the first quarter and more than doubled last year's second quarter,...

The music industry emerged victorious in the first file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, with a federal court jury ruling a Minnesota woman was liable for swapping two dozen songs and ordered her to pay $222,000 to Capitol Records. The closely watched case ended Thursday after two days of testimony a...

We live in a Web 2.0 world, but when it comes to fighting Internet-borne security threats, many enterprises are armed with only Web 1.0 weapons, according to a study released this week by San Jose, Calif.-based Secure Computing. Web 2.0 usage is prevalent in enterprises, the study found, and as a re...

Yahoo, eBay and PayPal are teaming up to improve protections against phishing attacks, the companies announced Thursday. The companies have adopted a new e-mail authentication technology, developed by Yahoo and known as "DomainKeys Identified Mail," that uses cryptography to verify the domain of the...